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Table of Contents
Section I: General Principles of Effective Interviewing
1: The Initial Interview: A Preview 2: Logistic Preparations: What to Do Before the Interview 3: The Therapeutic Alliance: What It Is, Why It's Important, and How to Establish It 4: Asking Questions I: How to Approach Threatening Topics 5: Asking Questions II: Tricks for Improving Patient Recall 6: Asking Questions III: How to Change Topics with Style
7: Techniques for the Reluctant Patient
8: Techniques for the Overly Talkative Patient
9: Techniques for the Malingering Patient
10: Techniques for the Adolescent Patient
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11: Interviewing Family Members and Other Informants
12: Techniques for Other Challenging Situations
13: Practical Psychodynamics in the Diagnostic Interview
Section II: The Psychiatric History
14: Obtaining the History of Present Illness
15: Obtaining the Psychiatric History
16: Screening for General Medical Conditions
17: Family Psychiatric History
18: Obtaining the Social and Developmental History
Section III: Interviewing for Diagnosis: The Psychiatric Review of Symptoms
19: How to Memorize the DSM-5 Criteria
20: Interviewing for Diagnosis: The Art of Hypothesis Testing
21: Mental Status Examination
22: Assessing Suicidal and Homicidal Ideation
23: Assessing Mood Disorders I: Depressive Disorders 24: Assessing Mood Disorders II: Bipolar Disorder
25: Assessing Anxiety, Obsessive, and Trauma Disorders
26: Assessing Alcohol Use Disorder
27: Assessing Psychotic Disorders
28: Assessing Neurocognitive Disorders (Dementia and Delirium)
29: Assessing Eating Disorders and Somatic Symptom Disorder
30: Assessing Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
31: Assessing Personality Disorders
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Section IV: Interviewing for Treatment
32: How to Educate Your Patient
33: Negotiating a Treatment Plan
34: Writing Up the Results of the Interview
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The Psychiatric Interview 4th Edition Carlat Test Bank
(Chapter 1-Chapter 3) The Initial Interview: A Preview Chapter 2: Logistic Preparations: What to Do Before the Interview
Chapter 3: The Therapeutic Alliance: What It Is, Why It's Important, and How to Establish It
MULTIPLE CHOICE
- Which outcome, focused on recovery, would be expected in the plan of care for a patient
living in the community and diagnosed with serious and persistent mental illness? Within 3
months, the patient will:
- deny suicidal ideation.
- report a sense of well-being.
- take medications as prescribed.
- attend clinic appointments on time.
ANS: B
Recovery emphasizes managing symptoms, reducing psychosocial disability, and improving role performance. The goal of recovery is to empower the individual with mental illness to achieve a sense of meaning and satisfaction in life and to function at the highest possible level of wellness.The incorrect options focus on the classic medical model rather than recovery.
- A patient is hospitalized for depression and suicidal ideation after their spouse asks for a
- Lets discuss some means of coping other than suicide when you have these feelings.
- I understand why youre so depressed. When I got divorced, I was devastated too.
- You should forget about your marriage and move on with your life.
- How did you get so depressed that hospitalization was necessary?
divorce. Select the nurses most caring comment.
ANS: A
The nurses communication should evidence caring and a commitment to work with the patient.This commitment lets the patient know the nurse will help. Probing and advice are not helpful or therapeutic interventions.
- In the shift-change report, an off-going nurse criticizes a patient who wears heavy makeup.
- This is a psychiatric hospital. Craziness is what we are all about.
- Lets all show acceptance of this patient by wearing lots of makeup too.
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Which comment by the nurse who receives the report best demonstrates advocacy?