Tips for Effective & Healthy Communication

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (U.S.)
• Description:
  Healthy communication is a balancing act in any relationship. Healthy communication means feeling heard, understood, and respected while also being able to listen to, understand, and respect what the other person is saying.
  
  How well we communicate has a major impact on our interactions with others. Communication skills affect our ability to prevent or resolve conflict, connect, and build or break trust in a relationship.
  
  Practicing these nonverbal and verbal skills can help you have more productive conversations with others and provide a positive example for the teens you work with on a daily basis. It is also important to teach and encourage youth to use these skills in everyday life. Below are overviews of nonverbal and verbal communication skills – both types of skills should be utilized together for the most effective and healthy communication.
  
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  DM_Tips_508.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Behavior Communication Courtship Violence/prevention & Control Violence/psychology
• Series:
  Dating Matters
• Document Type:
  Still Image
• Name as Subject:
  Dating matters ; Dating matters
• Genre:
  Poster
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
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