TY - BOOK AU - Poole,Rob AU - Higgo,Robert TI - Psychiatric interviewing and assessment T2 - Cambridge Medicine SN - 9781316614037 PY - 2017/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Interviews KW - Psychiatry KW - Personality assessment KW - Patient-medical staff relations KW - Mental disorders N1 - Previous edition: 2006; Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index; Section 1: What am I trying to find out here? 1.Diagnosis -- 2. History -- 3. Mental state and psychopathology -- 4. Cognitive state assessment and organic disease -- Section 2: The main principles of one-to-one interviewing -- 5. Office based psychiatric assessment -- 6. Understanding and managing relationships with patients -- Section 3: Difficult interviews -- 7. Difficulties relating to psychosis -- 8. Unpopular patients -- Section 4: Self-awareness -- 9. Values and beliefs -- 10. Culture -- 11. Who should I be? -- Section 5: Complicated interviews -- 12. Interviewing with other team members -- 13. Interviewing families and other informants -- 14. In the community -- 15. Fragmented interviewing and assessment -- 16. 'Impossible' assessments -- Section 6: Developmental assessments -- 17. Neurodevelopmental assessment -- 18. Personality -- Section 7: Drawing it all together -- 19. Risk and safety -- 20. Record keeping and reports -- Afterword N2 - Interviewing and assessment are integral to the practice of psychiatry, and this book helps psychiatrists and other mental health professionals develop the skills needed to gain the right information to make diagnostic formulations and build therapeutic relationships with their patients. The text examines common dilemmas and problems in an engaging and accessible way, and the use of case studies relates the principles discussed to identifiable psychiatric settings. This new edition has been revised and expanded to reflect changes in clinical practice in recent years. New chapters have been added covering the assessment of neurodevelopmental disorders, fragmented interviews and 'impossible' clinical situations such as the assessment of intoxicated patients and rhetorical interviews. Essential reading for all mental health professionals, the practical grounding in real-world clinical experience will benefit trainee psychiatrists, experienced clinicians, nurses, social workers and physician associates ER -