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The Clinical Interview Scott Simpson

The Clinical Interview By Scott Simpson

The Clinical Interview by Scott Simpson

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The Clinical Interview offers a new perspective on the patient encounter. Interpreting decades of evidence-based psychotherapy and neuroscience, it provides 60 succinct techniques to help clinicians develop rapport, solicit better histories, and plan treatment with even the most challenging patients.

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The Clinical Interview: Skills for More Effective Patient Encounters by Scott Simpson

The Clinical Interview offers a new perspective on the patient encounter. Interpreting decades of evidence-based psychotherapy and neuroscience, it provides 60 succinct techniques to help clinicians develop rapport, solicit better histories, and plan treatment with even the most challenging patients.

This book describes brief skills and techniques for clinical providers to improve their patient interactions. Although evidence-based psychotherapies are typically designed for longer specialized treatments, elements of these psychotherapies can help clinicians obtain better patient histories, develop more effective treatment plans, and more capably handle anxiety-provoking interactions. Each chapter is brief and easily digestible, contains sample clinical dialogue, and provides references for further reading. These skills help clinicians practice more effectively, more efficiently, and with greater resilience. Whatever your clinical specialty or role, whether you are a trainee or an experienced clinician, The Clinical Interview offers practical wisdom and an entirely new way to think about the clinical encounter.

The Clinical Interview will be of great use to any student in a health-related field of study or a healthcare professional interested in refining their interviewing skills. It will help anyone from emergency medical technicians, nurses, and physician assistants, to nurse practitioners and physicians to build more meaningful patient relationships.

The Clinical Interview Reviews

This book goes beyond nuts and bolts to capture the art and soul of clinical interviewing. It offers a treasure chest of practical tips for clinicians to increase effectiveness, build collaboration and empathy, avoid power struggles, and in general create a therapeutic alliance with patients in health settings. The sample dialogues provide excellent illustrations of techniques. Bravo!

Stacey Freedenthal, PhD, LCSW, author of Helping the Suicidal Person: Tips and Techniques for Professionals

Drs. Simpson and McDowell and their contributors have done a superb job presenting the keys to good clinical interviewing. The book is illuminated with the pleasure of engaging with patients as people and achieving better outcomes in the process. The unique format of 60 brief chapters, each one on a different technique, is highly accessible: there are an abundance of practical and well-organized pearls and tips, each with sample dialogue and a brief review of supporting theory and literature. Useful for quick reference or sustained study, the eclectic approach will benefit any healthcare practitioner, beginner to expert, medical or psychiatric, practicing ambulatory or acute care. The book's themes are familiar-therapeutic alliance, collaboration with the patient, intertwining treatment with evaluation, promoting change-but I learned some new things reading it. It is heartening to see this aspect of medicine remain so creative and alive.

Jon S. Berlin, MD, clinical professor in psychiatry, Medical College of Wisconsin

The Clinical Interview is a highly practical and user-friendly guide to the clinical application of evidence-based psychotherapeutic techniques to enrich the patient-clinician encounter. When patients feel heard, history taking is smooth, troubling thoughts and feelings are easier to elicit, and treatment planning becomes a team approach. Drs. Simpson and McDowell elegantly display a variety of psychotherapeutic approaches thorough the use of patient vignettes. This book will be a valuable tool to clinicians at all levels of experience.

Jagoda Pasic, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Washington

Even the best clinician will walk out of the occasional clinical encounter thinking, 'Well, that could have gone better,' but still being unsure just what we could have done differently with our interviewing technique or brief interventions. The Clinical Interview gives readers a quick refresher of basic and advanced approaches to common and complex scenarios. It reads easily with brief and digestible tutorials which can be read quickly between clinical encounters or absorbed at length. A worthy addition to the library of any mental health clinician, new or experienced.

Jack Rozel, MD, MSL, President, American Association for Emergency Psychiatry, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh

In this eminently practical and insightful book, written in plain English, Drs. Simpson, McDowell, and their colleagues offer helpful strategies and techniques that address key aspects of the clinical interview. These wise guiding principles and techniques will assist clinicians at all levels-from novices through experts-learn, reflect on, and call upon a huge variety of important 'tricks of the trade,' helpful for building and maintaining better alliances, treatment plans, and therapeutic interactions.

