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The Clinical Interview Flashcards

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What is closely linked to the identity of clinical psychologists?

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Assessment is closely linked to the identity of clinical psychologists.

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Are there other mental health professions that incorporate assessment other than clinical psychologists?

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No other mental health profession
incorporates assessment into their work as
clinical psychologists do.

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What is the most frequent assessment tool?

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Clinical interviews are the most
frequent assessment tool

  • More than any specific test
  • Vast majority of practicing clinical
    psychologists use interviews
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What are the essential qualities of assessment techniques?

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All assessment techniques (including interviews)
should have adequate:
 Validity—measures what it claims to measure
 Reliability—yields consistent, repeatable results
 Clinical utility—benefits the clinician and ultimately the client

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What is validity?

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Validity is when the test measures what it claims to measure.

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What is content validity?

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The test has content appropriate for what is being measured.

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What is convergent validity?

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The test correlates with other techniques that measure the same thing.

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What is discriminant validity?

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The test does not correlate with techniques that measure something else.

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What is reliability?

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The test yields consistent, repeatable results.

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What is test-retest reliability?

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The test yields similar results across multiple administrations at different times.

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What is interrater reliability?

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The test yields similar results across different administrators.

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What is internal reliability?

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The test consists of items that are consistent with one another.

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What is clinical utility?

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The test improves delivery of services or client outcome.

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What is feedback?

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  1. Common to all kinds of psychological assessment
  2. Provide results of tests or interviews
  3. May be face-to-face, a report, etc.
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What are the general skills a clinical psychologist must have?

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  1. Quieting yourself
  2. Being self-aware
  3. Develop positive working relationships
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What is quieting yourself?

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Minimize excessive internal, self-directed thoughts that detract from listening

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What is being self-aware?

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Know how you tend to affect others interpersonally, and how others tend to relate to you

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What is develop positive working relationships?

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  1. Can segue into psychotherapy

2. Respectful and caring attitude is key

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What is the specific behavior a clinical interviewer must have?

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Listening

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What is listening?

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the primary task of the interviewer, consisting of numerous building blocks

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What are the building blocks of listening?

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  1. Eye contact
  2. Body language
  3. Vocal qualities
  4. Verbal tracking
  5. Referring to client by proper name
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What are the components of the interview?

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  1. Rapport

2. Technique

23
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What is rapport?

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  1. Positive, comfortable relationship between
    interviewer and client
  2. How an interviewer is with clients
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What is technique?

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  1. What an interviewer does with clients

2. Directive vs. nondirective styles

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What are the specific interviewer responses?

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  1. Open-ended questions
  2. Close-ended questions
  3. Clarification
  4. Confrontation
  5. Paraphrasing
  6. Reflection of feeling
  7. Summarizing
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What are the open-ended questions?

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  1. Allow individualized and spontaneous responses from clients
  2. Elicit long answers that may or may not provide necessary info
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What are the close-ended questions?

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  1. Allow less elaboration and self-expression by the client

2. Yield quick and precise answers

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What is clarification?

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Question to make sure the interviewer accurately understands the client’s comments

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What is the confrontation?

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For discrepancies or inconsistencies in a client’s comments

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What is the paraphrasing?

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Restatement of client’s comments to show they have been heard

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What is reflection of feeling?

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Echo client’s emotions, even if not explicitly mentioned

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What is summarizing?

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Tie together various topics, connect statements that may have been made at different points, and identify themes

33
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What are the pragmatics of the interview?

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  1. Note-taking
  2. Audio and video recording
  3. The Interview Room
  4. Confidentiality
34
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What is note-taking?

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  1. Little consensus about note-taking

2. Provide a reliable written record, but can be distracting to client and interviewer

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What is audio and video recording?

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  1. Also provide a reliable record, but can be inhibiting to clients
  2. Must obtain permission
36
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What is the interview room?

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Professional yet comfortable

37
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What is confidentiality?

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Explain confidentiality and its limits to clients (e.g., child abuse, intention to harm)

38
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What are the types of interviews?

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  1. Intake interviews
  2. Diagnostic interviews
  3. Mental status exam
  4. Crisis interviews
39
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What are the intake interviews?

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To determine whether to “intake” the client

into the agency or refer elsewhere

40
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What are diagnostic interviews?

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  1. To provide DSM diagnosis
    - Structured interviews often used
    - - Minimize subjectivity, enhance reliability
    - - SCID is an example
    - – Currently being revised for DSM-5
    - - Semi-structured interviews include some structure but also some flexibility or opportunities to improvise
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What is a mental status exam?

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  1. Typically used in medical settings

2. To quickly assess how a client is functioning at that time

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What are crisis interviews?

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  1. Assess problem and provide immediate intervention

2. Clients are often considering suicide or other harmful act

43
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What are the cultural contexts?

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  1. Appreciating the cultural context

2. Acknowledging cultural differences

44
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What is appreciating the cultural context?

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  1. Knowledge of the client’s culture, as well
    as the interviewer’s own culture
  2. For behavior described or exhibited during
    interview
45
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What is acknowledging cultural differences?

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  1. Wise to discuss cultural differences rather
    than ignore
  2. Sensitive inquiry about a client’s cultural
    experiences can be helpful

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