Full Description
An excellent guide to interviewing in the helping professions, ESSENTIALS OF INTENTIONAL INTERVIEWING, International Edition delivers a more concise and accessible version of the Iveys' bestselling INTENTIONAL INTERVIEWING AND COUNSELING. Ideal for beginning helpers, the Second Edition retains the authors' proven Microskills model of teaching vital interviewing skills step by step. Its multicultural focus reflects the diverse nature of today's society. It also integrates the five systems of helping-person-centered, decisional counseling, brief counseling, crisis counseling, and coaching-and includes new content addressing such critical topics as psychoeducational skills and Internet counseling.
Contents
1. Skilled Interviewing and Counseling.2. Ethics, Multicultural Competence, and Wellness.3. Attending and Observation Skills: Basic to Communication.4. Questions: Opening Communication.5. Encouraging, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing: Skills of Active Listening.6. Observing and Reflecting Feelings: A Foundation of Client Experiencing.7. How to Conduct an Interview Using Only Listening Skills.8. Supporting While Challenging: Confrontation.9. Focusing the Interview: Exploring the Story From Multiple Perspectives.10. Reflection of Meaning and Interpretation/Reframing: Helping Clients Restory Their Lives.11. Self-Disclosure and Feedback: Bringing Immediacy Into the Interview.12. Logical Consequences, Information/Advice, and Directives: Helping Clients Move to Action.13. Decisional Counseling, Skill Integration, and Developing Treatment Plans.14. Integrating Microskills With Theory: Person-Centered, Cognitive-Behavioral, and Brief Counseling.
