Interviewing Skills

Question 1

Tasks of a psychiatric interview

Answer 1

Build a therapeutic alliance
Obtain demographic information
For a diagnosis
Negotiate treatment plan

Question 2

Basic concepts in approaching threatening topics

Answer 2

Use normalizing questions to decreases a sense of embarrassment
Use symptom expectation and reduction of guilt
Use symptom exaggeration
Familiar language

Question 3

Techniques when changing topics

Answer 3

Smooth transition
Referred transition
Introduced transition

Question 4

Repetition

Answer 4

Repeating the exact words of the patient

Question 5

Restatement

Answer 5

Similar to repetition but phrases are rearranged

Question 6

Summation

Answer 6

Brief summarization of what the patient has said up to a certain point into the interview

Question 7

Clarification

Answer 7

Doctor trie to get details from patients about what the patient has already said

Question 8

Facilitation

Answer 8

Helps the patient continue the interview by both verbal and non verbal encouragement