Choices: Interviewing and Counselling Skills for Canadians

by Bob Shebib

Intended for courses in basic counselling and/or interviewing offered in universities and colleges. These courses are typically found in Social Work, Human Services, Nursing, Criminology, and Education departments. This practice-oriented counselling textbook includes a wealth of pedagogical aids to help students understand and apply the different concepts that are introduced. It features a lucid, easy-to-follow writing style with complex ideas presented in an accessible manner. As the only Canadian text in the field, Choices holds a definite competitive advantage. Having recently written a US version of this book for Allyn & Bacon, Bob Shebib's main goal for this revision was to make the second edition more Canadian focused.

Genres: Psychology, Textbooks, Social Work, Read For School, Nonfiction, Counselling, School

384 pages, Paperback

First published April 15, 2002

Reviews

[Domenic]

Great for anyone wanting to gain an understanding of effective counselling skills. These include; paraphrasing, summarizing, empathy, questioning, and a variety of other techniques.

[Jason Comely]

Incredibly useful guidebook. I like how the chapter exercises are challenging and realistic. No doubt I'll be referencing this book in the future.

[Degan Walters]

Comprehensive and easy to understand. good examples.

[Aim]

For a novice, this is single-handedly one of the most important books I’ve read on how to ensure client success.

[Jocelyn]

Read the 8th edition of this. It's really interesting to see therapy through the therapist's POV!

[Dee Barkhouse]

This is the one text book I still reference

[Arash Narchi]

Lots of practical and applicable skills for counselling professionals but also applies to the general public

[Breyanna]

Helpful for all human service practitioners. Lots of good information in this book.

[Katie]

Possibly the least-awful textbook I've had to read for school

[Rachel]

An incredibly valuable resource for developing counselling skills! I learned so much and found the sample scenarios to be especially useful.

[Madison Hillis]

I found this book to be bland but helpful in the end. I would recommend reading it if in grad school in the psychology field, push through

[Tina Ihas]

Great source of basic counselling skills but holy typos Batman! Overall I enjoyed it but I was put off by the occasion missing letter or wrong word (form instead of from). Now considering a side career as a textbook proofreader. ;)