Intentional Interviewing & Counseling: Facilitating Client Dvpt. Multicultural Society 8/E 2014 (IE)

Master interviewing skills with INTENTIONAL INTERVIEWING AND COUNSELING: FACILITATING CLIENT DEVELOPMENT IN A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY, International Edition. This book gives you the tools to adapt your skills to address both individual and multicultural uniqueness, conduct interviews using five different theoretical approaches, and begin developing a personalized style and theory of interviewing and counseling that matches your own aptitudes and affinities. Case studies, sample interviews, and a “Portfolio of Competencies” are just a few of the many tools that will help you master the material and become a better listener.

Features

INTENTIONAL INTERVIEWING AND COUNSELING: FACILITATING CLIENT DEVELOPMENT IN A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 8th Edition, with its Microskills model, is the most thoroughly researched and classroom-tested counseling skills text available. In this edition, every chapter has been reviewed to further enhance clarity and relevance, and to integrate updated research findings.

The popular five-stage interview structure—relationship, story and strengths, goals, restory, and action—integrates these concepts and helps students understand and utilize microskills more effectively. The model also makes is easier for students to generalize the five stages to multiple theories and practices in human relations, social work, counseling, and psychotherapy.

Integration of cutting-edge neuroscience includes discussion of the specific impact of neuroscience on interviewing practice. An appendix describes additional practical implications.

The book’s interactive, dialogical view of the interview illustrates how the language and brain of both counselor and client are changed throughout the process. This coverage helps students understand the concepts of consciousness, short-term memory, and how their skills can help the client move new thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to long-term memory.

Readers are shown, step by step, how to conduct effective motivational interviewing counseling, assertiveness-training sessions, decisional interviews, and person-centered interviews.

The text helps students master listening and influencing skills, integrate these skills into full interviews, and develop beginning mastery of various approaches to theory. It also illustrates how students can sharpen their observation skills and use those techniques for self-observation and client observation.

Ethics and multicultural understanding form the foundation of the Microskills hierarchy and students are encouraged to consider these issues throughout the text. Wellness and positive psychology are added to this foundation, including specifics for conducting a wellness assessment.

The “Portfolio of Competencies” provides students with a wide variety of exercises and assessment systems, helping them to examine themselves and their orientation to theory and practice.

Each chapter features a sample interview with detailed process notes, research boxes that show the background of important skills, case studies and examples, and boxes and tables that outline key messages in more detail.

Multicultural issues and competencies are constantly emphasized in this text, the first to recognize cultural differences in the counseling process.