**Readings
McClam, T., & Woodside, M. (2012). The helping process: Assessment to termination. Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning.
Chapter 2, “The Assessment Phase” (Review)
Chapter 4, “Effective Intake Interviewing” (Review)
Chapter 6, “Service Delivery Planning”
Jones, K. D. (2010). The unstructured clinical interview. Journal of Counseling & Development, 88(2), 220–226.
***To prepare for this Assignment:
*Review the following scenario:
You are conducting an interview with an individual who had come to the community resource center at which you work. The interviewee is in need of employment, health care, and educational resources. The purpose of this interview is to gather more information in order to determine an appropriate course of action. You remember that at the previous interview, which was a structured interview, the interviewee had expressed dissatisfaction with a similar organization in her former community but had not said why she was dissatisfied. You think an unstructured interview might yield more relevant information than a structured interview this time.
*Review the information in Chapter 4 in your course text, The Helping Process: Assessment to Termination. Focus on the section titled “Closed and Open Inquiries.”
*Review the information in Chapter 6 in your course text, The Helping Process: Assessment to Termination. Focus on the section titled “Gathering Additional Information.”
*Review the information in the article, “The Unstructured Clinical Interview,” found in the Learning Resources for this week. Focus on specific suggestions for how to formulate questions for an unstructured interview.
****The Assignment:
Submit a paper that includes the following:
*Three unstructured interview questions designed to gather information on the interviewees’ needs
*An explanation of the challenges you might experience during this interview. Include some potential topics the interviewee might be uncomfortable discussing. Include information from both the Learning Resources and from your experience that you could use to address this challenge.
*Two advantages and two limitations of unstructured interviews
