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Interviewing is involved in every single one of your roles described in this book and probably many more besides. In the home and the ward you will be interviewing children, the ageing, the dying, the bereaved and the psychologically disturbed. You obviously have to do this before you can formulate any treatment programme. You have to discover their motivation or willingness to get well, their degree of pain, their interest and so on. You may interview in the process of carrying out research or in making a psychometric assessment; you will interview new students coming into your department, potential new staff members, other members of the therapeutic team and those to do with hospital administration; and, most importantly, you will conduct many interviews in your role as psychological therapist.
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Annotated reading
Argyle, M. (1975) Bodily Communication. London: Methuen. A popular account of different aspects of non-verbal behaviour. Compare and contrast this approach with Goffman. Goffman is much more ‘cognitive’, whilst Argyle is more ‘behavioural’. Is there scope for both approaches?
Goffman, E. (1959) The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Harmondsworth: Penguin. Based on astute observations of everyday life. It is essentially a theory of action in relation to the observing and listening other (i.e. his conception of the audience is critical to his portrayal of action). Consider the relevance of this book to the problems faced by the interviewee as he prepares for an interview.
Kahn, R.L. and Cannell, C.F. (1957) The Dynamics of Interviewing: Theory, technique and cases. New York: Wiley. Available in paperback. This has been the standard work for over 20 years. Presents a group dynamic approach to the interview. Concerned with the events of feedback as a way of improving interviewing skills, for example, such self-confrontation devices as tape-recorders. Needs to be up-dated to include video-feedback. Basically very sound.
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Farr, R. (1982). Interviewing: the social psychology of the interview. In: Psychology for Occupational Therapists. Psychology for Professional Groups. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16882-8_9
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