Choices: Interviewing and Counselling Skills for Canadians, 8th edition

Published by Pearson Canada (3 January 2022) © 2023

  • Bob Shebib Douglas College

Title overview

Choices has found a home in a wide variety of professional training programs in social work, criminology, nursing, child and youth care, addictions, and psychology as well as training for professionals and volunteers in other professions whose work involves interviewing and counselling.

A continuing best seller in Canada, Choices is designed as a textbook and practice reference guide for students and practitioners that combines theory, practice examples with sample interviews, and challenging self-awareness exercises in a comprehensive yet readable format. The book includes illustrative practice examples and challenging exercises that promote skill development, conceptual understanding, and self-awareness. Throughout the book, I have included neuroscience concepts that have particular relevance for counsellors. Although framed in the Canadian ethical and cultural context, the content of the book is designed to appeal to a broad international audience of professionals.

Table of contents

  1. Professional Identity: Ethics, Values, and Self-Awareness
  2. Cultural Intelligence
  3. The Process, Skills, and Pitfalls of Counselling
  4. Relationship: The Foundation for Change
  5. Listening & Responding: The Basis for Understanding
  6. Asking Questions: The Search for Meaning
  7. Empathic Connections
  8. Supporting Empowerment and Change
  9. Engaging with Hard-to-Reach Clients
  10. Health and Substance Misuse
  11. Neuroscience and Counselling

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