Psychology 371: Communication Skills in Counseling

Course Mentor:   Carol Rainwater, EdD

Tuition: $375

This course will focus on the “how’s” of the Clinical Interview, exploring the Clinical Interview and its components from the perspective of the microskills approach developed over many years by Allen E. Ivey and colleagues.  You will have the opportunity to integrate parts of this approach with your counseling style, if you choose.  You will have the opportunity to reexamine your counseling style, which is always valuable, and to enhance your way of communicating with clients, perfecting the techniques that work, and acquiring new ones.

Required Texts and On-line Documents:  

Allen E. Ivey and Mary Bradford Ivey. Intentional Interviewing and Counseling (5th ed.)   Pacific Grove, CA: Thompson - Brooks/Cole, 2002.   ISBN: 0534519857.  (Click on the title to order this text online through WorldU's link with Amazon.com. Some used copies may be available on the page for this book.  Please be sure to get the Fifth Edition.)

DESCRIPTION:  The new Fifth Edition of this hallmark text enables students of many backgrounds to master basic skills in a step-by-step fashion, thus rapidly empowering them to conduct a full interviews using only listening skills. Following this, students learn confrontation and influencing skills and by the time the text is completed, students will be able to conduct interviews from several theoretical perspectives: person-centered, decisional interviewing, assertiveness training, and brief solution-oriented counseling. Throughout the text, students are encouraged to examine themselves and to start defining their own personal style and theory of interviewing and counseling.

Dennis Rivers.   The Seven Challenges: A Workbook and Reader About Communicating More Cooperatively.  Victoria, British Columbia: Trafford Publishers, 2004.  (Click the title of the book to download this book as a free PDF file.)  The Seven Challenges Workbook explores how the same patterns of cooperative communication help create interpersonal success at home, at work, and in psychotherapy.

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