Clinical Interviewing

by Sommers-Flanagan, Rita; Sommers-Flanagan, John

• ISBN13: 9780471295679
• ISBN10: 0471295671
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-01
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Summary

This clinical interviewing primer blends a personal and easy-to-read style with a unique emphasis on both the scientific foundations and interpersonal aspects of mental health interviewing. Written from an integrative/eclectic perspective, this edition also incorporates modifications made necessary by the rise of managed care and by revised thinking in the interviewing field related to DSM-IV. New chapters have been added on suicide assessment interviewing; interviewing teens, couples, and families; multicultural interviewing; and stress management techniques for the interviewer.

Table of Contents

Part One Becoming a Mental Health Professional	3	(58)
Chapter 1 Introduction: Philosophy and Organization	3	(13)
Welcome to the Journey	4	(1)
Teaching Philosophy	4	(3)
Theoretical Orientations	7	(2)
Basic Requirements for Clinical Interviewers	9	(4)
Goals and Objectives of This Book	13	(1)
Summary	14	(1)
Suggested Readings and Resources	14	(2)
Chapter 2 Foundations	16	(19)
Toward a Definition of Clinical Interviewing	17	(1)
Clarifying Initial Assumptions and Issues	17	(7)
Self-Awareness	24	(7)
Interviewing Expectations and Misconceptions	31	(1)
Effective Interviewing: Seven Vocational Perspectives	31	(2)
Summary	33	(1)
Suggested Readings and Resources	34	(1)
Chapter 3 Preparations	35	(26)
The Physical Setting	35	(9)
Professional and Ethical Issues	44	(12)
Summary	56	(1)
Suggested Readings and Resources	57	(4)
Part Two Listening and Relationship Development	61	(98)
Chapter 4 Basic Attending Skills	61	(28)
Attending Behavior	62	(8)
The Relationship between Attending and Listening	70	(1)
Giving Constructive Feedback	71	(1)
Moving beyond Attending	72	(2)
Nondirective Listening Responses	74	(13)
The Pull to Reassurance	87	(1)
Summary	87	(1)
Suggested Readings and Resources	88	(1)
Chapter 5 Directives: Listening and Action Responses	89	(34)
Directive Listening Responses	90	(5)
Using Questions	95	(14)
Directive Action Responses	109	(12)
Summary	121	(1)
Suggested Readings and Resources	122	(1)
Chapter 6 Relationship Variables and Clinical Interviewing	123	(36)
Rapport	124	(3)
Carl Rogers's Core Conditions	127	(10)
The Relationship among Rogers's Core Conditions	137	(1)
Psychoanalytic and Interpersonal Relationship Variables	138	(10)
Relationship Variables and Behavioral and Social Psychology	148	(4)
Feminist Relationship Variables	152	(2)
Intergrating Relationship Variables	154	(1)
Summary	154	(1)
Suggested Readings and Resources	155	(4)
Part Three Structuring and Assessment	159	(148)
Chapter 7 An Overview of the Interview Process	159	(28)
Structural Models	160	(1)
The Introduction	161	(7)
The Opening	168	(6)
The Body	174	(5)
The Closing	179	(3)
Termination	182	(3)
Summary	185	(1)
Suggested Readings and Resources	186	(1)
Chapter 8 The Intake Interview	187	(28)
What Is an Intake Interview?	187	(2)
Objectives of Intake Interviewing	189	(19)
Factors Affecting Intake Interview Procedures	208	(2)
Brief Intake Interviewing: A Managed Care Model	210	(3)
Summary	213	(1)
Suggested Readings and Resources	214	(1)
Chapter 9 The Mental Status Examination	215	(29)
What Is a Mental Status Examination?	216	(1)
The Generic Mental Status Examination	216	(24)
When to Use Mental Status Examinations	240	(2)
Summary	242	(1)
Suggested Readings and Resources	243	(1)
Chapter 10 Suicide Assessment	244	(32)
Personal Reactions to Suicide	246	(1)
Suicide Statistics	246	(1)
Considering Suicide Myths	247	(1)
Risk Factors Associated with Suicide	248	(5)
Conducting a Thorough Suicide Assessment	253	(8)
Crisis Intervention with Suicidal Clients	261	(5)
Professional Issues	266	(7)
Summary	273	(1)
Suggested Readings and Resources	274	(2)
Chapter 11 Diagnosis and Treatment Planning	276	(31)
Principles of Psychiatric Diagnosis	276	(7)
Diagnostic Assessment: Methods and Procedures	283	(3)
A Balanced Approach to Conducting Diagnostic Clinical Interviews	286	(6)
Treatment Planning	292	(3)
An Integrated (Biopsychosocial) Approach to Treatment Planning	295	(8)
Summary	303	(1)
Suggested Readings and Resources	304	(3)
Part Four Interviewing Special Populations	307	(90)
Chapter 12 Interviewing Young Clients	307	(32)
Special Considerations in Working with Children	308	(2)
The Introduction	310	(2)
The Opening	312	(9)
The Body	321	(13)
The Closing	334	(2)
Termination	336	(1)
Summary	337	(1)
Suggested Readings and Resources	337	(2)
Chapter 13 Interviewing Couples and Families	339	(33)
Some Paradoxes of Interviewing Couples and Families	340	(2)
Interviewing Stages and Tasks	342	(18)
Formal Couple and Family Assessment Procedures	360	(1)
Special Considerations	360	(10)
Summary	370	(1)
Suggested Readings and Resources	371	(1)
Chapter 14 Multicultural and Diversity Issues in Interviewing	372	(25)
Relationship in the Context of Diversity	372	(3)
The Big Four	375	(9)
Other Diverse Client Populations	384	(4)
The Perils and Potentials of Asking about Diversity	388	(4)
Issues in Diagnosis and Assessment	392	(1)
Summary	393	(1)
Suggested Readings and Resources	394	(3)
References	397	(26)
About the Authors	423	(2)
Index	425