PSYC 3330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Unstructured Interview, Mental Status Examination, Dsm-5
19 Apr 2016
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Clinical interview is the beginning of assessment. Any assessment technique should be valid, reliable and have clinical utility. Validity: measures what it claims to measure. Clinical utility: most valid and reliable test wouldn"t be helpful if it didn"t benefit the clinical and ultimately the client in a meaningful way. Feedback: clinical psychologists should provide their clients with results of tests or interviewed that have been conducted. Can come in the form of a face-to-face meeting, written report, or other forms. Most psychologists believe that clients find their feedback to be helpful and positive. Many kinds of tests - intelligence, achievement, neuropsychological, personality and specialized measures. Of all available procedures, clinical psychologists rely most frequently on the clinical interview. Few assessments are conducted without an interview of some kind. General skills required involve the interviewer"s own frame of mind rather than any set of techniques. Quieting oneself - what should be quieted is the interviewer"s internal, self-directed thinking pattern.
