Chapter 8 The Chinical Interview

Question 1

Assessment techniques should possess

Answer 1

Validity
Reliability
Utility
Also commonly involve clients feedback

Question 2

What kind of information would we want to gather from a client

Answer 2

Birth and development
Family of origin
Education, employment, sexual, relationship history
Recreation
Alcohol and drugs
Physical health
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Question 3

General skills an interviewer should have

Answer 3

Quieting yourself
Being self-aware
Ability to develop a positive working relantionship

Question 4

Specific behaviors an interviewer should have

Answer 4

Eye contact
Body language
Vocal qualities
Verbal tracking
Referring to the client by the proper name

Question 5

Rapport

Answer 5

Positive comfortable relationship between interviewer and client
Leads to client disclosing more information

Question 6

Directive technique

Answer 6

Questions targeted toward specific information

Question 7

Nondirective technique

Answer 7

Allows the client to guide the course of the interview

Question 8

Open and closed ended questions

Answer 8

Large impact on the information a client provides
Open allows for individualized response
Closed allows for less elaboration and self expression

Question 9

Clarification

Answer 9

Question is to make sure the interviewer has an accurate understanding of the clients commments

Question 10

Confrontation

Answer 10

When an interviewer notices discrepancies or inconsistent in an clients comments

Question 11

Paraphrasing

Answer 11

Used to assure the clients that they are being heard
Repharasing the content of the clients message

Question 12

Reflection of feeling

Answer 12

Echoes the client’s emotions- make the client feel that their emotions are being recognizes
Interviewer is making an inference

Question 13

Summarizing

Answer 13

Involves tying together various topics that may have been discussed and identifying themes that have recurred

Question 14

Pragmatics of the interview

Answer 14

Note taking
Audio and video recording- requires written permission
The interview room- clients are confortable in neat room

Question 15

What is an intake interview

Answer 15

To deter Maine whether to intake the client- whether the client need treatment and why type

Question 16

What is a diagnostic interview

Answer 16

Purpose to diagnose the client
Assign DSM diagnosis

Question 17

What is a structured interview

Answer 17

A perdetermined, planned sequence of questions that an interviewer asks a clients

Question 18

What is an unstructured interview

Answer 18

No predetermined or planned questions— interviewers instead improvise based on what they believe is relevant during the interview

Question 19

Structured Clinical Interview for DSM Disorders (SCID)

Answer 19

Provide a diagnosis based explicitly on DSM criteria
• Tend to be more highly reliable
• Format is typically rigid—can inhibit rapport
• Don’t typically allow for inquiries such as relationship issues, personal history, etc.
• Tend to be fairly lengthy

Question 20

What is a mental status exam

Answer 20

Assesses how the client is functioning at the time of evaluation
General appearance and behavior, speech and thought, consciousness, perception, memory

Question 21

What is a crisis interview

Answer 21

Special type of clinical interview that is designed to assess a problem demanding urgent attention (most often clients considering suicide or harming others) and provide immediate intervention
• Must quickly establish rapport, express empathy for crisis

Question 22

Five issues in a crisis interview

Answer 22

How depressed is the client?
Does the client have suicidal thoughts?
Does the client have a suicide plan?
How much self-control does the client currently appear to have?
Does the client have definite suicidal intentions?