Asking Questions I: How to Approach Threatening Topics Essential Concepts Use normalizing questions to decrease a patient’s sense of embarrassment about a feeling or behavior. Use symptom expectation and reduction…
The Therapeutic Alliance: What It Is, Why It’s Important, and How to Establish It Essential Concepts Be warm, courteous, and emotionally sensitive. Actively defuse the strangeness of the clinical situation….
Logistic Preparations: What to Do Before the Interview Essential Concepts Prepare the right space and time. Use paper tools effectively. Develop your policies. The work of psychological healing begins in…
The Initial Interview: A Preview Essential Concepts The Four Tasks Build a therapeutic alliance. Obtain the psychiatric database. Interview for diagnosis. Negotiate a treatment plan with your patient. The Three…
