The Clinical Interview Using DSM-IV


Book Description

The authors seek to transform their professional clinical experience into clear, concise, practical and learnable clinical skills. The work demonstrates its multidimensional approach using numerous DSM-IV case studies. It also shows how to modify clinical interviewing techniques for patients with different major psychiatric and personality disorders. Updated to include information from the DSM-IV, the guide contains vignettes that illustrate the strategies, techniques and underlying principles of clinical interviewing. Designed for both practitioners and trainees, it is intended to be used as a reference on how to approach the clinical interview.




The Clinical Interview Using DSM-IV: Fundamentals


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This volume presents a fundamentally new vision for how to work with the most powerful assessment strategies developed in the field of clinical psychology and psychiatry.







The Clinical Interview Using DSM-IV-TR


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In this new edition, completely updated for DSM-IV-TR, the authors 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. Changes to this edition: • Addition of discussion of violence and duty to warn• Expansion of attention problems, suicide intent, and comorbidities of personality disorders• Addition of formal assessments of executive functions and of dementia (in appendix) As with the previous edition, The Clinical Interview Using DSM-IV-TR presents a unique vision of how to use the most powerful assessment strategies developed in the field of clinical psychology and psychiatry.













The Clinical Interview Using DSM-IV-TR: The difficult patient


Book Description

The Clinical Interview Using DSM-IV-TR®, Volume 2: The Difficult Patient applies the four-dimensional interviewing approach outlined it its companion volume (The Clinical Interview Using DSM-IV-TR®, Volume 1: Fundamentals) to the difficult patient. It also enhances the interviewing process by employing specialized techniques that correspond with difficulties often encountered by clinicians. Through numerous case examples, this book shows how integrating psychodynamic, cognitive, and neuropsychiatric approaches -- as well as the legal system's methods of cross-examination and voices stress analysis -- can help elicit reliable information from tough patients and aid in solving their diagnostic puzzles. Material has been added on: • Pain in somatization disorder• Mental retardation• Oppositional behavior Completely updated for DSM-IV-TR, this book strives to overcome generalization in interviewing by promoting a differential approach that individualizes and explores each disorder and all its contributing factors in depth, thus preparing the patient for optimal therapeutic intervention.




Interviewer's Guide to the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Dissociative Disorders (SCID-D)


Book Description

Designed to accompany the SCID-D, this guide instructs the clinician in the administration, scoring and interpretation of SCID-D interview. The Guide describes the phenomenology of dissociative symptoms and disorders, as well as the process of differential diagnosis. This revised edition includes a set of decision trees and four case studies.