Social Work Interview: A Guide for Human Service Professionals

ANNOTATION

Using current research, Kadushin has paid special attention to the ethnomethodology of face-to-face interactions and also addresses the use of computers for interviewing and processing of data.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

For twenty-five years, The Social Work Interview has been the textbook of choice in social work and other human service courses, as well as an essential professional resource for practitioners. This new edition, the first in seven years, is thoroughly updated-revised, expanded, and reorganized for more thorough coverage and for more effective teaching and learning. New to this edition: Thoroughly reorganized chapters and sections for greater coherence and clarityMore extensive literature reviewGreater emphasis on the process of communication and its role in interviewingNew or greatly expanded coverage of interviewing short-term, involuntary, and other special clientsExpanded coverage of techniques for bridging racial and ethnic differencesGreater coverage of interviewer/interviewee differences related to class, race, and genderChapter-end summaries throughout.

SYNOPSIS

For twenty-five years, The Social Work Interview has been the textbook of choice in social work and other human service courses, as well as an essential professional resource for practitioners. This new edition is thoroughly updated, revised, expanded, and reorganized for more thorough coverage and for more effective teaching and learning.

FROM THE CRITICS

Ronald H. Rooney

Adds practical, research based guidelines for interviewing involuntary adults and sexually abused children useful to both the student and the graduate practitioner.

John F. Longres

This has always been my text of choice and this new edition solidifies my belief that it is by far the best and most thorough social work oriented interviewing text available. . . . I am especially impressed by the extended information on listening, non-verbal communication, transitions, the use of interpreters, interpreting the deaf, and interviewing involuntary clients.

Ronald W. Toseland

The finest, most comprehensive text on the subject. The 4th edition, thoroughly updated and expanded, uses a phase approach to the interview process which is unmatched by any current text.

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