* Designed to help students develop and refine the RcraftS of counseling, goes beyond basic skills and includes detailed intervention strategies, making it probably the most comprehensive book available on interviewing skills..* AuthorsU primary goals: to help students acquire a repertory of counseling interview skills and strategies; to enable them to select and use the appropriate counseling strategies when confronted with varying situations; and to provide them with ways to monitor and evaluate their own behavior & that of the client during counseling..* NEW: addition of multicultural references; problem-solving added to Ch. 15; less emphasis of NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming); incorporation of the DSM-IIIR (T87), replacing DSM-III (T80).