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I have worked with a few other counselling texts over the years and find Choices: Interviewing and Counselling Skills for Canadians, to be one of the most.

Choices: Interviewing and Counselling Skills for Canadians Plus MyLab Search with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package, 5/E Bob Shebib, Douglas College productFormatCode=P31 productCategory=2 statusCode=8 isBuyable=false subType=subNext path/ProductBean/courseSmart ISBN-10: • ISBN-13: 62253619 ©2014 • Pearson Education Canada • Paper Bound with Access Card Published  This item has been replaced. This item has been replaced. ProdCategory: 2 statusCode: 8. Helping students develop professional counselling competency.

The preferred text in its discipline, Choices: Interview and Counselling Skills for Canadians, is a practical guide that helps Canadian professionals develop the knowledge, abilities, and attitudes required for effective interviewing and counselling. It strives to help students gain a wide range of skills based on supported theory and evidence-based best practices. Readable, student-friendly, and jargon-free, Choices is appropriate for students from numerous disciplines including social work, youth justice, child and youth care counselling, addictions, psychology, teaching, general nursing, and psychiatric nursing. Teaching & Learning Experience • Personalize Learning—The new MySearchLab delivers proven results in helping student succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals. Smartart dlya prezentacii. • Engage Students—Mock teacher-student conversations, sample annotated interviews, and illustrative figures all keep students engaged and interested in the material. • Support Student Learning—Learning objectives, bulleted chapter summaries, end-of-chapter reflective questions, and success tips provides a complete pedagogical package to assist student learning. • Support Instructors—An Instructor’s Resource Manual, Test Bank, and PowerPoint presentations are just some of the resources available to provide instructors with the ultimate supplements package.

Features DEVELOP COUNSELLING COMPETENCY • Covers the four phases of the counselling relationship: preliminary, beginning, action, and ending. • Develops professional competency in four main areas: • It introduces basic concepts and models to help learners understand the theory and philosophy of effective counselling intervention skills. • It provides realistic examples to illustrate concepts in action.

• It contains challenging exercises that promote skill development, conceptual understanding, and self-awareness. • It emphasizes the importance of a range of skill choices for interviewing, rather than rules and recipes. • Discusses the ethics and core values of interviewing. • Conversations boxes present teacher-student dialogues of frequently asked questions. • Sample annotated interview excerpts illustrate and explain chapter concepts.

• Success Tips provide short, practical ideas for counselling success. These tips are also compiled into an appendix for quick reference.

• Illustrative Figures support or embellish chapter concepts. • Teaches students to view cultural differences as opportunities to widen their horizons and deepen their versatility. • Teaches student self-awareness so that their values and beliefs do not become a burden to their clients. PERSONALIZE LEARNING WITH MYSEARCHLAB • The new MySearchLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals. • The Pearson eText allows students to access their textbook anytime, anywhere, and any way they want—including on their iPad. Features of the eText include: • Hyperlinked URLs at the end of each chapter direct students to websites related to that chapter’s content. • Multimedia assets in the margins of each chapter that link directly to videos, flash cards, and case studies.