Interviewing and Change Strategies for Helpers

Cormier (counseling, rehabilitation counseling, and counseling psychology, West Virginia U.) et al. provide helpers in professions such as counseling, social work, psychology, and humans services and related fields with a guide to interviewing and change strategies. They cover core skills and attributes; diversity and ecological models; evidence-based assessment and practice and effectiveness; and critical thinking and ethical practice. This edition has been streamlined into 15 chapters. It has more focus on working with diverse groups; a new chapter on the foundation of core skills and attributes and evidence-based practice; new frameworks for working with diverse populations; and new sections on out-of-session client communication, deliberate and inadvertent therapist self-disclosure, validation via dialectical behavior therapy, distractions, the sequencing of influencing responses, the levels of validation and their relationship to empathy, informed consent, the use of genograms to assess social networks and family history, characteristics of well-constructed goals, and the use of interview questions to assess individual and environmental strengths and resources. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)