Description
This text is specifically designed to meet the needs of those teaching and learning interviewing and diagnostic skills in clinical, counselling, and school psychology, counselor education, licensed clinical social workers, and other programs preparing mental health professionals.
It offers a rich array of practical, hands-on, class- and workshop-tested role-playing and didactic exercises. The profiles included throughout provide students/trainees with a wealth of information about each client's feelings, thoughts, actions, and relationship patterns on which to draw as they proceed through the different phases of the initial interview, one playing the client and one the interviewer. Each client profile is followed by exercises thathighlight attending, asking open and closed questions, engaging in reflective listening, responding to nonverbal behavior, making empathetic comments, summarizing, redirecting, supportively confronting, and commenting on process. This second edition is based on the new diagnostic system (DSM-5-TR) and all profiles and case examples are updated. Throughout, the author emphasizes the importance of understanding diversity and respecting the client's perceptions, and of reflecting on the ways in which the interviewer's own identity influences both the process of interviewing and that of diagnosis.
This text is essential for both students and practitioners of clinical psychology, counselling, psychiatry, nursing, social work, and other allied professions.
Table of Contents
Preface for Instructors/Supervisors Preface for Students/Trainees Section I: Introduction 1. Interviewing Skills Highlighted in the Text 2. Highlighted Diagnostic Practice 3. Violence and Trauma Section II: Adult Profiles for Use in Individual Sessions 4. Presenting Issues: College Adjustment, Academic Pressure 5. Presenting Issues: School Performance, Health 6. Presenting Issues: Parenting Young Children, Identity Shift 7. Presenting Issues: Hallucinations, Substance Abuse 8. Presenting Issues: Depression, Anxiety 9. Presenting Issues: Survival Guilt, Career Confusion 10. Presenting Issues: Anxiety, Pressure from Family and Friends 11. Presenting Issues: Substance Abuse, Employment 12. Presenting Issues: Marital Difficulties, Life Changes 13. Presenting Issues: Aggression, Drug Use Section III: Child and Teen Profiles for Use in Individual Sessions 14. Presenting Issues: Eating Disorder, Emerging Sexuality 15. Presenting Issues: Social Alienation, School Failure 16. Presenting Issues: Divorce, Shared Custody 17. Presenting Issues: Single-Parent Family, Acculturation 18. Presenting Issues: Racial Prejudice, Drug Use 19. Presenting Issues: Death of Father, Academic Decline 20. Presenting Issues: Abandonment, Emotional Abuse 21. Presenting Issue: Racism, Emancipation 22. Presenting Issues: Lying, Destructiveness 23. Presenting Issues: Lying, Destructiveness
