Main description:

* Uniquely focuses on the microskills of therapy as well as understanding the contexts and situations in which these skills are used.
* This new edition is updated to include major updates in the field, such as focusing on diversity and social justice, the importance of telehealth in a post covid-19 world, and the effectiveness of evidence-based and empirically-based practices in standard psychotherapy practice.
* Includes a new chapter on the ethical relationship in psychotherapy.
* Interweaves a new framework, the Issue Cycle, throughout the book to help readers center their skills, helping the reader build, from start to finish, a foundational template for engaging clients regardless of therapeutic model.
* This new edition includes multiple engagement tools throughout, such as case scenarios, reflective questions, application exercises, growth activities, and chapter summaries.
* Includes an online resource of videos to allow readers to see skills in action as well as an instructor's manual that includes sample syllabus, lecture leads, essay questions, a test bank, and expanded references.

Contents:

Part I: The Context of The Therapy Relationship 1. Therapeutic Interviewing: Defining Therapy, Therapeutic Relationships, & The Interview 2. The Therapy Client: Motivation & Understanding of Therapy 3. The Therapeutic Interviewer: Motivation & Impact of Being a Therapist 4. Ethics: The Contract of the Relationship Part II: The Context of Skills of Therapy 5. Beginning Conversational Skills: Use of Language for Joining and Maintaining an Interview 6. Basic Reflecting Skills: Exploring Client Content 7. Advanced Reflecting Skills: Exploring Client Feelings & Meanings 8. Questions & Goal-Setting Skills: Asking Purposeful Questions & Developing Collaborative Therapeutic Goals 9. Endings in Therapy: Summarizing, Ending Sessions, & Termination 10. Pitfalls of Therapy: How to Avoid Being Ineffective 11. Strength-Based Interviewing: Interviewing for Client Resources and Solutions Part III: The Contexts of Clients 12. Therapeutic Assessment Interviewing: Intake Interviewing, Mental Status Exams, and Crisis Counseling 13. Therapeutic Interviewing with Diverse Clients 14. Therapeutic Interviewing with Children 15. Therapeutic Interviewing with Couples & Families 16. Therapeutic Interviewing with Groups Part IV: The Contexts of Therapy 17. Office-Based Therapy: Interviewing in the Therapist's Domain 18. Home-Based Therapy: Interviewing in the Client's Domain 19. Interviewing in Alternative Settings: Schools, Residential & In-Patient Facilities, & Telehealth