Interview Techniques

Question 1

How to ask about suicide?

Answer 1

Have any thoughts of death?
Any thoughts of ending your life?

Any options on how? How close have you got?

Question 2

How to ask about sexual abuse?

Answer 2

Any traumatic events in your life?

Any sexual or physical abuse?

Question 3

3 predictive of violence?

Answer 3

Severe mental illness
Substance abuse/dependence?
History of violence?

Question 4

What are Socratic questions?

Answer 4

Why do you say that?
How did you come to understand this?
What is the evidence?
Is there any other way to look at it?
What have you done because of this?

What do you make of all this?have you always felt this way? What does your family think?