Publisher's Synopsis
Learn practical strategies for conducting effective clinical interviews
With video segments featuring real counselors and clientsnot actorsauthors 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® XP, Vista, or 7; MacOS® 10.4 or later
- 512 MB RAM
- A DVD drive
Approximate run time: 2:08:37
