With time at a premium, today’s clinicians must rapidly engage their patients while gathering an imposingly large amount of critical information. These clinicians appropriately worry that the “person” beneath the diagnoses will be lost in the shuffle of time constraints, data gathering, and the creation of the electronic health record. Psychiatric Interviewing: The Art of Understanding: A Practical Guide for Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Nurses, and other Mental Health Professionals, 3^rd Edition tackles these problems head-on, providing flexible and practical solutions for gathering critical information while always attending to the concerns and unique needs of the patient.

Over five years in the making, this classic introduction to the art of clinical interviewing returns, updated, expanded and innovatively designed for today’s reader with over 7.5 hours of streaming video integrated directly into the text itself. Readers now also become viewers, acquiring the rare opportunity to see the author both illustrating specific interviewing techniques and subsequently discussing effective ways in which to employ them. The founder and Director of the acclaimed Cape Cod Symposium, Rob Guerette, describes Dr. Shea’s skills as a speaker as follows, “Dr. Shea is an extremely gifted teacher, whose vibrant story-telling skills and compelling videos have led to him garnering some of the highest evaluations in the 30 year history of the Cape Cod Symposium. In short, readers are in for a rare treat when viewing the book’s video component.”

New and Expanded Content:

• Expert Consult eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, references, and videos from the book on a variety of devices
• Bonus chapter on advanced aspects of cross-cultural interviewing, including approaches for recognizing clinician biases and exploring the client’s spirituality and framework for meaning
• Bonus chapter on motivational interviewing
• Bonus chapter on transforming patient anger and moments of potential disengagement
• Bonus chapter for prescribing clinicians — such as psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse clinicians — on how to collaboratively talk with patients about their medications
• Includes over ۷.۵ hours of video illustration and instruction
• Brings to life the pain and phenomenology of people coping with severe mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder
• An entire chapter on engaging patients with difficult personality disorders, such as borderline personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder
• A new and unique chapter covering often overlooked areas, such as positive psychology and methods for uncovering client wellness and strengths
• Extensive chapter on nonverbal communication, including the complex challenges related to interviewing on the web by text and/or tele-psychiatry
• A comprehensive introduction to facilics (an innovative supervision system for helping clinicians learn how to transform interviews into naturalistically flowing conversations), including an interactive web-based self-learning module on facilic supervision schematics for both faculty and students
• Practical tips for creating a good EHR/write-up, in addition to sample clinical forms for EHR/written documentation
• A specialized appendix for faculty, which includes four complete articles from the Psychiatric Clinics of North America that address educational topics including: effectively designing interviewing training courses and macrotraining suicide assessment skills

Review

Contents

۱ The Delicate Dance
۲ Beyond Empathy
۳ The Dynamic Structure of the Interview
۴ Facilics
۵ Validity Techniques for Exploring Sensitive Material and Uncovering the Truth
۶ Understanding the Person Beneath the Diagnosis
۷ Assessment Perspectives and the Human Matrix
۸ Nonverbal Behavior
۹ Mood Disorders
۱۰ Interviewing Techniques for Understanding the Person Beneath the Mood Disorder
۱۱ Psychotic Disorders
۱۲ Interviewing Techniques for Understanding the Person Beneath the Psychosis
۱۳ Personality Disorders
۱۴ Personality Disorders
۱۵ Understanding and Effectively Engaging People With Difficult Personality Disorders
۱۶ The Mental Status
۱۷ Exploring Suicidal Ideation
۱۸ Exploring Violent and Homicidal Ideation
۱۹ Transforming Anger, Confrontation, and Other Points of Disengagement
۲۰ Culturally Adaptive Interviewing
۲۱ Vantage Points
۲۲ Motivational Internewing (MI)
۲۳ Medication Interest Model (MIM)

Video Contents

۱. Introduction to Integrated Video Package
۲. Effectively Using Empathic Statements
۳. Conveying Empathy with Fact-Finding Questions
۴. Macrostructure of the Interview: The Graceful Unfolding of the Introduction, Opening, and Body of the Interview
۵. Creating Graceful Transitions Using Natural Gates
۶. Validity Techniques: Effective Use
۷. Validity Techniques Illustrated: Complete Interview with Ben without Didactics and without Labels for Interviewing Techniques
۸. Validity Techniques Illustrated: Complete Interview with Ben without Didactics but with Labels for Interviewing Techniques
۹. Interviewing Techniques for Uncovering Malingering
۱۰. Sensitively Uncovering the Symptoms of Major Depressive Disorder
۱۱. Sensitively Exploring the Diagnostic Criteria for Other Psychiatric Disorders such as Panic Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Adult Attention-Deficit Disorder
۱۲. Sensitively Uncovering Criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder
۱۳. Principles and Components of the Mental Status
۱۴. The Formal Cognitive Mental Status Examination: The Art of Sensitively Uncovering Cognitive Deficits
۱۵. The Delicate Art of Uncovering Suicidal Ideation and Intent – Part 1: Core Principles and Theory
۱۶. The Delicate Art of Uncovering Suicidal Ideation and Intent – Part 2: From Theory to Practice (Annotated Video Clips)
۱۷. The Delicate Art of Uncovering Suicidal Ideation and Intent – Part 3: Flexibly Utilizing the CASE Approach with Patients of High Lethality (Annotated Video Clips)
۱۸. CASE Approach Illustrated: Complete Interview with Amy #1 without Didactics and without Labels for Interviewing Techniques
۱۹. CASE Approach Illustrated: Complete Interview with Amy #1 without Didactics but with Labels for Interviewing Techniques
۲۰. CASE Approach Illustrated: Complete Interview with Amy #2 and with Amy #3 without Didactics and without Labels for Interviewing Techniques