Interviewing is one of the most important skills that you'll use in your career.This proven text gives you the tools you need to conduct successful interviews with diverse clients in a variety of professional settings, including social work, counseling, nursing, personnel work, and human services.With an emphasis on the three major stages of interviewing: exploration, clarification, and action, ESSENTIAL INTERVIEWING offers the same programmed-learning model of interviewing that has successfully trained countless members of the helping professions for nearly 30 years.The text makes interview skills clear and specific -- and exposes you to a variety of client situations and cultures.Each chapter highlights an ethical situation you may confront in your future career, further grounding you in current standards of professional practice.