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Intentional Interviewing and

Counseling: Facilitating Client
Development in a Multicultural Society,
by Allen E. Ivey, Mary B. Ivey and
Carlos P. Zalaquett
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Losana Chan
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Counselling and Psychology , Hong Kong Shue Yan University
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 186 Book reviews

The second part of the book reviews the research evidence of mindfulness-based
intervention for mental and physical health. It is pointed out that the research evidence is
currently strongest for MB therapy in the domain of physical ailments, but that rapid
progress – and a recent outpouring of research funding – has been achieved in gathering
more data for mindfulness-based interventions for anxiety, mood, eating and sleep disorders.
The third part of the book seeks to expand the paradigm by applying MB therapies to
Self-care for Clinicians, exploring Farther Reaches of Human Potential and Future Directions.
A set of appendices include instructions for several types of meditations (the body scan,
sitting meditation and walking meditation) and a hefty listing of supplemental resources.
Interspersed throughout the book are helpful sidebars titled ‘Mindful Reminders’ that
serve to mindfully guide and focus the reader’s attention to a variety of phenomena charac-
terizing the present moment and one’s awareness of it. I found this book to be very well
written, documented and informative for professional and lay audiences alike.
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© 2010 Mark Greene

Hong Kong Shue Yan University
Email: mgreene@hksyu.edu

Intentional Interviewing and Counseling: Facilitating Client Development in a

2150-7708
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Book Pacific
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Psychotherapy Vol. 1, No. 1, Jul 2010: pp. 0–0

Multicultural Society, by Allen E. Ivey, Mary B. Ivey and Carlos P. Zalaquett, Belmont,
CA, Brooks–Cole, 2010, 512 pp., US$109.95, ISBN 0495601233

This book introduces various techniques in interviewing and counseling for today’s
diverse society. It covers important ground: the basic criteria of counseling skills, including
ethnical concerns, wellness and positive psychology; the theoretical and practical integration
of skills; and the development of personal style. The emphasis is on the all-round training
of interviewers and counselors.
The book is divided into four sections. The first section defines interviewing, coun-
seling and psychotherapy, and explains the necessity of developing effective skills based
on professional ethics, multicultural competence and positive wellness. There is also an
introduction to the basics of listening skills. Section two focuses on communication and
interviews, including active listening techniques and their integration in interview stages.
Sections three and four overview advanced techniques and integration of skills into different
counseling theories. Each chapter is enriched by comprehensive and very well-organized
competency practice exercises and self-assessments, which help students to evaluate their
skills and seek feedback from others concerning their practical learning. However, whilst
the order of chapters and skills seems logical, it may not fit instructors and students from
different counseling approaches, and might need to be rearranged according to educators’
preferences.
In light of recent developments in the counseling and psychotherapy field, the new
edition was strengthened by a new co-author, Dr Carlos P. Zalaquett, a specialist in mental
health counselling at the University of South Florida. Other changes in the new edition
include significant updates in the example interviews, references and suggested readings;
more emphasis on professional development of interviewers and counselors; and integration
of theory, practice and personal styles. There is also an illustration of the application of
techniques to other related fields, such as coaching, supervision and lifetime growth.
In contrast to a number of alternative textbooks and training guides on counseling skills,
which tend to focus on one specific approach, this book hinges on five approaches: decisional,
 Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy 187

person-centered, cognitive-behavioral, brief counseling and motivational interviewing. It

also includes a positive reframing of the existential approach; stress management of the cog-
nitive behavioral approach; and the RESPECTFUL framework of multicultural counseling.
I am particularly fond of Table 15-2 (p. 448), which nicely summarises the microskills pat-
terns of interviewing, because it helps my students to understand the use of microskills in
different approaches, and has variety to fit different orientations.
Since this book is research-informed, supported by over 450 research-based studies,
each chapter has up-to-date information. A good example is the new research discussed in
Box 9-1 on p. 242 about confrontation, neuroscience, supportive challenge and stress
management. Other examples are the insights into counseling neuroscience research
which emphasizes the ‘here and now’ and ‘immediacy’, helpful to most counseling
approaches, and the interdisciplinary integration, in the appendix section, of neuroscience
research into interviewing, counseling and psychotherapy.
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Although this book is culturally sensitive, as a lecturer in Hong Kong teaching Chinese
students, I have found that some sections are not always relevant. For instance, in my
classes I modify the guidelines in Chapter 4 concerning questioning skills, as the questions
sometimes come across as awkward and unnatural. One problem is that the sentence structure
and meanings of the questions do not always work in the Hong Kong counselling setting,
mainly due to translation issues and differences in communication styles between East and
West. For example, whereas questions in English are often identified through the question
words, Chinese has more than one word for question words such as ‘who’ or ‘when’. Also,
question words are often placed at the beginning of questions in English, but in the middle
or the end of Chinese sentences. We need to adapt the skills to our own cultural settings.
All in all, I found the new edition of this book well-written and organized in a way that
is reader-friendly, and easy to follow. It has been well received in my counseling classes
in Hong Kong, and feedback from students has been positive. The latter part of this book
is extremely beneficial to interviewers and counselors who want to further develop them-
selves professionally in this field.
© 2010 Losana Chan
Counselling and Psychology, Hong Kong Shue Yan University
Email: losanachan@yahoo.com

Footbinding: A Jungian Engagement with Chinese Culture and Psychology, by

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Shirley See Yan Ma, Abingdon, Routledge, 2009, 204 pp., £22.99, ISBN 4150485067

The tradition of footbinding existed in China for over 1000 years, from the Tang to the
Qing Dynasty. Within this tradition, girls were forced to have their feet bound from the
age of six or seven with the eventual aim of producing Golden Lotuses – half-moon
shaped stumps of no more than three inches, whereas the average size of women’s feet is
about nine to ten inches.
In her book, Ma succinctly recounts the cultural and social history of footbinding, and
accurately identifies this practice as the objectification of women and the subjugation of
the female to the male. She further ascertains that Confucianism and its many precepts
provided the philosophical underpinning of footbinding, and that the practice remained
popular for more than a millennium because Confucian canons became the core material
for entrance examinations of the meritocracy.
Ma’s elucidation reveals that footbinding, although brutal, was considered necessary
to render daughters marriageable. As the binding progressed, the physical mobility of the