Interpersonal Communication: Barriers, Skills and Resources for Communicating with Children Group

Running Head : INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION
Interpersonal Communication
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Introduction
Communication is the most important aspect of living among people. It means an
exchange of information between two or more than two people. It is a process through which
people do exchange feelings, information and meaning through either verbal or non-verbal
messages. Most of the interpersonal skills can become grouped under many forms of
communication such as verbal, non-verbal, written and others. Some of the skills such as stress
recognition and attitudes are pretty important to almost all types of interpersonal communication
(Manias et al.,2018). It can be easily improved through feedbacks, knowledge and practice. It
takes place when two or more than two people are well concerned about the presence of each
other. It can be in the form of gesture, speech , dress, expression of the body. It is the essential
factor that it must be a message sent to the receiver by the sender (Giles, 2016). The online
conversation has become one of the most commonly used medium of communication especially
for the official purpose. In this report, children group will be selected and the barriers in
worming with this group will be described. The report will further demonstrate a clear
understanding of the communication skills needed for proper communication with the children
group. It will lastly recognize all the applicable resources helpful in communication with the
chosen group.
Discussion
Barriers of working with the children group
There are professionals who face various difficulties during working with children
group.

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 The barriers are mainly created by the diagnosis of the child’s mental health as many
children have had faced hardships such as abuse, poverty, instability and other
unfortunate circumstances. Children may feel scared, stigmatized and alone too
(O’Sullivan & Carr, 2018).
 It can also be difficult to build rapport with children. This is because many children may
have had some expected traumatic experiences by other adults in their lives.
 They also might have trust issues and might not want to talk to people.
 It is difficult for children to understand the concept of transparency. Hence, they might
not tell everything clearly whatever is asked to them.
 There can be difficulties in understanding and interpreting some symbolic gestures of
children. It is complex to grasp the nuances of expression and words along wth their body
languages.
 There can also be difficulties in understanding the cultural norms in communicating with
children. There are some cultural norms regarding the appropriate forms of expression
such as eye contact, physical touch vary country wise and culture wise (O’Sullivan &
Carr, 2018).
The communication skills needed for communicating effectively with children group
In the business or social context, communication is the right of every human being.
Communication supports the people in the business to take proper decision through supplying
exact information to the right person at the right time. There is development of co-operation and
mutual understanding between people (Winter et al., 2016).It develops an atmosphere of
confidence and mutual trust. The ability to communicate with children effectively is extremely
important for gaining information. It is also necessary to communicate her or his concerns, or to