Description

Learn practical strategies for conducting effective clinical interviews

With video segments featuring real counselors and clients–not actors–authors John and Rita Sommers-Flanagan explore the following interviewing skills and techniques:

• Attending Behaviors such as eye contact, body posture, voice tone, and verbal tracking
• Nondirective Listening Responses including silence, clarifications, paraphrasing, reflection of feeling, and summarization
• Directive Listening Responses covering feeling validation, interpretive reflection of feeling, interpretation, reframe, and confrontation
• Directives and Action Responses including psychoeducation, suggestion, agreement-disagreement, approval-disapproval, advice, and self-disclosure
• Questions and Therapeutic Questions ranging from open, closed, and indirect to swing, projective, and therapeutic
• Intake Interview
• Mental Status Examination
• Suicide Assessment Interview

System requirements:

• TV or computer DVD player
• Windows(R) XP, Vista, or 7; MacOS(R) 10.4 or later
• 512 MB RAM
• A DVD drive

Approximate run time: 2:08:37

Author: Sommers-Flanagan, John, Author: Sommers-Flanagan, Rita

Topic: Psychology
Media: Video Product
ISBN: 1118390121
Language: English
Pages: