purpose
A note from the Author:
Choices: Interviewing and Counselling Skills for Canadians, Fourth Edition, presents an introduction to interviewing and counselling skills from a Canadian perspective. My goal has been to provide a practical guide to assist professionals in the helping disciplines in developing knowledge, skills, and attitudes for effective interviewing and counselling.
Although the book is intended primarily as a textbook for Canadian introductory counselling and interviewing courses, it is also designed as a reference text for more advanced practitioners. The book is targeted at students of counselling and professionals in disciplines such as social work, youth justice, child and youth care counselling, addictions, and psychology. Previous editions have also been used by students and practitioners in allied disciplines such as teaching, general nursing, and psychiatric nursing.
This book aims to contribute to the development of professional competence in four ways:
1. It introduces basic concepts and models to help learners understand the theory and reasoning behind the use of counselling and interviewing skills.
2. It provides realistic examples to illustrate concepts in action.
3. It contains challenging exercises that promote skill development, conceptual understanding, and self-awareness.
4. It emphasizes the notion of a range of skill choices for interviewing, rather than rules and recipes.
Available january 2010
© 2011 • ISBN-13: 9780135074558 • 416 pages
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