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The Psychiatric Interview, 4th Edition by Daniel Carlat offers a comprehensive guide for mastering the art of psychiatric interviews. Updated to reflect the latest DSM-5 criteria, this edition integrates mnemonics, practical techniques, and real-world phrasing examples to enhance your clinical interviewing skills. Whether you’re a psychiatrist, psychiatric resident, nurse practitioner, or mental health professional, this manual provides actionable insights that can be immediately applied in practice.

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• Offers a practical, concise approach to the psychiatric interview, filled with tips and pearls to develop confidence in interviewing.
• Uses mnemonics and pocket cards to help you understand and remember key elements of the effective interview.
• Brings you up to speed with the DSM-5 and current research, including changes in diagnosing dementia, substance abuse, eating disorders, ADHD, and more.
• Provides clear techniques for approaching threatening topics, and shows how relationships that are endangered can be repaired.
• Presents information in an engaging, conversational manner, helping you form an alliance with each patient in order to promote cooperation and effective treatment.
• Ideal for psychiatrists, psychiatric residents, nurse practitioners, or other mental health professionals.

Now with the print edition, enjoy the bundled interactive eBook edition, which can be downloaded to your tablet and smartphone or accessed online and includes features like:

• Complete content with enhanced navigation
• Powerful search tools and smart navigation cross-links that pull results from content in the book, your notes, and even the web
• Cross-linked pages, references, and more for easy navigation
• Highlighting tool for easier reference of key content throughout the text
• Ability to take and share notes with friends and colleagues
• Quick reference tabbing to save your favorite content for future use

Table of Content : 

1. The Initial Interview: A Preview
2. Logistic Preparations: What to Do Before the Interview
3. The Therapeutic Alliance: What It Is, Why It’s Important, and How to Establish It
4. Asking Questions I: How to Approach Threatening Topics
5. Asking Questions II: Tricks for Improving Patient Recall
6. Asking Questions III: How to Change Topics with Style
7. Techniques for the Reluctant Patient
8. Techniques for the Overly Talkative Patient
9. Techniques for the Malingering Patient
10. Techniques for the Adolescent Patient
11. Interviewing Family Members and Other Informants
12. Techniques for Other Challenging Situations
13. Practical Psychodynamics in the Diagnostic Interview
14. Obtaining the History of Present Illness
15. Obtaining the Psychiatric History
16. Screening for General Medical Conditions
17. Family Psychiatric History
18. Obtaining the Social and Developmental History
19. How to Memorize the DSM-5 Criteria
20. Interviewing for Diagnosis: The Art of Hypothesis Testing
21. Mental Status Examination
22. Assessing Suicidal and Homicidal Ideation
23. Assessing Mood Disorders I: Depressive Disorders
24. Assessing Mood Disorders II: Bipolar Disorder
25. Assessing Anxiety, Obsessive, and Trauma Disorders
26. Assessing Alcohol Use Disorder
27. Assessing Psychotic Disorders
28. Assessing Neurocognitive Disorders (Dementia and Delirium)
29. Assessing Eating Disorders and Somatic Symptom Disorder
30. Assessing Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
31. Assessing Personality Disorders
32. How to Educate Your Patient
33. Negotiating a Treatment Plan
34. Writing Up the Results of the Interview

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