title: Our favorite tips for interviewing couples and families.
abstract: Interviewing couples and families can be the most overwhelming and challenging of all clinical situations. The authors present three techniques--radical acceptance, the romantic history, and wishes into goals--that they have found helpful to couples and families and also to clinicians themselves as they cope with their own feelings and reactions while interviewing couples and families.
authors.affiliation: Educational Leadership and Counseling, The University of Montana, 724 Eddy Street, Missoula, MT 59812, USA. john.sf@mso.umt.edu
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sommers-Flanagan
authors.forename: Rita
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sommers-Flanagan
mesh_terms: D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007406:Interview, Psychological / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male