INTENTIONAL INTERVIEWING AND COUNSELING: FACILITATING CLIENT DEVELOPMENT IN A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 8th Edition, with its Microskills model, is the most thoroughly researched and classroom-tested counseling skills text available. In this edition, every chapter has been reviewed to further enhance clarity and relevance, and to integrate updated research findings. * The popular five-stage interview structure--relationship, story and strengths, goals, restory, and action--integrates these concepts and helps students understand and utilize microskills more effectively. The model also makes is easier for students to generalize the five stages to multiple theories and practices in human relations, social work, counseling, and psychotherapy. * Integration of cutting-edge neuroscience includes discussion of the specific impact of neuroscience on interviewing practice. An appendix describes additional practical implications. * The book"s interactive, dialogical view of the interview illustrates how the language and brain of both counselor and client are changed throughout the process. This coverage helps students understand the concepts of consciousness, short-term memory, and how their skills can help the client move new thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to long-term memory. * Readers are shown, step by step, how to conduct effective motivational interviewing counseling, assertiveness-training sessions, decisional interviews, and person-centered interviews.