The Social Work Interview: A Guide for Human Service Professionals

Alfred Kadushin, Goldie Kadushin

Columbia University Press, 1997 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 458 pages

For twenty-five years, The Social Work Interview has been the textbook of choice in social work and other human service courses, as well as an essential professional resource for practitioners. This new edition, the first in seven years, is thoroughly updated-revised, expanded, and reorganized for more thorough coverage and for more effective teaching and learning.

New to this edition:

Thoroughly reorganized chapters and sections for greater coherence and clarity

More extensive literature review

Greater emphasis on the process of communication and its role in interviewing

New or greatly expanded coverage of interviewing short-term, involuntary, and other special clients

Expanded coverage of techniques for bridging racial and ethnic differences

Greater coverage of interviewer/interviewee differences related to class, race, and gender

Chapter-end summaries throughout.

About the author

Alfred Kadushin is Julia C. Lathrop Professor Emeritus of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Goldie Kadushin is a professor of social work in the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare. Her most recent book is, with Marcia Egan, Social Work Practice in Community-Based Health Care. She is also the author, with Alfred Kadushin, of The Social Work Interview: A Guide for Human Services Professionals, fourth edition, published by Columbia University Press. Alfred Kadushin is Julia C. Lathrop Professor Emeritus of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Goldie Kadushin is a professor of social work in the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare. Her most recent book is, with Marcia Egan, Social Work Practice in Community-Based Health Care. She is also the author, with Alfred Kadushin, of The Social Work Interview: A Guide for Human Services Professionals, fourth edition, published by Columbia University Press.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Social Work Interview: A Guide for Human Service Professionals; The Social Work Interview: A Guide for Human Service Professionals, Alfred Kadushin
• Authors: Alfred Kadushin, Goldie Kadushin
• Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1997
• ISBN: 0231096593, 9780231096591
• Length: 458 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies; Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare; Social Science / Human Services; Social Science / Social Work; Social Science / Sociology / General