This text is a serious examination of
clinical interviewing as a professional activity; it includes the “grammar,
writing, reading, and arithmetic” of professional interviewing. But in the
spirit of Emerson, we have also smuggled in some contraband, and we encourage
you to do the same. For our part, we include occasional humor, the practical
application of fantasy through skill-building activities, and stories of our
own and our colleagues’ pitfalls and successes. For your part, we hope you
learn clinical interviewing with all the seriousness that an enterprise
dedicated to evaluating and helping people who come to you in emotional pain
and distress deserves. We also hope you will smuggle a little contraband into the
learning process. In particular, we hope the contraband you smuggle in is
yourself.
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This text is divided into four parts.
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Part One, “Becoming a Mental Health Professional,” includes two chapters. Chapter 1, “Introduction: Philosophy and Organization,” begins by orienting readers to our general philosophy toward clinical interviewing. In this chapter, we cover basic, state-of-the-art practices in clinical interviewing and encourage readers to begin their own theoretical and philosophical development. In Chapter 2, “Foundations and Preparations,” we outline the definition of clinical interviewing, discuss physical setting variables common to clinical interviewing, and review crucial professional and ethical issues.Part Two, “Listening and Relationship Development,” includes three chapters covering a wide range of listening, directive, and relationship-enhancing responses that can occur in a clinical setting. For many people—including mental health professionals—listening is neither easy nor natural; therefore, we review key listening components in Chapter 3, “Basic Attending, Listening, and Action Skills.” Chapter 4, “Directives: Questions and Action Skills,” includes a description of numerous directive statements and techniques—including questioning—available to clinical interviewers. In Chapter 5, “Relationship Variables and Clinical Interviewing,” the nature and purpose of the interview is explored from a variety of different theoretical perspectives.Part Three, “Structuring and Assessment,” includes five chapters designed to guide interviewers in more directive interviewing procedures; these procedures are specifically designed to gather assessment information via the clinical interview. Chapter 6, “An Overview of the Interview Process,” provides a guide for understanding and managing the generic stages of all clinical interviews, followed by a brief section on the science of clinical interviewing. Chapter 7, “Intake Interviewing and Report Writing, ”specifically addresses intake interviewing, report writing, and other demands inherent in that first therapist-client encounter. Chapter 8, “The Mental Status Examination,” provides a succinct overview of the mental status examination (MSE).Part Four, “Interviewing Special Populations,” consists of three chapters. Chapter 11, “Interviewing Young Clients,” includes a description of basic procedures for interviewing child and adolescent clients. In Chapter 12, “Interviewing Couples and Families,” issues facing interviewers who work with couples and families are reviewed. And finally, in Chapter 13, “Multicultural and Diversity Issues” (coauthored by Dr. Darrell Stolle), we focus on issues and strategies for interviewing clients from diverse cultural backgrounds. The chapters are intended to provide a foundation for dealing with these special populations; additional study, supervised experience, and training are necessary to become competent in working with these populations.Throughout the book, we share examples from our clinical work and personal experiences. Please note that, when necessary, we have changed information to protect the identities and privacy of people with whom we have worked. In addition, we intermittently use both masculine and feminine pronouns to maintain gender balance when describing individual clients and interviewers.
Chapters
included in this BOOK are:
Part One: Becoming a mental
health professional
1. Introduction: philosophy
and organization
2. Foundations and
preparation
Part Two: Listening and
relationship development
3.
Basic attending listening and action skills
4.
Directives: Questions and action skills
5.
Relationship variables and clinical interviewing
Part
Three: Structuring and assessment
6.
An overview of interview process
7.
Intake interviewing and Report writing
8.
The mental status examination
9.
Suicide assessment
10.
Diagnosis and treatment planning
Part
Four: Interviewing special population
11.
Interviewing young client
12.
Interviewing couples and families
13.
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