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Fully updated guide to proven, practical strategies for conducting effective interviews – including access code to online videos
Clinical Interviewing is the essential guide to conducting initial interviews, suicide assessment, mental status examinations, and psychotherapy skill development. The Sixth Edition includes:
- Updates focusing on latest trends in clinical interviewing research and practice
- Updated information on technology-based interviewing
- Access to over 70 videos that show the authors discussing and demonstrating crucial interviewing techniques
- Online instructor’s manual and resources to facilitate teaching
- Fresh case examples to help apply interviewing skills and concepts
- New coverage of special populations and multicultural considerations
- Expanded skills coverage to help facilitate client insight and action
This new edition also includes a Registration Access Card with a unique one-time code to access the Wiley Interactive E-Text (Powered by VitalSource), enhanced with dynamic content, including instructional videos and practice questions to further enrich student learning. It provides uninterrupted, mobile access anywhere, anytime.
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JOHN SOMMERS-FLANAGAN, PHD, is a clinical psychologist and professor of counselor education at the University of Montana. He is a long-time member of both the American Counseling Association (ACA) and the American Psychological Association (APA).
RITA SOMMERS-FLANAGAN, PHD, is professor emeritus at the University of Montana. As a clinical psychologist, she has worked with youth, families, couples, and women for many years.
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Preface
About the Authors
Part One: Foundations of Clinical Interviewing
Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Clinical Interview
Chapter Orientation
Welcome to the Journey
What is a Clinical Interview?
Clinical Interviewing vs. Counseling and Psychotherapy
A Learning Model for Clinical Interviewing
Multicultural Competencies
Multicultural Humility
Summary
Suggested Readings and Resources
Chapter 2: Preparation
Chapter Orientation
The Physical Setting
Professional and Ethical Issues
Multicultural Preparation
Stress Management and Self-Care
Summary
Suggested Readings and Resources
Chapter 3: An Overview of the Interview Process
Chapter Orientation
Stages of a Clinical Interview
The Introduction
The Opening
The Body
The Closing
Ending the Session (Termination)
Summary
Suggested Readings and Resources
Part Two: Listening and Relationship Development
Chapter 4: Nondirective Listening Skills
Chapter Orientation
Listening Skills
Adopting a Therapeutic Attitude
Why Nondirective Listening is also Directive
The Listening Continuum in Three Parts
Nondirective Listening Behaviors: Skills for Encouraging Client Talk
Ethical and Multicultural Considerations
Not Knowing What to Say
Summary
Suggested Readings and Resources
Chapter 5: Directive Listening Skills
Chapter Orientation
Directive Listening Behaviors: Skills for Encouraging Insight
Questions
Ethical and Multicultural Considerations when Using Directive Listening Skills
Summary
Suggested Readings and Resources
Chapter 6: Skills for Directing Clients toward Action
Chapter Orientation
Readiness to Change
Skills for Encouraging Action – Using Questions
Using Educational and Directive Techniques
Ethical and Multicultural Considerations when Encouraging Action
Summary
Suggested Readings and Resources
Chapter 7: Evidence-Based Relationships
Chapter Orientation
The Great Psychotherapy Debate
Carl Rogers’s Core Conditions
Other Evidence-Based Relationship Concepts
The Working Alliance (aka The Therapeutic Relationship)
Evidence-Based Multicultural Relationships
Summary
Suggested Readings and Resources
Part Three: Structuring and Assessment
Chapter 8: Intake Interviewing and Report Writing
Chapter Orientation
What’s an Intake Interview?
Identifying, Evaluating, and Exploring Client Problems and Goals
Obtaining Background and Historical Information
Assessment of Current Functioning
Brief Intake Interviewing
The Intake Report
Dos and Don’ts of Intake Interviews with Diverse Clients
Summary
Suggested Readings and Resources
Chapter 9: The Mental Status Examination
Chapter Orientation
What Is a Mental Status Examination?
