Clinical Interviewing

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