Interview Types/Skills
This type of interview gives the counselor the most flexibility to honor the client's concerns, culture, and interpersonal style.
What is an unstructured interview?
These questions often begin with what, when, or how and encourage a more expansive response.
What are open-ended questions?
A counselor may ask a client to rate the severity of a problem from 1 to 10. This is called this type of question.
What is a scaling question?
These factors help a client cope, resolve problems, and promote resiliency.
What are resource/protective factors?
This type of interview uses predetermined questions, but the counselor can change their order.
What is a semi-structured interview?
With younger children, counselors generally need to use more of these types of interviewing techniques.
What are non-verbal interviewing techniques?
When assessing a presenting problem, counselors explore when it began, how often it happens, how long it lasts, and this measure of how serious or intense it is.
What is severity (or intensity)?
A client says, “I don't really have a problem. My family is the reason I'm here.” This client is most likely in this stage of change.
What is precontemplation?
These linking statements connect an assessment question to something the client has already shared.
What are bridges?
Drawing, dollhouse play, puppets, and the Three Wishes activity are examples of techniques used when gathering information from this population.
What are techniques for gathering information from children?
Environmental, interpersonal, and intrapersonal are three types of these factors that may affect when or how severely a client's problem occurs.
What are situational factors?
A client recognizes that they have a problem but has mixed feelings about actually changing. This describes this stage of change.
What is contemplation?