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

Ivey, Allen E.; Ivey, Mary Bradford

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534357563 ISBN 13: 9780534357566

Publisher: Brooks Cole, 1998

Synopsis

In this 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.

About this title

About the Author

Allen E. Ivey is Distinguished University Professor (emeritus) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Courtesy Professor of Counseling at the University of South Florida, Tampa. He is president of Microtraining Associates, an educational publishing firm. A diplomate in counseling psychology, Dr. Ivey was honored as a Multicultural Elder at the National Multicultural Conference and Summit. He has written more than 40 books and 200 articles and chapters, translated into 25 languages. Dr. Ivey's undergraduate work was in psychology at Stanford University, followed by a Fulbright Grant to study social work at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His doctorate is from Harvard University. He is the originator of the Microskills approach, basic to this book.

Review

"This is a classic and the best sequenced model for counseling skill development on the current market. I have stated that this text has been used for a number of years at our University and I would hope it would continue to be the main text for our required course in Microcounseling... the writing is comfortable, the text flows smoothly, the topics are covered in an appropriate manner, and the accuracy of content is above reproach."

"... this edition of Intentional Interviewing and Counseling is a valuable addition to the training of counselors because it incorporates the latest narrative approach, as well as contemporary cross-cultural perspectives and gender issues."

"...an unequalled resource for teaching counseling skills to our new graduate level students. The new edition includes several exciting changes that make the book even better: the story - positive asset - restory - action framework and new material on solution-focused counseling. A delightful textbook in all respects!"

Edition details

• Publisher: Brooks Cole
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0534357563
• ISBN 13: 9780534357566
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 432