Interviewing and Change Strategies for Helpers

Fully updated to reflect the latest research and issues, INTERVIEWING AND CHANGE STRATEGIES FOR HELPERS, Seventh Edition introduces you to the knowledge, skills, values, and tools needed by today's professional helpers. The authors' conceptual foundation reflects four critical areas for helpers: core skills and attributes, effectiveness and evidence-based practice, diversity issues and ecological models, and critical commitments and ethical practice, using an interdisciplinary approach that reflects the authors' extensive experience in the fields of counseling, psychology, social work, and health and human services. The text skillfully combines evidence-based interviewing skills and cognitive-behavioral intervention change strategies, thus preparing you to work with clients representing a wide range of ages, cultural backgrounds, and challenges in living.

Sherry Cormier is Professor Emerita in the Department of Counseling, Rehabilitation Counseling, and Counseling Psychology at West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. 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, issues impacting girls and women, health, wellness, and stress management.

Paula S. Nurius is a Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Washington in Seattle and Director of the Prevention Research Training Program funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Nurius is a mental health specialist; her research, practice, and teaching addressing perception and responding under conditions of stress and trauma with particular concern for vulnerable populations, conditions of social disadvantage, and fostering prevention and resilience-enhancing interventions. Her current scholarship focuses on life course stress, including interrelationships among violence and adversity exposures, mental health, substance use, and personal/social resources on adaptive and maladaptive development.

Cynthia J. Osborn is a Professor in the Counseling and Human Development Services graduate program at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. She is a licensed professional clinical counselor and a licensed chemical dependency counselor in Ohio. Her research, clinical practice, and teaching have focused on substance use issues and counselor supervision from the perspectives of motivational interviewing and solution-focused therapy. Additional scholarship has addressed case conceptualization and treatment-planning skills, and stamina and resilience in mental health practice.