Culture-Centered Counseling and Interviewing Skills - A Practical Guide

This practical guide for developing and using culture-centered counseling and interviewing skills is by well-known authorities on the subject. This guide examines culturally learned assumptions that all of us employ in managing and interacting with others and uses models of synthetic cultures for students, teachers, professional counselors, and interviewers in raising questions, interpreting, focusing on and mediating in multicultural situations.

List of contents

Culture Centeredness
The Multicultural Three-Step
The Cultural Grid and Culture Systems
Four Synthetic Cultures
Culture-Centered Skill Development
Preparing to Learn Culture-Centered Skills
Basic Attending Skills
Paraphrasing, Summarizing, and Encouraging Skills
Question-Asking Skills
Reflecting Feeling and Reflecting Meaning
Confrontation and Mediation Skills
Focusing, Directing, and Interpreting Skills
References
Index

About the author

Allen E. Ivey, Paul Pedersen

Product details

• Authors: Allen Ivey, Paul Pedersen
• Publisher: Praeger
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.10.1993
• EAN: 9780275946692
• ISBN: 978-0-275-94669-2
• No. of pages: 226
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 351 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries