Clinical Interviewing Skills DVD

Learn practical strategies for conducting effective clinical interviews

With video segments featuring real counselors and clients—not actors—authors John and Rita Sommers-Flanagan explore the following interviewing skills and techniques:

• Attending Behaviors such as eye contact, body posture, voice tone, and verbal tracking
• Nondirective Listening Responses including silence, clarifications, paraphrasing, reflection of feeling, and summarization
• Directive Listening Responses covering feeling validation, interpretive reflection of feeling, interpretation, reframe, and confrontation
• Directives and Action Responses including psychoeducation, suggestion, agreement-disagreement, approval-disapproval, advice, and self-disclosure
• Questions and Therapeutic Questions ranging from open, closed, and indirect to swing, projective, and therapeutic
• Intake Interview
• Mental Status Examination
• Suicide Assessment Interview

System requirements:

• TV or computer DVD player
• Windows® XP, Vista, or 7; MacOS® 10.4 or later
• 512 MB RAM
• A DVD drive

Approximate run time: 2:08:37

Rita Sommers-Flanagan, Ph.D., has been a professor of counselor education at the University of Montana for the past 21 years. Her favorite teaching and research areas are ethics and women’s issues, and she served as the director of Women’s Studies at the University of Montana, as well as the acting director of the Practical Ethics Center. She is also a clinical psychologist, and has worked with youth, families, and women for many years. She is the author or co-author of over 40 articles and book chapters.
John and Rita work together as the mental health consultants for Trapper Creek Job Corps. Together, they have coauthored nine books, including How to Listen so Parents Will Talk and Talk so Parents Will Listen, Becoming an Ethical Helping Professional: Cultural and Philosophical Foundations, and Counseling and Psychotherapy Theories in Context and Practice: Skills, Strategies, and Techniques (all three from Wiley).

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