Psychiatric Interviewing: The Art of Understanding - A Practical Guide for Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Nurses, and Other Mental Health Professionals.

Type
Book
ISBN 10
0721670113 
ISBN 13
9780721670119 
Category
Reference  [ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
1998 
Publisher
Pages
783 
Subject
Interview, Psychological--methods; Physician-Patient Relations. 
Description
The 2nd edition of this clinically based guidebook that focuses on the initial psychiatric interview provides practical suggestions for analyzing and altering the interview to mesh with the specific needs of the patient. Contains detailed discussions of how to open an interview, how to interpret nonverbal communication, how to make more natural transitions, and how to arrive at accurate diagnoses. Offers special techniques for eliciting information from depressed, psychotic, and personality-disordered patients. This edition presents updated DSM-IV criteria, new strategies in suicide assessment, and an annotated interview section accompanied by sample write-ups with tips in the appendix.Spanish version also available, ISBN: 84-8174-596-0 - from Amzon 
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