Intentional Interviewing and Counseling: Facilitating Client Development in a Multicultural Society

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Cengage Learning, Dec 5, 2016 - Education - 528 pages
Over 500 data-based studies and years of field testing attest to the effectiveness of the microskills model in INTENTIONAL INTERVIEWING AND COUNSELING: FACILITATING CLIENT DEVELOPMENT IN A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 9th Edition. This hallmark text enables students of many backgrounds to master basic skills in a step-by-step fashion, empowering them to use listening and influencing skills as they conduct full interviews. Students are challenged to re-evaluate their behaviors and perceptions, thereby gaining insight about themselves, their strengths, and areas where they can develop further. After finishing the text, students will have the ability to adapt their skills to address individual and multicultural uniqueness, conduct interviews using different theoretical approaches, and be well on their way to developing a personalized style and theory of interviewing and counseling. Neuroscience and neurobiology, and their applications to counseling, are clearly outlined throughout.
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About the author (2016)

Carlos P. Zalaquett, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, Counseling and Special Education and coordinates a team of counseling outcome researchers from around the country. He is a former president of the Interamerican Society of Psychology/Sociedad Interamericana de Psicologia (SIP) and former president of the Florida Mental Health Counseling Association, the Suncoast Mental Health Counselors Association (SMHCA) and the Florida Behavioral Health Alliance. He currently serves as president of the Pennsylvania Mental Health Counselors Association (PAMHCA). He is also a former faculty and assistant director of research in the Department of Psychology in the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. Dr. Zalaquett is a registered psychologist in Chile and a licensed mental health counselor in the state of Florida. Dr. Zalaquett is an internationally recognized expert on mental health, counseling, psychotherapy, diversity and education, and he has conducted workshops and lectures in eleven countries. He is the author or co-author of more than seventy scholarly publications and five books, including the Spanish version of Basic Attending Skills. He has received many awards, such as the USF Latinos Association's Faculty of the Year, the Tampa Hispanic Heritage's Man of Education Award, the SMHCA Emeritus Award, and the Award for Internationalization of the VIII Congreso Regional de la Sociedad Interamericana de Psicologia (CR-SIP) 2022. His current research focuses on therapeutic outcome. Furthermore, he also uses a neuroscience-based framework to compare brain activity and self-reported decision making. This cutting-edge research integrates mind, brain and body in the exploration of human responses central to counseling and psychotherapy.

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