Here, the authors aim to transform their professional experience into clear, concise, practical and learnable skills. They teach how to master each of the four basic interview components separately, and how to make them interact optimally during the five phases of the patient interview. Also included is an example of a write-up of a psychiatric evaluation that will satisfy most third-party payers, taking the reader through the write-up step-by-step and showing how it can be adapted to virtually any procedural or research need.
Table of Contents:
Prologue: framework. Strategies for rapport. Strategies to get information: techniques. Three methods to assess mental status. Testing. Five steps to make a diagnosis. Five phases and the four components: how to put it all together. A difficult patient. Disorder-specific interviewing: clinical disorders. Disorder-specific interviewing: personality disorders. Index.
Review :
"Authors Ekkehard Othmer and Sieglinde C. Othmer have tapped into an important need psychiatric clinicians, instructors, and students.... The content of these titles is well laid out in that one very accurately gets a good sense of the material from the table of contents, tables, glossary and index. These books are also aesthetically pleasing with their simple but consistent formats. The information in these texts is especially instructive with captivating case vignettes and clear writing. Although these texts are geared toward post-graduate psychiatry students and clinicians, others in the mental health profession will certainly find valuable information here. "The Clinical Interview Using DSM-IV-TR(R)" [is] highly recommended for health science libraries that support psychiatric practice."-- "Cynthia Burke, E-STREAMS", "2003"
"Here the unimaginative shackles of orthodox psychiatric history taking and mental state examination are thrown off with the proposal that the diagnostic process starts from the initial contact with the patient. This of course, is obvious to the experienced practitioner but is rarely conveyed in textbooks on psychiatric interviewing, which tend to convey a systematic, rather pedestrian approach, where mental state examination and diagnosis linearly follow data collection. In contrast, the authors' approach is a thinking approach, where mental state examination weaves through-out the interview informing, shaping, and refining the diagnostic process.... This is a textbook that should be read by all mental health professionals, whatever their core discipline. The reader would benefit from reading both volumes in their entirety (over 1,000 pages) but could profit simply from dipping in and rereading relevant chapters.... The reader is introduced to a gourmet menu of interviewing techniques, described in detail and illustrated by deconstructed interviews."-- "Lisetta M. Lovett, Contemporary Psychology APA Review of Books", "2004"
"This is a wonderful book. The authors have distilled an enormous amount of wisdom and provide a clear, comprehensive, and well-integrated approach to the psychiatric interview. This is the kind of book I wish I had written myself."-- "Allen Frances, M.D., Chair, APA Task Force on DSM-IV"
"This is the best teaching instrument I've encountered on how to conduct the psychiatric interview. It is well organized, clearly presented, and even demonstrates the novice vs. instructor's approach to interviewing techniques to illustrate the most effective way to illicit information and engage the client in the process."-- "Diana H. Marta, B.S.N. R.N. Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Doody's Publishing", "March 2002"
