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 the Authors
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.
Mary Bradford Ivey is vice president of Microtraining Associates; a Courtesy Professor of Counseling at the University of South Florida, Tampa; and has served as visiting professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; the University of Hawai'i, Manoa; and Flinders University, South Australia. She is a retired elementary counselor and a former Stress Management counselor at Amherst College. Her comprehensive elementary program was named one of the top ten in the nation at the Christa McAuliffe Conference. Dr. Ivey earned a master's degree in counseling from the University of Wisconsin, and a doctorate in organizational development at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author or co-author of twelve books, translated into multiple languages, and several articles and chapters. A Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC) and a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC), she has presented workshops and keynote lectures with Dr. Allen Ivey throughout the world. She is also known for her work in promoting and explaining development guidance and counseling in the United States and abroad. She is one of the first fifteen honored Fellows of the American Counseling Association and is also a recipient of the American Counseling Association's Ohana Award for her work in multicultural counseling.
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