INTERVENTION: Subdomain 8: Effective Interviewing Flashcards
What is the biopsychosocial approach to intake interviews?
(Meyer & Melcert, 2011)
- Holistic integration of biological, psychological,
and sociocultural factors - Biopsychosocial (BPS) – best approach
- Comprehensive, integrative, and well known
- Introduced by Engel (1977)
—Argued biomedical approach incorrectly assumed a single cause of mental illness (not an interaction)
—Need to incorporate psychological sociocultural factors
Mnemonic for primary interview skills?
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What are the 8 primary interview skills? (basics)
(Berman & Shopland, 2005)
8 primary interview skills:
- Attending behavior
- Empathetic concerns
- Open-ended questions
- Reflective listening
- Redirection
- Process comments
- Supportive confrontations
- Summarizing
What are the primary interview skills? (1 + 2)
(Berman & Shopland, 2005)
- Attending Behavior
* Verbal/nonverbal behavior showing the therapist
listening and trying to understand
——Verbal bx –> rate of speech, intonation, sighs, etc.
——Nonverbal bx –> eye contact, body orientation, facial expressions, careful pauses, etc.
————Therapist nonverbally reflecting the client’s emotions may help identify their emotions –> nonverbal mirroring
——(Client’s?) Congruency of verbal + nonverbal = more trust in therapist - Empathetic comments
—Attempt to tell client their perspective is understood and valued
—Give emotional support and validation
What are the primary interview skills? (3 + 4)
(Berman & Shopland, 2005)
- Open-ended questions –> elicit complex, detailed information from client
—* Allow creativity for client
—* Closed questions can be helpful for brief, smaller nuggets of info - Reflective Listening
—* Focuses client’s attention on their thoughts
—* Can be just reflecting what the client just said
What are the primary interview skills? (5 + 6)
5. Redirection
—* Comment of emotional support → gentle redirection to subject of interest
—* Prevent client avoidance of topics
- Process Comments
—* Focus on what’s happening here in the room
—* Between therapist-client
—* Clarify interpersonal patterns across relationships (how they interact with therapist)
Berman & Shopland, 2005
What are the primary interview skills? (7 + 8)
- Supportive Confrontations
* Bring attention to negative consequences of client behavior
* Couch between affirming statements
* Only do after sufficient rapport made
* Should be specific and concrete - Summarizing
* Review of info the client gave
* Allows client to correct therapist
* Demonstrates listening
* Highlights themes
* Decreases emotional intensity
Berman & Shopland, 2005
SUBDOMAIN 8 CITATIONS
SUBDOMAIN 8 CITATIONS
Meyer & Melcert, 2011
Engel, 1977
Meyer & Melcert, 2011
Engel, 1977
- What is the biopsychosocial approach to intake interviews?
Berman & Shopland, 2005
Berman & Shopland, 2005
- What are the 8 primary interview skills?
