BookClaudio Cepeda, Lucille Gotanco.
Summary: "The psychiatric interview is the foundation of the psychotherapeutic process and is critically important to establish trust, elicit useful responses, assess patient behavior and psychopathology, and establish treatment goals and plans."--Publisher's website.
Contents:
The diagnostic and therapeutic engagement
General principles of interviewing
Special interviewing techniques
Family assessment
Providing post-evaluation feedback to families
Evaluation of special populations
Psychiatric evaluation of preschoolers and very young children
Documenting the examination
Evaluation of internalizing symptoms
Evaluation of externalizing symptoms
Evaluation of abuse and other symptoms
Neuropsychiatric interview and examination
Comprehensive psychiatric formulation
Symptom formation and comorbidity
Diagnostic obstacles (resistances)
Countertransference.