Interviewing in Health and Human Services

By Krishna Samantrai

This text presents an innovative approach to learning and teaching the art of interviewing in the increasingly diverse and complex field of human services. Using a clear straightforward language,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0830414509
• ISBN13: 9780830414505
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Interviewing as a difficult task

Issues of diversity and various emphases on culture, etc have made the interviewing process more difficult and complicated. Recently this book was recommended to me by an instructor. Although it is ten years old, it provides a wonderful approach and framework for a biopsychosocial model that breaks the interviewing process into more simplified parts. This makes the interview process more manageable. It also helps retain meaning while providing a method or schematic that enables the interviewer to gain greater insight and understanding of the person, which has the effect of preserving the identity of the individual (or group for that matter). In fact, this is the beauty of the approach this book takes, because it is not simply a structural view, although the structure is critical, rather it is how you can use structure in an interview to isolate out the biopsychosocial issues and still have a person left--rather than a heap of data and facts whose meaning corresponds to a process or an assessment heavily focused on external issues/responses. All in all, this approach permits a better understanding to personal identity and how one relates from the inside out; instead of testing the person to see how they might react externally, and basing an assessment of what is going on iniside the person on external issues rather than one's internality where the issues are actually formed, housed and taking place.