Intentional Interviewing and Counseling: Facilitating Client Development in a Multicultural Society with Infotrac - Softcover

Ivey, Allen E.; Ivey, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534519857 ISBN 13: 9780534519858

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc, 2002

Synopsis

Over 450 databased studies attest to the effectiveness of the microskills model in the INTENTIONAL INTERVIEWING AND COUNSELING: FACILITATING CLIENT DEVELOPMENT IN A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY! The new Fifth Edition of this hallmark text enables students of many backgrounds to master basic skills in a step-by-step fashion, thus rapidly empowering them to conduct a full interviews using only listening skills. Following this, students learn confrontation and influencing skills and by the time the text is completed, students will be able to conduct interviews from several theoretical perspectives: person-centered, decisional interviewing, assertiveness training, and brief solution-oriented counseling. Throughout the text, students are encouraged to examine themselves and to start defining their own personal style and theory of interviewing and counseling.

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Review

"I would highly recommend this text to colleagues seeking a well-written, clearly developed textbook covering the basic client-centered interview skills using a stepwise approach to skill development and a clear, understandable outline."

Synopsis

This fifth edition of a text for students in the helping professions increases emphasis on accountability and multicultural understanding, and adds new exercises and case studies, new boxes on research relevant to interviewing, and enhanced material on community and family genograms. Allen Ivey is professor emeritus at the University of Massachuset

Edition details

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0534519857
• ISBN 13: 9780534519858
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 446