Synopses & Reviews
In this fully-revised edition of their best-selling text, Allen and Mary Bradford Ivey provide a practical approach that shows beginning counselors and therapists how to conduct effective interviews using the Iveys' original Microskills approach. Students learn to master basic listening and influencing skills, how to conduct a full interview using only listening skills, and how to adapt Microskills and interviewing plans to meet the needs of multicultural clients.
Each chapter includes multicultural commentaries and lively case studies that remind students that different cultural groups think of the helping process in very different ways, and that issues of gender, language, religion, physical disability, affectional orientation, and experience with life trauma (such as child abuse, rape, the Vietnam war) are factors that should be considered during the counseling interview.
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.
About the Author
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.
Table of Contents
Before You Start: Ethics and Multicultural Competence. Section I: INTRODUCTION. 1. Toward Intentional Interviewing and Counseling. 2. Attending Behavior: Basic to Communication. SECTION II: HEARING CLIENT STORIES: HOW TO ORGANIZE AN INTERVIEW. 3. Questions: Opening Communication. 4. Observation Skills. 5. Encouraging, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing: Hearing the Client Accurately. 6. Observing and Reflecting Feelings: Fundamental to Client Experiencing. 7. How to Conduct a Complete Interview. Section III: HELPING CLIENTS GENERATE NEW STORIES THAT LEAD TO ACTION: INFLUENCING SKILLS AND STRATEGIES. 8. The Skills of Confrontation: Supporting While Challenging. 9. Focusing the Interview: Exploring the Story from Multiple Perspectives. 10. Eliciting and Reflecting Meaning: Helping Clients Explore Values and Beliefs. 11. Influencing Skills: Six Strategies for Change. Section IV: SKILL INTEGRATION. 12. Skill Integration: Putting it All Together. 13. Integrating Microskills with Theory: Sequencing Skills and Interview Stages. 14. Determining Personal Style and Future Theoretical/Practical Integration.