Interviewing and Change Strategies for Helpers

This innovative revision of a respected text skillfully combines evidence-based interviewing skills and cognitive-behavioral intervention change strategies applicable to a wide range of client ages, cultural backgrounds, and problems in living. The book interweaves attention to conceptual and empirical foundations with a practical skills emphasis on real-life factors in contemporary settings with diverse clientele. Long commended for its synthesis of up-to-date professional knowledge with case models, learning activities, and guided feedback, INTERVIEWING AND CHANGE STRATEGIES FOR HELPERS adds significant new content on vital topics such as ethics, critical thinking, technology, managed care, client resistance, and cultural diversity. Now in its Fifth Edition, the interdisciplinary team of Cormier and Nurius blend updates and a proven instructional format focusing on knowledge, skills, commitments, and tools at the core of what is needed by today's professional helpers.

Sherry Cormier is a professor in the Department of Counseling, Rehabilitation Counseling and Counseling Psychology at West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia. She is a licensed psychologist in the state of West Virginia. Her current research and practice interests are in counseling and psychology training and supervision models, diversity issues, and issues impacting girls and women. She teaches a variety of courses for doctoral level students.

Paula S. Nurius is a professor in the University of Washington School of Social Work in Seattle, Washington. She brings her masters and doctoral training in both psychology and social work to her teaching, practice, and research, with particular concern for vulnerable and traumatized populations. Dr. Nurius directs an NIMH-funded graduate training program in prevention research and has longstanding interests in fostering linkages between practice and research and among allied disciplines committed to helping/human services. Her current research focuses on effects of violence and cumulative adversity on development, coping, and resilience.

Cynthia J. Osborn is an associate professor in the Counseling and Human Development Services Program at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. She is a licensed Professional Clinical Counselor in Ohio and a certified chemical dependency counselor and has worked with people with co-occurring (mental illness and substance use) disorders. Publications and research interests are in the areas of substance abuse, solution-focused counseling, motivational interviewing, and counselor supervision. Osborn serves as co-editor of the national journal, COUNSELOR EDUCATION AND SUPERVISION (an ACApublication).