Techniques and Strategies of Psychological Counseling (Fifth Edition)

Author: (USA) Allen E. Ivey, (USA) Mary Bradford Ivey, translated by Shi Zhihong, Gao Xiuping
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: This book is a masterpiece by contemporary counseling masters Allen E. Ivey and Mary Bradford Ivey. The micro-skills and strategies for interviews and counseling introduced in the book are currently the most in-depth and widely applied counseling methods. Their correctness and effectiveness have been proven by over 450 data-based research studies and are extensively used worldwide in the training of professional counselors, nurses, and community volunteers. This is the newly revised edition of this classic work. The authors teach students from diverse backgrounds the basic skills of counseling in a step-by-step manner. From quickly learning listening techniques to successfully completing an interview process, to subsequently learning influencing techniques such as confrontation and intentionally guiding the direction of interviews and counseling, to finally integrating techniques to form their own unique and effective helping style, the book presents techniques in a progressive, pyramid-shaped structure—hierarchical levels of interview micro-skills. Each introduction of a counseling technique is accompanied by specific, real-life counseling cases and detailed explanations and critiques. At the end of each chapter, there are numerous individual and group practice exercises to help readers master the specific techniques and concepts introduced in each chapter. By the end of the study, students will have learned to organize interviews and counseling from several different theoretical perspectives: client-centered, decisional interviewing, confidence training, brief decisional counseling, and so on. This book encourages counselors to, in practice, develop their own unique and effective interview and counseling styles based on their inherent strengths and natural tendencies.