Counseling and Motivational Interviewing in Speech-Language Pathology

Written as a helpful guide for speech-language pathologists and students, Counseling and Motivational Interviewing in Speech-Language Pathology provides a solid base in theoretical foundations, while prioritizing skill development and practical applications of counseling in speech-language pathology.

Now more than ever, there is a burgeoning need for speech-language pathologists to incorporate counseling into their everyday practice. However, most practitioners currently lack the training and knowledge necessary to fulfill that role. Counseling and Motivational Interviewing in Speech-Language Pathology seeks to remedy that by providing techniques and tools for counseling across the lifespan and practice settings.

The book is divided into two main parts:
• Chapters 1 through 4 cover the foundational principles of motivational interviewing, including several self-assessment tools to support learners in the process.
• Chapters 5 through 8 address specific counseling techniques and topics, providing readers with practical examples of how to properly counsel individuals with communication, cognition, and swallowing disorders.

What’s included in Counseling and Motivational Interviewing in Speech-Language Pathology:
• Sample dialogues between clinicians and clients.
• Case examples, thinking exercises, and potential assignments for readers to apply the knowledge and skills addressed in the book.
• A chapter dedicated to communicatively accessible structured interview approaches, eliciting and monitoring collaborative goals, and screening for other mental health concerns.

Counseling and Motivational Interviewing in Speech-Language Pathology is an approachable guide that will address the issues of scope of practice while proving why speech-language pathologists are uniquely suited to provide counseling.

Dr. Jerry Hoepner is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin―Eau Claire. He teaches courses in anatomy and physiology, neuroanatomy and neurophysiology, acquired cognitive disorders, dysphagia, and counseling. Jerry co-facilitates two community-based brain injury groups (Blugold Brain Injury Group and Mayo Brain Injury Group), a national poetry group for persons with brain injuries and aphasia (Thursday Night Poets), and the Chippewa Valley Aphasia Camp. His research addresses video self-modeling interventions for persons with acquired language or cognitive disorders and their everyday partners, aphasia camp outcomes for campers and students, motivational interviewing, counseling methods and training, undergraduate research outcomes, course-embedded clinical experiences, and instructional pedagogies. Dr. Hoepner is widely published in those clinical and academic research areas. He is a founding editor of Teaching and Learning in Communication Sciences and Disorders and editorial board member for Clinical Archives of Communication Disorders. In 2022, he cofounded the new ASHA SIG20 for counseling in Communication Sciences and Disorders. His poetry group the Thursday Night Poets published I Don’t Think I Did This Right, a collection of poems by people with brain injuries and aphasia in 2021. Their second poetry book, Poetry is Chocolate, includes poems about their recoveries from brain injuries and aphasia is forthcoming in 2023. In 2018, he was awarded the University of Wisconsin―Eau Claire, Excellence in Mentoring in Research, Scholarship, and Creative activity. In 2020, he was awarded the University of Wisconsin Systems Regent’s Teaching Excellence Award, the highest honor bestowed on University of Wisconsin faculty. In 2021, he was awarded Fellow of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association. In 2023, he was awarded the Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders Distinguished Contribution Award for enriching education in CSD.