Interviewing: Theories, Techniques and Practices (5th Edition)
This comprehensive text on interviewing presents the theories, techniques, and practices based on a systematic theoretical training model. Drawing on over thirty years of classroom and in-services training experience, the author has incorporated the first and second waves of interviewing research into a text that can be used for classroom instruction or as an interviewing or training manual or curriculum model. The structural foundations for the book are the fields of communication/ human relations training, police psychology, counseling psychology, forensic psychology, and, multicultural training. The approach of the book is from an evidence-based perspective. Some of the salient features of the text are:Interviewing and InterrogationStructured InterviewsArt or Science?Interviewing and Interrogation ResearchDetecting DeceptionNon-Verbal CommunicationLegal and Ethical StandardsMulticultural InterviewingInterviewing OffendersA Basic Skills ModelInterviewing TheoryConfrontation and Assertion SkillsFuture Trends in InterviewingStudents or trainees progress through a seven-stage process model of skill development. Skill acquisition can be enhanced by written exercises, interview challenges, self-evaluation, and self-assessments, which are included with each chapter.