Essential interviewing and counseling skills : an integrated approach to practice / Tracy A. Prout, PhD, Melanie J. Wadkins, PhD.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Building the foundation -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to counseling and interviewing -- Doing our best : ethics and professional responsibility -- Understanding your clients : case conceptualization and selection of -- Counseling interventions -- Introduction to issues of diversity -- Getting started : interviewing and developing a relationship -- Beginnings : the initial interview -- Interviewing and counseling skills : modes of listening -- Interviewing and counseling skills : empathy and support -- Interviewing and counseling skills: empathy and support -- Connecting and promoting change -- Counseling skills : assessment, case formulation, and treatment planning -- The nature of the counseling relationship -- Promoting change : counseling skills that address thoughts and behaviors -- Promoting change : counseling skills that address emotions and relationships -- Endings and professional issues -- Endings -- Varieties of counseling situations -- Using counseling skills that work -- Growing as a counseling professional.

This is the only comprehensive text to focus on the development of practical interviewing and counseling skills for Master's-level mental health counseling students. It is structured around the goals established by the CACREP's 2009 document on standards for MHC programs, and uniquely encompasses both theory and practice from the perspectives of a diverse array of theoretical schools and practice strategies. The text emphasizes the importance of multicultural facets of interviewing and counseling throughout, challenging students to examine their own backgrounds and biases as they develop profe.

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