Individual and Cultural Considerations
The Generic Mental Status Examination
When to Use Mental Status Examinations
Summary
Suggested Readings and Resources
Chapter 10: Suicide Assessment
Chapter Orientation
Facing the Suicide Situation
Suicide Risk Factors, Protective Factors, and Warning Signs
Building a Theoretical and Research-Based Foundation
Suicide Assessment Interviewing
Suicide Interventions
Ethical and Professional Issues
Summary
Suggested Readings and Resources
Chapter 11: Diagnosis and Treatment Planning
Chapter Orientation
Modern Diagnostic Classification Systems
Defining Mental Disorders
Diagnostic Interviewing
The Science of Clinical Interviewing: Diagnostic Reliability and Validity
Less Structured Diagnostic Clinical Interviews
Treatment Planning
Case Formulation and Treatment Planning: A Cognitive-Behavioral Example
Additional Cultural Modifications and Adaptations
Summary
Suggested Readings and Resources
Part Four: Special Populations and Situations
Chapter 12: Challenging Clients and Demanding Situations
Chapter Orientation
Challenging Clients
Motivational Interviewing and Other Strategies for Working Through Resistance
Assessment and Prediction of Violence and Dangerousness
Demanding Situations: Crisis and Trauma
Cultural Competencies in Disaster Mental Health
Summary
Suggested Readings and Resources
Chapter 13: Interviewing Young Clients
Chapter Orientation
Considerations in Working with Children and Adolescents
The Introduction
The Opening
The Body of the Interview
Closing and Termination
Culture in Young Client Interviews
Summary
Suggested Readings and Resources
Chapter 14: Interviewing Couples and Families
Chapter Orientation
Challenges and Ironies of Interviewing Couples and Families
The Introduction
The Opening
The Body
Closing and Termination
Special Considerations
Diversity Issues
Summary
Suggested Readings and Resources
Chapter 15: Electronic and Telephonic Interviewing
Chapter Orientation
Technology as an Extension of the Self
Definition of Terms and Communication Modalities
NonFtF Assessment and Intervention Research
Ethical and Practical Issues: Problems and Solutions
Conducting Online or NonFtF Interviews
Multicultural Issues: Culture and Online Culture
Summary
Suggested Online Training Resources
Appendix: Extended Mental Status Examination—Interview Protocol
References
Index
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“I’m a huge admirer of the authors’ excellent work. This book reflects their considerable clinical experience and provides great content, engaging writing, and enduring wisdom.”
—John C. Norcross, Ph.D., ABPP, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Scranton
“The most recent edition of Clinical Interviewing is simply outstanding. It not only provides a complete skeletal outline of the interview process in sequential fashion, but fleshes out numerous suggestions, examples, and guidelines in conducting successful and therapeutic interviews. Well-grounded in the theory, research and practice of clinical relationships, John and Rita Sommers-Flanagan bring to life for readers the real clinical challenges confronting beginning mental health trainees and professionals. Not only do the authors provide a clear and conceptual description of the interview process from beginning to end, but they identify important areas of required mastery (suicide assessment, mental status exams, diagnosis and treatment electronic interviewing, and work with special populations). Especially impressive is the authors’ ability to integrate cultural competence and cultural humility in the interview process. Few texts on interview skills cover so thoroughly the need to attend to cultural dimensions of work with diverse clients. This is an awesome book written in an engaging and interesting manner. I plan to use this text in my own course on advanced professional issues. Kudos to the authors for producing such a valuable text.”
—Derald Wing Sue, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
“This 6th edition of Clinical Interviewing is everything we’ve come to expect from the Sommers-Flanagan team, and more! Readers will find all the essential information needed to conduct a clinical interview, presented in a clear, straightforward, and engaging style. The infusion of multicultural sensitivity and humility prepares the budding clinician not only for contemporary practice, but well into the future. Notable strengths of the book are its careful attention to ethical practice and counselor self-care. The case studies obviously are grounded in the authors’ extensive experience and bring to life the complexities of clinical interviewing. This is a ‘must-have’ resource that belongs on the bookshelf of every mental health counselor trainee and practitioner.”
—Barbara Herlihy, PhD. NCC, LPC-S, University Research Professor, Counselor Education Program, University of New Orleans
