Chap 8: clinical interview
Mcq’s
Validity to the extent that it measures what it claims to mesasure.
Content validity has content appropriate for what what is being measured
Convergent validity coorelate with others techniques that measure the same things.
Discriminant validity does not coorelate with techniques that measures some thing else.
Reliability to the extent that it yields consistent repeatable results.
Test-retest reliability yields similar results across multiple administrations at different times
Interrater reliability yields similar results across different administrators
Internal validity consists of items that are consistent with one another.
Clinical utility improves delivery of services or outcome.
The vast majority of clinical psychologists use interviews for assesment.
Psychological testing has been called the one of the brightest jewels in the crown of clinical psychology.
General skills of clinical psychologist
Self -Quited is the interviewr’s internal thinking pattern.
Being self aware the type of self awareness that should be maximized is the inteviwers ability to know how
he or she tend to affect others interpersonality and how others tend to relate to him or her.
Developing positive working relationship benefit for both parties. Attentive listening, appropriate empathy,
genuine respect, and cultural senstivity.
Specific behaviours
Eye contact, Body language, Vocal qualities, Verbal tracking,Refering to the client by the proper name
Components of the interview
Rapport refers to a positive comfortable relationship between interviewer and client.
Techniques direct versus nondirect styles,
Directive style get exactly the information they need by asking clients specifically for it.
Nondirective style allow the client to determine the course of the interview.
Both approaches directive and nondirective play an important role in interviewing.
Open-ended already prepare by interviewer and close-ended unstructured questions prepare by interviewer.
Clarification question is to make sure the interviewer has an accurate understanding of the clients
comments.
Confrontation use when the interviewer notive discrepancies in a clients comments
Confrontation focus on apparently contradictory information provided by client.
Parapharasing ( restate the content of client) is used to simply ensure clients that they are accurately heard.
Reflection of feelings (enchoes the clients emotions) intended to make clients feel that their emotions are
recognized.
Summarizing usually involves tying together various topics that may have been dicussed in interview.
Paragmatics of the interview
Note taking some write profusely during interviews filling the pages with observation of their clients and
selected snippers of the conservation.
Written notes are more reliable then interviewwers memory.
Audio videos recoeding clinical psychologist may prefer to audio or video recoding.
Interviewer and client in chairs t the angle between 90 to 180.
Confidentiality not disclose the information of client with others.
Types of interview
Intake interview the intake interview determines whether the client needs treatment if so what form of
interview is needed like inpatient, outpatient, specialized provider.
Diagnostic interview name indicates the purpose is to diagnose.
Structured predetermined planned sequence of questions, and unstructured interviews no predetermined or
planned questions.
Structured interview possess a number of advantages over unstructured interviews.
Structured interview more reliable then unstructured interviews.
SCID structured clinical interview for DSM-4 diorders was created by some of the leading authors of recent
editions of DSM.
There are two versions of SCID one for Axis I and two for Axis II disorders.
Semi structured interview contain both structured and unstructured interview questions.
Mental State Examination its primary purpose is to quickly asses how the client is functioning at the
time of evaluation.
Crisis interview is a special type of interview.
They design not only to assess a problem demanding urgent attention but aslo to provide immediate and
effective intervention for that problem.
Crisis interview can conducted inperson but also take place often on the telephone via sucide hostile, crisis
line.