Joel Yager, MD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine

This book provides guidance to a wide range of providers who deal with patients that run the spectrum from mundane to difficult. This textbook is a recommended read for all.

Leslie S. Zun, MD, MBA, Medical Director, Lake County Health Department, Chairman and Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine and Psychiatry, RFUMS/Chicago Medical School

The Clinical Interview is a terrific compilation of top experts providing a kaleidoscopic study of varied aspects of psychiatry's backbone, the clinical interview. The well-structured format of individual concepts should make this an inviting read, and an invaluable resource, for students and seasoned professionals alike.

Scott Zeller, MD, University of California, Riverside, Editor of Emergency Psychiatry: Principles and Practice and The Diagnosis and Management of Agitation

About Scott Simpson

Scott A. Simpson, MD, MPH, is Medical Director of Psychiatric Emergency Services at Denver Health Medical Center and an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Dr. Simpson has advanced the treatment of behavioral emergencies through clinical practice, scholarship, and program development. A practicing emergency psychiatrist, he appreciates the unique challenge and privilege of working with patients and families in crisis. He lectures frequently across the country and has numerous peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Simpson is board certified in psychiatry, consultation-liaison psychiatry, and addiction medicine.

Anna K. McDowell, MD, is a psychiatrist and Co-Director of the Depression Consultation Team at the Rocky Mountain Regional Veterans Affairs Medical Center. As clinical faculty at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Dr. McDowell teaches students, residents, and clinical staff. She is passionate about treating patients with complex mood, anxiety, and personality disorders and integrates multiple psychotherapeutic modalities in her patients' treatment. Dr. McDowell has formal training in dialectical behavior and psychodynamic psychotherapies and is board certified in psychiatry and addiction medicine.

Table of Contents

SECTION I. BUILDING RAPPORT

1. Elicit one goal

Be more efficient by learning the patient's agenda

2. Validate three different ways

Be authentic in your validation by expanding the ways in which you can agree with the patient

3. Mirror the patient's language to build rapport

Use the patient's phrasing to avoid misinterpretation

Jodi Zik, MD

4. Use the power of and

Introduce and rather than or/but statements to your interview to establish rapport, validate the patient's experience, and facilitate change

Ashley Curry, MD

5. Redirect demanding patients

Reinforce that the patient, like everyone, is entitled to good medical care

6. Be silent

Use active silence to support the patient's emotional expression

Jesse Markman, MD, MBA

7. Be playful

Introduce playful irreverence to challenge rigidity, signal affection, and build social connection

Amy Dowell, MD, and Alexia Giblin, PhD, CEDS

8. Handle the hollering with a calming question

Through tone of voice, active listening, and setting limits, invite a conversation to de-escalate a shouting patient

Thomas Dunn, PhD

9. Recognize your own emotions

Identify and process your countertransference during the interview to improve the patient's well-being (and your own)

Jonathan Buchholz, MD, Lionel Perez, MD, Lindsay Lebin, MD, and Heidi Combs, MD, MS

10. Reflect the patient's statements

Use a well-timed reflection to disrupt a negative thought spiral

Jesse Markman, MD, MBA

11. Introduce progressive muscle relaxation

Give the patient an active task to change their emotional experience

Jesse Markman, MD, MBA

12. Use emotional validation to manage negative countertransference

Disarm your negative emotions and humanize your patients

Melanie Rylander, MD

13. Consider fear when the patient is angry

Assess what the patient might be afraid of when they become upset

14. Validate the patient's perspective of where they are now and where they need to go

Understand and support the patient's reality and goals to enhance motivation for treatment

15. Share how you feel

Put your own feelings into words to reset a difficult conversation

16. Agree to disagree

De-escalate an argument by repeating this short phrase

17. Be honest about your limitations

Relieve yourself of unobtainable expectations and reset the conflictual encounter

SECTION II. TAKING A HISTORY

18. Be curious

When curious about what a patient has said, ask more questions to obtain useful information and show the patient that you are interested

Rachel Glick, MD

19. Prioritize information you need right now

Shift your line of questioning without shifting the topic

David Kroll, MD

20. Use open-ended questions for sensitive topics

Invite greater honesty and avoid a sense of judgment through open-ended questions

