Understanding and being understood in conversation is not as simple as one might commonly believe - not in private life and certainly not in a professional setting. This work is aimed at practitioners and those with a professional interest for whom conducting goal-oriented conversations is of professional relevance, as well as students and educators in psychology, pedagogy, and social work. Based on a new approach to the methodology of psycholinguistic conversation analysis that has not been published in this form before, the book starts from genuine linguistic conditions of dialogical conversation in a professional context and provides foundational knowledge for language comprehension as well as tools for in-depth analysis of conversations.