Intentional Interviewing and Counseling: Facilitating Client Development in a Multicultural Society (with CD-ROM)

Students can learn the nuts and bolts of interviewing thanks to the textbook Intentional Interviewing and Counseling: Facilitating Client Development in a Multicultural Society (with CD-ROM), ISBN 9780495601234 offered by Allen E. Ivey, Mary Bradford Ivey, and Carlos P. Zalaquett. This book presents users with methods and strategies to hone skills to meet the needs of both individual and multicultural uniqueness, apply various theoretical approaches to conducting interviews, as well as develop a uniquely personalized style of interviewing and counseling that draws on the student's own abilities and talents. Just a few of the skills discussed in this book include how to properly structure an interview, listen productively, measure the impact on the client, and assess interviewing competencies. Effective text features integrated for further student comprehension include case studies, sample interviews, as well as 'Portfolio of Competencies.' Allen E. Ivey, Mary Bradford Ivey, and Carlos P. Zalaquett strategically organize the concepts and strategies of Intentional Interviewing and Counseling: Facilitating Client Development in a Multicultural Society (with CD-ROM) across four sections and 15 chapters. Section I begins with a thorough 'Introduction' with chapters devoted to intentional interviewing and counseling, ethics, multicultural competence, and wellness, as well as attending behavior. Section II focused on 'Hearing Client Stories: How to Organize an Interview.' These chapters investigate techniques for questions, observation, encouraging, paraphrasing, and summarizing, active listening, observing and reflecting feelings, and integrating listening skills. Section III delves into 'Helping Clients Generate New Stories that Lead to Action: Influencing Skills and Strategies.' Chapters in this section focus on confrontation, focusing the interview using multiple perspectives, reflection of meaning and interpretation/reframing, and influencing skills. The final part of this book concludes in section IV with a look at 'Skill Integration.' These last chapters explore putting it all together, microskills and counseling theory, determining personal style and future theoretical/practical integration.