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

Ivey, Allen E.; Ivey, Mary Bradford

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9780534519858: Intentional Interviewing and Counseling: Facilitating Client Development in a Multicultural Society

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ISBN 10: 0534519857 ISBN 13: 9780534519858

Publisher: Brooks Cole, 2003

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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.

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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.

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"I would highly recommend this text to colleagues seeking a well-written, clearly developed textbook covering the basic client-centered interview skills using a stepwise approach to skill development and a clear, understandable outline."

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