Techniques and Strategies of Counseling Psychology (5th Edition) -- Intentional Interviewing and Counseling

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 master 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 more than 450 data-based research studies and are extensively used worldwide for training professional counselors, nurses, and community volunteers. This is the newly revised edition of this classic work. The authors teach students from different backgrounds to master 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 the final integration of techniques to form counselors' own unique and effective helping styles, the book's skill introductions are structured in a pyramid-like form—levels of interview micro-skills. Each introduction of a counseling technique is accompanied by specific, real-life counseling cases with 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 be able to initially learn to organize interviews and counseling from several different theoretical perspectives: client-centered, decision-making interviews, confidence training, brief decision-making counseling, and so on. The book encourages counselors to, in practice, develop their own unique and effective interview and counseling styles based on their inherent strengths and natural styles.