Initial Interview Needs to Address
Includes things like telephone numbers, emergency contacts, marital status, race or ethnicity, employment status, occupation, and all the names of individuals in client's household.
Demographic Info
The degree to which the client believes the problems are malleable or immutable. Helpful in determing what interventions to use later (like homework).
Assess the degree to which the client believes the problem is changeable.
Use these three things to help interview.
toys, props, and manipulatives
People are influenced by their first impressions - can be positive or negative
Halo Effect
Includes determining whether this is consistent eith the client's current circumstances. Analysis of this can help diagnosing psychotic disorders, mania, depression, and dementia
Thought process, thought content, and perception
Includes identifying information, presenting problem or purpose of counseling, family information, social/developmental history, and past counseling and psychiatric history.
Client background information or psychosocial interview
Have client describe the problem in terms of affective, behavioral, congitive, and relational views.
Explore each significant problem from multiple perspectives.
Not attempting to maintain ______ _______ of the interview
Scale where person chooses between two bipolar terms
Semantic Differential Scale
Counselor should notice any derailments, loose associations, flights of ideas etc.
Speech and language
Includes current medications and current health issues, alcohol and drug use, and psychiatric treatments and illnesses.
Health and Medical History
Identify methods the client has previously used to solve the problem.
Use a combination of ______ and ______ questions.
Open and closed
An individual's reluctance to assign unfavorable ratings 0 more likely to endorse the positive as compared to the negative
Leniency Error
Counselor should consider type, lability, and appropriateness.
Mood and Affect
Includes what motivates the client into coming to counseling, issues causing them difficulty, gathering info on when the issue started, and the surrounding events of the issue.
Presenting concerns/problems
Includes figuring out the degree to which the problem/issue is affecting the client, assessing severity, frequency, and duration, and rating the problem from a scale of 1-10.
Assess each problem's intensity.
Establish ______ and ______
familiarity and rapport
example: Rate on a scale of 1 to 5
Numerical Scale
May also be prudent to include a notation of attitude and physical activity.
Appearance
Includes deeper dives into pertinent issues that the client identifies.
Other relevant information
Includes encouraging client to describe the issues in detail (including info on when problem began, the history of the problem what events were occurring when the problem arose, and what factors or people contributed).
Reduce ______ of the questions
Complexity
People tend to respond in the middle of the ratings
Central tendency error
Client's awareness of own personality and behviors
Insight and Judgement