Over 450 databased studies and years of field testing attest to the effectiveness of the Microskills model in INTENTIONAL INTERVIEWING AND COUNSELING: FACILITATING CLIENT DEVELOPMENT IN A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY! Available with an interactive CD-ROM (which can be packaged with the text), 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 interview using listening skills. Along the way, they are challenged to re-evaluate their current behaviors and perceptions, thus gaining valuable insight about themselves, their strengths, and the areas where they can develop further. By the time they finish reading the text, they will have the ability to adapt their skills to meet both individual and multicultural uniqueness, conduct interviews using five different theoretical approaches, and be well on their way to developing a personalized style and theory of interviewing and counseling that matches their own aptitudes and affinities.

"A well researched and well written introduction to counseling skills and to multicultural counseling. I very much like the Microskills approach and think it may be the most effective framework to teach peer counselors. I teach on a diverse campus and the book's emphasis on diversity is very powerful."

Over 450 databased studies and years of field testing attest to the effectiveness of the Microskills model in INTENTIONAL INTERVIEWING AND COUNSELING: FACILITATING CLIENT DEVELOPMENT IN A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY! Available with an interactive CD-ROM (which can be packaged with the text), 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 interview using listening skills. Along the way, they are challenged to re-evaluate their current behaviors and perceptions, thus gaining valuable insight about themselves, their strengths, and the areas where they can develop further. By the time they finish reading the text, they will have the ability to adapt their skills to meet both individual and multicultural uniqueness, conduct interviews using five different theoretical approaches, and be well on their way to developing a personalized style and theory of interviewing and counseling that matches their own aptitudes and affinities.

Over 450 databased studies attest to the effectiveness of the Microskills model in INTENTIONAL INTERVIEWING AND COUNSELING: FACILITATING CLIENT DEVELOPMENT IN A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY! Available with an interactive CD-ROM (which can be packaged with the text), 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 interview using only listening skills by the time they are half-way through the course.. Following this, students learn confrontation and influencing skills. 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.

Allen E. Ivey is Distinguished University Professor (Emeritus), University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Professor, Counseling, at the University of South Florida, Tampa. He is president of Microtraining Associates, an educational publishing firm. Allen also serves on the Board of Directors of the National Institute for Multicultural Competence. Allen is author or co-author of more than 30 books and 200 articles and chapters, translated into more than seventeen languages. He is the originator of the Microskills approach, basic to this book.Mary Bradford Ivey is vice president of Microtraining Associates and Professor of Counseling, at the University of South Florida, Tampa. She is a former school counselor in the Amherst, Massachusetts schools, and has served as visiting professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, University of Hawai'i, Manoa; and Flinders University, South Australia. Mary earned her undergraduate degree in social work and education, her master's degree in counseling and guidance and her doctorate in organizational development. She is one of the first 15 honored Fellows of the American Counseling Association and is also a recipient of the American Counseling Association's O'Hana Award for her work in multicultural counseling in the schools. Mary is the author or co-author of eleven books, several articles and chapters and more than ten counseling videotapes.