This book offers clear and direct answers to the questions most frequently asked by students and trainees learning how to talk to clients and extract critical data from them. Written in a reader-friendly how-to style, the chapters in Basic Interviewing are not weighed down by references. Throughout, rich clinical illustrations facilitate the pragmatic application of fundamental principles.
Key Features
- Addresses common questions from students and trainees.
- Written in a reader-friendly how-to style.
- Includes 12 chapters covering essential interviewing techniques.
- Provides rich clinical illustrations for practical application.
- Indispensable for beginning graduate students and psychiatric trainees.
Additional Information
Its development reflects the old adage that "necessity is the mother of invention." For many years, the editors taught beginning level mental health clinicians. They found, however, no text to be satisfactory--including a number that they themselves were involved in producing. Some were too difficult; some were too simplistic; some were too doctrinaire; still others had missing elements. After the initial overview chapter, the text covers a variety of issues from the most specific--like how to begin and end interviews--to the more general--like how to build rapport and identify targets for treatment.
Specifications
Beginning graduate students in counseling and clinical psychology, social work, and other allied mental health fields, as well as psychiatric trainees, will find this text to be an indispensable companion.
