Clinical Interviewing - Hardcover

This clinical interviewing primer blends a personal and easy-to-read style with an emphasis on both the scientific foundations and interpersonal aspects of mental health interviewing. Written from an integrative/eclectic perspective, this second edition incorporates modifications made necessary by the rise of managed care and revised thinking in the field relating to DSM-IV. Providing provocative examples and case anecdotes, it contains new chapters on suicide assessment interviewing, interviewing teens, couples, and families, and multicultural interviewing, as well as stress management techniques for the interviewer.

RITA SOMMERS-FLANAGAN, PhD, and JOHN SOMMERS-FLANAGAN, PhD, have worked together professionally for fourteen years, writing, teaching, and conducting research. Rita is a clinical psychologist and an associate professor of counseling at the University of Montana. As a past rehabilitation counselor and current certified school counselor, she brings a variety of perspectives to her teaching of clinical interviewing. John is a clinical psychologist, newspaper columnist, and the executive director of Families First, a parent education program. In his independent practice, John specializes in working with difficult youth. Both John and Rita are widely sought after workshop leaders and speakers. They are the authors of numerous professional articles, instructional chapters, and two books.