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This fifth edition of a text for students in the helping professions increases emphasis on accountability and multicultural understanding, and adds new exercises and case studies, new boxes on research relevant to interviewing, and enhanced material on community and family genograms. Allen Ivey is professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and president of an educational publishing firm. Mary Ivey is vice president of an educational publishing firm. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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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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