Interviewing and Change Strategies for Helpers,
8th Edition

1. Building Your Foundation as a Helper.
2. Critical Commitments: Diversity Issues and Ethical Practice for Helpers.
3. Ingredients of an Effective Helping Relationship.
4. Listening.
5. Influencing Responses.
6. Assessing and Conceptualizing Client Problems and Contexts.
7. Conducting an Interview Assessment With Clients.
8. Constructing, Contextualizing, and Evaluating Treatment Goals.
9. Clinical Decision Making and Treatment Planning.
10. Strategies for Working With Resistance: Solution Focused Therapy and Motivational Interviewing.
11 Cognitive Change Strategies: Reframing, Cognitive Modeling, and Cognitive Restructuring.
12. Cognitive Approaches to Stress Management: Stress Processes, Problem Solving Therapy, and Stress Inoculation Training.
13. Self-Calming Approaches to Stress Management: Breathing, Muscle Relaxation, and Mindfulness Meditation.
14. Exposure Therapy for Anxiety, Fear, and Trauma.
15. Self-Management Strategies: Self-Monitoring, Stimulus Control, Self-Reward, and Self-Efficacy.

• Sherry Cormier

  Sherry Cormier is Professor Emerita in the Department of Counseling, Rehabilitation Counseling, and Counseling Psychology at West Virginia University in 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; issues impacting girls and women; health, wellness, and stress management; and grief recovery. She lives at the beach near the Chesapeake Bay and enjoys kayaking, yoga, biking, hiking, reading, and music in her leisure time.

• Paula S. Nurius

  Paula S. Nurius is the Grace Beals Ferguson Scholar, Professor, and Associate Dean in the School of Social Work at the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr. Nurius is a mental health specialist with research, practice, and teaching experience that addresses perception and responding under conditions of stress and trauma. She brings particular concern for vulnerable, marginalized populations and to fostering prevention and resilience-enhancing interventions. Her current scholarship focuses on childhood and cumulative life course stress, including impacts of maltreatment, nonviolent adversity, and poverty on physical, mental, and behavioral health disparities. She enjoys the outdoor life of the Pacific Northwest with her husband, daughter, and schnoodle pooch.

• Cynthia J. Osborn

  Cynthia J. Osborn is Professor of Counselor Education and Supervision 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 addictive behaviors 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 behavioral health care. She enjoys reading character novels and practicing yoga, and she and her husband together enjoy exercising and the company of their Bichon Frisé dog, Jake.

• MindTap®, a cloud-based, interactive learning experience built on the book's content, is available with this text. MindTap guides students through the course by combining readings, multimedia, applied activities, and assessments into a Learning Path that focuses on the key helping skills, intervention change strategies, and concepts presented in the text. It also includes counseling demonstration videos (featuring two of the book's authors) that are tied to every chapter. Instructors can rearrange and add content, and easily measure students' skills and outcomes.

• Updated throughout, the eighth edition integrates the most contemporary evidence and scholarly literature base for the helping skills and change interventions described, enabling instructors to present their students with current thinking and research.

• This edition describes and integrates a number of timely content areas, such as attention to ethical practice and culturally adapted interventions that support accreditation standards across a variety of helping disciplines.

• New, updated, or expanded discussions cover the DSM-5 (including case examples updated to reflect DSM-5 diagnoses), the newest addition of the ASAM Criteria, solution-focused therapy and motivational interviewing, the multiple levels of processes involved in the development and operation of schemas for psychological disorders, mindfulness-based stress management practices, new uses of the Internet and technological devices to support longer term self-management, and many other topics.

• An Instructor's Resource Manual and test bank -- complete with practice tests, chapter outlines, and PowerPoint® slides -- help instructors save time and use the text to full advantage.

• This text exposes you to the most current literature and thinking in the field related to topics such as ethics, diversity, and evidence-based practice -- helping you "be on top of your game" with respect to helping practice. Most students report that this is the one book that they keep after graduation and continue to use as a reference guide in their work with clients.

• New, updated, or expanded discussions cover the DSM-5 (with case examples updated to reflect DSM-5 diagnoses), the newest addition of the ASAM Criteria, solution-focused therapy and motivational interviewing, the multiple levels of processes involved in the development and operation of schemas for psychological disorders, mindfulness-based stress management practices, new uses of the Internet and technological devices to support longer term self-management, and many other topics.

• This text is available with MindTap®, a cloud-based learning experience that guides you through the course to help you prepare for licensure, acquire additional skills, and apply concepts. MindTap also includes video demonstrations (conducted by two of the book's authors) that are tied to every chapter in the book, allowing you to observe key helping skills and interventions in practice.

• The text presents interviewing and change strategies within a thorough and carefully researched but very readable format that effectively explores topics such as the importance of building a strong client-helper relationship, conceptualizing and assessment with goal setting and treatment planning, and a variety of evidence-based intervention change strategies.

• Throughout the text, the authors devote considerable attention to diversity issues, the client's ecology, and a multidisciplinary and integrative helping approach, enabling students to better understand and appreciate critical factors that can affect their client relationships and professional practices.

• The text provides both fundamental and complex helping skills for students and new professionals to use with a diverse clientele. These evidence-based skills are presented in a clear, comprehensive, and compelling fashion. Each chapter includes clearly outlined learning outcomes and activities, model examples, guided feedback, and end-of-chapter evaluations, all designed to help students learn quickly and effectively and to prepare for success in their courses and careers.

• An ample selection of learning exercises, client examples, and model dialogues helps to bring many of the strategies to life, providing students valuable illustrations of how to implement new skills as well as opportunities to reflect on and practice strategies with broad-based applicability to working with clients.

• The text presents interviewing and change strategies within a carefully researched format that uses plain language to explore essential topics such as the importance of building a strong client-helper relationship, comprehensive assessment and case conceptualization for the purpose of goal setting and treatment planning, and a variety of evidence-based intervention change strategies.

• Throughout the text, the authors devote considerable attention to diversity issues, the client's ecology, and a multidisciplinary and integrative helping approach, enabling you to better understand critical factors that can affect your client relationships and professional practices.

• An ample selection of learning exercises, client examples, and model dialogues helps to bring many of the strategies to life, providing you valuable illustrations of how to implement new skills as well as opportunities to reflect on and practice strategies with broad-based applicability to working with clients.

• The text provides both fundamental and complex helping skills that you can use with a diverse clientele. These evidence-based skills are presented in a clear, comprehensive, and compelling fashion. Each chapter includes clearly outlined learning outcomes and activities, model examples, guided feedback, and end-of-chapter evaluations, all designed to help you learn quickly and effectively and to prepare for success in your courses and careers.

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Online Instructor's Manual for Cormier/Nurius/Osbom’s Interviewing and Change Strategies for Helpers, 8th
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Online PowerPoint® for Cormier/Nurius/Osbom’s Interviewing and Change Strategies for Helpers, 8th
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Online Test Bank for Cormier/Nurius/Osbom’s Interviewing and Change Strategies for Helpers, 8th
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VitalSource eBook: Interviewing and Change Strategies for Helpers 12 Months
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