The Social Work Interview

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 clarity More extensive literature review Greater emphasis on the process of communication and its role in interviewing New or greatly expanded coverage of interviewing short-term, involuntary, and other special clients Expanded coverage of techniques for bridging racial and ethnic differences Greater coverage of interviewer/interviewee differences related to class, race, and gender Chapter-end summaries throughout.

Table of Contents:
Contents Introduction xiii I. General Orientation and Basic Concepts of Interviewing and Communication, 1 1. The Interview in Social Work, 3 2. The Interview as Communication, 27 3. Listening: A Basic Communication Skill, 49 II. Sequential Phases in the Interview Process and Associated Techniques, 63 4. Introductory Phase, 65 5. Beginning the Interview: First Phase Objective -- Establishing a Relationship, 99 6. Problem Exploration Phase, 135 7. Developmental Phase: Problem-Solving Interventions, 173 8. Developmental Phase: More Problem-Solving Interventions, 205 9. Developmental Phase: Questions and Questioning Techniques, 235 10. Termination, Recording, and Evaluation, 271 III. Some Special Problems in Interviewing, 285 11. Nonverbal Communication, 287 12. Cross-Cultural Interviewing, 321 13. Some Problematic Interviews: The Involuntary Adult Client and the Sexually Abused Child, 355 IV. The Essence of the Good Interviewer, 387 14. The Competent Interviewer, 389 Appendix: Transcribed Interview and Critique, 407 References, 425 Index, 447

About the Author :
Alfred Kadushin is Julia C. Lathrop Professor Emeritus of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Goldie Kadushin is a professor of social work in the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare. Her most recent book is, with Marcia Egan, Social Work Practice in Community-Based Health Care. She is also the author, with Alfred Kadushin, of The Social Work Interview: A Guide for Human Services Professionals, fourth edition, published by Columbia University Press.

Review :
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. -- John F. Longres, author of Human Behavior and the Social Environment Adds practical, research based guidelines for interviewing involuntary adults and sexually abused children useful to both the student and the graduate practitioner. -- Ronald H. Rooney, University of Minnesota