Mock Interview Summary

The body and closing of an interview is important because when counselors are working with the client, they work to gain information on the reason why the client has come to counseling as well as their theoretical mind (Sommers-Flanagan & Sommers-Flanagan, 2016). The process of the interview starts when the counselor develops a therapeutic relationship with the client. This assignment will look at documentation and outline the process of the mock interview along with administer a self-evaluation of the interviewer interviewing skills as well as the approach where the interviewee can talk freely or non-directive approach was applied during the body and the closing phase of the interview.
In this mock interview, the interviewer will be deciding on the level of anxiety of the client and observation to the criteria of anxiety. In this selection, the interviewee from the mock interview #1, volunteered to this mock interview. When looking at the criteria for anxiety, counsels need to use the body of the interview. Starcevic and Portman (2013), talked about how counselors should not mix of the generalized anxiety disorder with being just generally worried as they examine the changes in the DSV5 criteria. Looking atthe APA (2013), the DSM5 has a list of diagnosis for anxiety disorders, …show more content…
As she is driving, she gets anxious about go to work. She states that she is a mother, a student, and she works full time as a manager and she feel more anxious at her job than she does at home, her job is very stressful, and financially, it is not as financial fulfilling for her. Sometimes, it happens at home, sometimes because she gets so overwhelms, cooking, cleaning, helping her kids with homework, and then trying to finish her own homework. She lets the interviewer know, she tries to take some time to relax, close her eyes, not answer phone calls and listen to music, talk with one of her