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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.

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.

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.

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 through 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 levelsfrom novices through expertslearn, 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 psychiatrys 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

Skills for More Effective Patient Encounters

Scott A. Simpson, MD, MPH and Anna K. McDowell, MD

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Simpson, Scott A. (Scott Alan), 1982 author. | McDowell,

Anna K., author.

Title: The clinical interview : skills for more effective patient encounters /

Scott A. Simpson and Anna K. McDowell.

Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. | Includes bibliographical

references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019008802 | ISBN 9781138346475 (hardback : alk.

paper) | ISBN 9781138346505 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780429437243

(ebook)

Subjects: MESH: Interview, Psychologicalmethods | Mental

Disordersdiagnosis | Professional-Patient Relations | Medical

History Taking | Communication

Classification: LCC RC473.D54 | NLM WM 143 | DDC 616.89/075dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019008802

ISBN: 978-1-138-34647-5 (hbk)