First Interview - 93 edition

Summary: Rewritten to incorporate the new DSM criteria, The First Interview updates a text that is rapidly becoming a standard in the field. This timely, accessible volume covers a broad range of personalities and problems typically encountered in the first interview, offering fresh insight on how to elicit key diagnostic details from even the most challenging patient. Completely up to date, all references to DSM-III-R have been revised, and outlines of the most common diagno ...show moreses have been rewritten in accordance with the new criteria. The First Interview specifies what you need to ask, and how best to frame your questions. Presented in a conversational, forthright style, these techniques are further brought to life by illustrative clinical vignettes. The author takes you through each stage of an interview, demonstrating how to derive maximum information while establishing and maintaining trust and rapport. Effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills are emphasized, with techniques provided to help draw out feelings and determine symptoms, mental status, family background, personal strengths, and vulnerabilities such as a history of violence or childhood abuse. The volume concludes with a detailed discussion of how clinicians can most effectively present findings and recommendations to patients and their families in a manner that offers information with a sense of trust and hope. Clinically useful appendices include a sample interview and written report, DSM-IV diagnoses in abbreviated form for easy reference, standards for scoring the initial interview, and a list of recommended readings. For the seasoned clinician, this new edition of The First Interview provides a refresher course on the initial interview, and alternative approaches for interviewing difficult patients. It is also an ideal introductory text for students in psychology, psychiatry, social work, pastoral counseling, medicine, and nursing. ...show less

Edition/Copyright: 93
Cover: Hardcover
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 04/16/1993

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1. Openings and Introductions
2. Chief Complaint and Free Speech
3. Developing Rapport
4. Managing the Early Patient Interview
5. History of the Present Illness
6. Getting the Facts about the Present Illness
7. Interviewing about Feelings
8. Personal and Social History
9. Sensitive Subjects
10. Control of the Later Interview
11. Mental Status Exam I: Behavioral Aspects
12. Mental Status Exam II: Cognitive Aspects
13. Signs and Symptoms in Areas of Clinical Interest
14. Closure
15. Interviewing Informants
16. Meeting Resistance
17. Special and Difficult Patients
18. Evaluation
19. Making Recommendations
20. Communicating Your Findings
Appendix A. Summary of the Initial Interview
Appendix B. Description and Diagnostic Criteria for Selected Disorders
Appendix C. Sample Interview
Appendix D. Sample Written Report
Appendix E. Assessing Your Interview
Appendix F. Bibliography and Recommended Readings

Other Editions of First Interview:

First Interview - 3 edition

ISBN13: 978-1593856366