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This indispensable clinical guidebook describes and illustrates how to conduct a successful diagnostic mental health interview. James Morrison details effective methods for posing clinical questions; what the clinician should ask to obtain complete, accurate information; and how to select the best strategy to meet any clinical situation. Throughout, the author interweaves research on what works in mental health interviewing along with fresh insights on how to build rapport and enhance patient motivation.

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• Introduction: What Is Interviewing?
• 1 Openings and Introductions
• 2 Chief Complaint and Free Speech
• 3 Developing Rapport
• 4 Managing the Early Patient Interview
• 5 History of the Present Illness
• 6 Getting the Facts about the Present Illness
• 7 Interviewing about Feelings
• 8 Personal and Social History
• 9 Sensitive Subjects
• 10 Control of the Later Interview
• 11 Mental Status Exam I: Behavioral Aspects
• 12 Mental Status Exam II: Cognitive Aspects
• 13 Signs and Symptoms in Areas of Clinical Interest
• 14 Closure
• 15 Interviewing Informants
• 16 Meeting Resistance
• 17 Special or Challenging Patient Behaviors and Issues
• 18 Diagnosis and Recommendations
• 19 Sharing Your Findings with the Patient
• 20 Communicating Your Findings to Others
• 21 Troubleshooting Your Interview
• Appendix A Summary of the Initial Interview
• Appendix B Description and Diagnostic Criteria for Selected Disorders
• Appendix C Sample Interview with Report
• Appendix D A Semistructured Interview
• Appendix E Assessing Your Interview
• Appendix F Bibliography and Recommended Reading

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This is the third edition of this popular clinical guidebook, which describes and illustrates how to conduct an effective interview with an adult patient. Writing in an easy-to-read style, Morrison (Oregon Health and Science Univ.) aims to transform the novice into a competent interviewer and enhance the experienced clinician's approach to establishing rapport and collecting data with a new patient. The book offers insights and practical strategies for helping the talkative person focus, probing the shy patient, and eliciting the important details about sensitive and touchy subjects, including sex, substance abuse, violence, and suicidal thoughts. Illustrative material is intended to help clinicians gather personal and medical history, glean the patient's mental status, and deal with confused, uncooperative, or hostile patients. Morrison then guides the reader through diagnostic criteria and a review of the major mental health diagnoses. He also discusses challenging patients, pitfalls in interview and recovery strategies, assessing strengths and opportunities for improvement in the interview, and sharing findings therapeutically with the patient. This useful volume will serve all therapists and counselors, be they in training or practicing. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, professionals. S. M. Valente University of California, Los Angeles

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James Morrison, MD, graduated from Reed College and earned his MD at Washington University in St. Louis, where he trained in psychiatry. He is currently Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland. Dr. Morrison's other books for professionals include Diagnosis Made Easier, DSM-IV Made Easy, When Psychological Problems Mask Medical Disorders, and Interviewing Children and Adolescents . In 2002 he wrote a comprehensive guide for patients and their relatives, Straight Talk about Your Mental Health.