what happens in the assessment interview?

The environment in which the interview takes place is important.
Describe an appropriate environment?

The degree to which an assessment interview is structured varies depending on ...?

What information needs to be gathered?

describe psychological mindedness?

at first contact with patients, how is rapport established?

what is attending behavior?

summarise appropriate attending behavior?

what are minimal encouragers?

why is an open invitation for the client to talk used in the assessment interview?

during the assessment interview, what questions should be avoided?

Outline some skills which give the therapist more influence on the conversation (selective listening)?

describe paraphrasing?

outline reflecting of feelings?

outline concreteness?

outline summarization?

Clarity of role is an important concept in the therapeutic relationship, but sometimes this can be severely tested. A patient can have expectations of the therapist which the therapist cannot or does not want to meet . What should a therapist do in this situation?

HOw should the interview be ended?

The therapist will commonly meet with reluctance and/ or resistance to disclosing information by a patient. There are a number of possible reasons why this may happen. Some examples include?

If a patient is reluctant to disclose information, what is crucial in gaining compliance?

Obviously becoming impatient or even hostile, engaging in power struggles, allowing the patient to become abusive, ignoring the situation or blaming the patient are unacceptable and will most likely result in the session being terminated early either by the patient or the therapist.
Name some better approaches?

What should therapists avoid in order to have a good therapeutic attitude?

Give a reference for active listening

When people are listened to actively, what happens?

Outline Woody (1980)'s statement about clinical assessment?

Clinical psychologists and other mental health practitioners
have traditionally focused on what “goes wrong” for clients and
how to treat it (Cowen, 1999). More recently, the field has seen a
growing emphasis on...?

The traditional problem focused approach to clinical assessment reduces what?

when assets and risks are both
assessed, clients are more likely to...?

According to Sommers-Flanagan and Sommers-Flanagan (2012) what is the minimum requirement for the setting of an assessment interview?

According to Rogers and Farson (1957) what should be avoided when practicing active listening?

OUtline Morland, Ivey and Phillips (1973)

Outline Weger, Castle and Emmett (2010)

outline the findings of Levitt (2001)

What was found in several 'last sessions before drop out' by Piper et al (1999) (who compared 22 dropouts with
a sample of 22 matched
completers)