Listening Across Lives

Molly Stoltz is currently teaching communication courses at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, MD. One of the highlights of her previous position at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, GA, was teaching a stand-alone listening course. Her interest in the field of listening began when she decided to write a dissertation in which she developed her own model of listening. She has a particular interest in listening in the spiritual and religious context. She has been a member of the International Listening Association since 2009 and been published in the International Journal of Listening. Karen Sodowsky is an Associate Professor of Communication at Valdosta State University in Georgia. She teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in the area of interpersonal, intercultural, and health communication. Her appreciation for listening developed in the fifteen years she spent working as a medical social worker in home care and hospice. During this time she came to appreciate the importance of listening to patients and family members and saw the problems that occurred when listening skills are not present in health care interactions. Carl M. Cates is Dean of Liberal Arts and a professor of Communication Studies at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Previously he served across 23 years as faculty member and department head of Communication Arts, then as associate dean of the College of the Arts at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia. He is the former Executive Director of Southern States Communication Association. He has taught courses in listening, interviewing, organizational communication and qualitative research methods.

Preface
About the Authors
Chapter 1 – Contextualizing Listening
Chapter 2 – Why Some People Won’t Can’t Listen: An Introduction to Listening Disorders and Barriers to Effective Listening
Chapter 3 – Listening In(T)o Close Relationships
Chapter 4 – Listening across Cultural Diversity
Chapter 5 – Listening Across Spiritual and Religious Diversity
Chapter 6 – Listening in Leadership
Chapter 7 – Listening in the Organizational Context
Chapter 8 – Listening Across Technologies
Chapter 9 – Listening in Interpersonal Health Communication
Chapter 10 – Listening in Education
Glossary
Index