Overview
The psychiatric interview is your window into the mind of your patient. With this practical, how-to handbook, you'll examine each aspect of the psychiatric interview in detail. Your journey begins with the general principles essential to effective interviewing—including techniques for approaching threatening topics, improving patient recall, and dealing with challenging patients. The sections that follow show you how to obtain the psychiatric history, interview for diagnosis, and interview for treatment.
The Practical Guides in Psychiatry series provides quick, concise information for professionals on the front lines of mental health care. Written in an easy-to-read, conversational style, these invaluable resources take you through each step of the psychiatric care process, delivering fast facts and helpful strategies that help you provide effective and compassionate care to your patients.
Make The Psychiatric Interview your bridge to understanding.
- Useful appendices include data forms, patient education handouts, and other frequently referenced information in a format that's easy to photocopy.
- Handy pocket cards that accompany the book provide a portable, quick-reference to often needed facts.
NEW to the Second Edition...
- Updated chapters on the major psychiatric disorders to help you refine your diagnostic skills.
- New chapters on Techniques for the Malingering Patient and Assessing Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
- New Clinical Vignettes let you see the basic components of the psychiatric interview in action.
When you're at the forefront of mental health care, let this practical handbook show you how to make the most of the psychiatric interview. Order your copy today.
Synopsis
Revised and updated, this practical handbook is a succinct how-to guide to the psychiatric interview. In a conversational style with many clinical vignettes, Dr. Carlat outlines effective techniques for approaching threatening topics, improving patient recall, dealing with challenging patients, obtaining the psychiatric history, and interviewing for diagnosis and treatment. This edition features updated chapters on the major psychiatric disorders, new chapters on the malingering patient and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and new clinical vignettes.
Easy-to-photocopy appendices include data forms, patient education handouts, and other frequently referenced information. Pocket cards that accompany the book provide a portable quick-reference to often needed facts.
Doody Review Services
Reviewer:Brett C. Plyler, M.D.(Northwestern Memorial Hospital)
Description:This book explores the psychiatric interview in four distinct categories: general principles, the psychiatric history, and interviewing for diagnosis and/or treatment. This is a 2nd edition and the 1st was originally published in 2001.
Purpose:The book's purpose is to educate mental health professionals in the art of the psychiatric interview. Yes, these are worthy objectives. Yes, the book does meet the author's objective.
Audience:The book is aimed at beginning mental health professionals including interns, residents, social workers, etc., according to the author. I agree with this target audience. The author is a credible authority.
Features:The text opens with the four goals of the diagnostic interview. The author proceeds to break down the interview into its component parts from introduction to conclusion. He considers all aspects of the interview from dealing with the difficult patient to asking about sex to establishing a therapeutic alliance. The interviewing for diagnosis is an especially well-done section. The pocket cards and data forms for the interview are very useful.
Assessment:This is an excellent text for beginning mental health professionals. It starts by emphasizing the therapeutic alliance and stating that the interview is more about treatment than diagnosis (a sentiment I agree with wholeheartedly). The tips and pearls provided throughout are very good. The breakdown on difficult patients and how to interview for diagnosis is well written and easy to understand. I wish that I would have had this book when I began and would highly recommend it to anyone starting in the field.
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From The Critics
Reviewer: Brett C. Plyler, M.D.(Northwestern Memorial Hospital)Description: This book explores the psychiatric interview in four distinct categories: general principles, the psychiatric history, and interviewing for diagnosis and/or treatment. This is a 2nd edition and the 1st was originally published in 2001.
Purpose: "The book's purpose is to educate mental health professionals in the art of the psychiatric interview. Yes, these are worthy objectives. Yes, the book does meet the author's objective."
Audience: "The book is aimed at beginning mental health professionals including interns, residents, social workers, etc., according to the author. I agree with this target audience. The author is a credible authority. "
Features: The text opens with the four goals of the diagnostic interview. The author proceeds to break down the interview into its component parts from introduction to conclusion. He considers all aspects of the interview from dealing with the difficult patient to asking about sex to establishing a therapeutic alliance. The interviewing for diagnosis is an especially well-done section. The pocket cards and data forms for the interview are very useful.
Assessment: This is an excellent text for beginning mental health professionals. It starts by emphasizing the therapeutic alliance and stating that the interview is more about treatment than diagnosis (a sentiment I agree with wholeheartedly). The tips and pearls provided throughout are very good. The breakdown on difficult patients and how to interview for diagnosis is well written and easy to understand. I wish that I would have had this book when I began and would highly recommend it to anyone starting in the field.