Counseling the Communicatively Disabled and Their Families: A Manual for Clinicians

by Shames; George H.

• ISBN13: 9780805857436
• ISBN10: 0805857435
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1/10/2006
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

Counseling the Communicatively Disabled and Their Families: A Manual for Clinicians, Second Edition, written by George H. Shames, emphasizes the development of specific interviewing and counseling skills for speech-language pathologists and audiologists, which is now a requirement of ASHA's clinical certification standards. The book offers a clear, basic definition of counseling then builds a picture of the multidimensional role of counseling in speech-language pathology and audiology using anecdotal references to clinical cases. Among the changes in the Second Edition, Dr. Shames, a licensed speech-language pathologist as well as a licensed clinical psychologist, has expanded the theoretical overviews that ground the "learning by doing" skill development feature of this updated edition. Practicing clinicians and students in communication disorders programs, in addition to social workers and clinical psychologists, will find this book invaluable to their training as focused, helpful evaluators and counselors of the communicatively disabled. It will also apply to training in other contexts and circumstances wherein counseling is appropriate.

Table of Contents

About the Author	xi
Preface to the Second Edition	xiii
Preface to the First Edition	xv
1 Introduction	1	(3)
2 Getting Comfortable With Counseling	4	(11)
3 The Relationship Between Speech/Language/Hearing Therapy and Counseling	15	(5)
4 The Clinical Relationship	20	(5)
5 The Counseling Interview	25	(11)
Integrating Person-Centered Therapy (Rogers); Microcounseling (Ivey); and Operant Conditioning (Skinner)
6 Listening and Attending	36	(5)
Suggested Practice Projects
7 Specific Facilitative Interviewing Behaviors	41	(21)
Attending Behaviors
Reflecting Feeling
Summarizing Feelings
Suggested Practice Projects
8 More Advanced Interviewing and Counseling Skills	62	(18)
Sharing
Confrontation
Interpretation
Clarification
Suggested Practice Projects
9 Special Events During the Interview	80	(8)
Silence Crying
Emotional Expressions Toward the Counselor
Suggested Practice Projects
10 Facilitative Holistic Attributes of the Counseling Interview	88	(24)
Suggested Practice Projects
11 Nonfacilitative Holistic Attributes of the Clinical Interview	112	(29)
Suggested Practice Projects
12 Special Client Populations	141	(15)
Needs and Goals
Accessing Content and Feelings
Finding Exceptions/Emphasizing the Positive
The Assignment
Conversation Repair
Affirmations
Humor
13 Some Comments About the Outcomes of Therapy	156	(8)
Transcript of Counseling Sessions
Summary and Conclusions
Appendix A: Forms for Evaluating Clinical Interviews	164	(2)
Appendix B: Words to Describe Feelings	166	(6)
Bibliography	172	(1)
References	173	(4)
Author Index	177	(2)
Subject Index	179