21. Attend to affect

Emphasize the patient's emotional words for a richer history

22. Validate and move

Use validation as a transitional tool in the unwieldy interview

23. Write a timeline

Organize chaotic histories and validate the patient's experience

24. Ask How come? instead of Why?

Vary your phrasing slightly to improve the tone of the interview

25. Observe caregivers' nonverbal cues

Gather information from caregivers to increase accuracy and efficiency in diagnosis of cognitive disorders

Joleen Sussman, PhD, ABPP

26. Roll with impaired reality testing

Provide a validating and grounded interview for patients with psychotic symptoms

Erin O'Flaherty, MD

27. Ask for help understanding

Frame an open-ended question as a plea for the patient's assistance

28. Collect the social history first

Re-order the traditional interview to better engage reluctant patients

Sarah Schrauben, MD

29. Ask about family history

Use the family history as a lead-in to sensitive questions

30. Wonder aloud with the patient

Use and re-use a brief, non-committal phrase to explore the patient's history and treatment options

SECTION III. MAKING AN ASSESSMENT

31. Track symptoms and behaviors

Keep a log to aid diagnosis and begin treatment

32. Find the key worry

Consider the anxious patient's most important worry in making the diagnosis

33. Consider past healthcare encounters

Ask how patients' past healthcare experiences may inform their current experience

34. Identify what is solvable

Focus on concrete objectives that you and the patient can realistically solve together

35. Talk about traits, not diagnosis

Think of maladaptive thoughts and behaviors on a spectrum of normal

Jodi Zik, MD, and Melanie Rylander, MD

36. Label the patient's affect

Help manage the patient's emotional experiences by putting it into words

Edward MacPhee, MD

37. Talk about the mind-body connection

Connect psychiatric and medical symptoms to encourage openness to mental health interventions

Thida Thant, MD

38. Emphasize function over feeling in chronic illness

Shift the visit's focus to capability to reinforce the patient's self-efficacy and agree on achievable outcomes

39. Consider the social history in your assessment

Apply the social history as a tool for understanding the patient's diagnosis and treatment

Jodi Zik, MD

40. Remind the patient what is not working

Ask how the patient feels about their current behaviors in order to motivate change

41. Ask about medication side effects

Assess experiences of side effects when medications are seemingly ineffective

Vivian Cheng, PharmD, and Jeffrey Clark, PharmD, BCPP

42. Ask the why about online information

Focus on the patient's motivations for sharing information brought to the encounter

43. Recall the patient's strengths

Consider how the patient's abilities can be used in the service of their health

44. Accept or change

Simplify the possible outcomes to help the patient stop venting and decide on action

SECTION IV: PLANNING TREATMENT

45. Set the stage

Spend one visit preparing to make significant treatment changes

46. Fish for change talk

Guide the patient into talking about behavior change more quickly

Alex Kipp, MD, MALS

47. Imagine the future

Envision the patient's healthy life in order to prioritize treatment goals

48. Prescribe change

Use a prescription pad to emphasize non-pharmacologic interventions

49. Ask the patient's beliefs regarding medications

Understand what patients think medications will do for them to clarify treatment and improve adherence

50. Anticipate challenges

Be specific in planning ahead and removing obstacles to treatment success

51. Experiment with change

Introduce change as something the patient can simply try out-no commitment necessary!

52. Operationalize improvement

Be specific with the patient about what better means

53. Frame limit-setting from the patient's perspective

Consider how setting effective limits will improve the patient's care

David Kroll, MD

54. Share difficult decisions

Give the patient options when collaborating on a treatment plan with which the patient is reluctant to engage

55. Define efficacy for medication changes

Understand the patient's goals and how they will know if a medication change is working

56. Help patients resist urges

Review how patients can refrain from acting on unhelpful impulses

57. Accept ambivalence: It's okay not to change

Allow patients to acknowledge and accept when they are not ready to change

Jodi Zik, MD, and Melanie Rylander, MD

58. Plan for a crisis

Write a three-step crisis plan to anticipate patients' triggers and coping skills

59. Normalize challenges

Validate that treatment is difficult for many patients

60. Reinforce the positive

Encourage healthy decision-making and adherence with plentiful encouragement

Additional information

NLS9781138346505
9781138346505
1138346500
The Clinical Interview: Skills for More Effective Patient Encounters by Scott Simpson
Scott Simpson
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Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2019-07-16
198
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