Essential interviewing and counseling skills : an integrated approach to practice / Tracy A. Prout (PhD), and Melanie J. Wadkins (PhD).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prout, Tracy A., author.

Wadkins, Melanie J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interviewing.

Counseling.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (439 pages) ; illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Springer Publishing Company, LLC, [2014].

Summary:

This is the only comprehensive text to focus on the development of practical interviewing and counseling skills for Master's-level mental health counseling students. It is structured around the goals established by the CACREP's 2009 document on standards for MHC programs, and uniquely encompasses both theory and practice from the perspectives of a diverse array of theoretical schools and practice strategies. The text emphasizes the importance of multicultural facets of interviewing and counseling throughout.-- [Publisher]

Contents:

PART I: BUILDING THE FOUNDATION

1. Introduction to counseling and interviewing

2. Doing our best: Ethics and professional responsibility

3. Understanding your clients: Case conceptualization and selection of counseling interventions

4. Introduction to issues of diversity

PART II: GETTING STARTED: INTERVIEWING AND DEVELOPING A RELATIONSHIP

5. Beginnings: The initial interview

6. Interviewing and counseling skills: Modes of listening

7. Counseling skills: Empathy and the therapeutic alliance

PART III: CONNECTING AND PROMOTING CHANGE

8. Counseling skills: Assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning

9. The nature of the counseling relationship

10. Promoting change: Counseling skills that address thoughts and behaviors

11. Promoting change: Counseling skills that address emotions and relationships

PART IV: ENDINGS AND PROFESSIONAL ISSUES

12. Endings

13. Varieties of counseling situations

14. Using counseling skills that work

15. Growing as a counseling professional.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-405) and index.

ISBN:

0-8261-9916-X