Our favorite tips for interviewing couples and families.
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.
Sommers-Flanagan
John
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Educational Leadership and Counseling, The University of Montana, 724 Eddy Street, Missoula, MT 59812, USA. john.sf@mso.umt.edu
Sommers-Flanagan
Rita
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D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007406:Interview, Psychological / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male