An engaging and accessible guide to developing interpersonal clinical skills in the interviewing and assessment of psychiatric patients.

Revised and updated, this practical handbook is a succinct how-to guide to the psychiatric interview. In a conversational style with many clinical vignettes, Dr

The patient interview is at the heart of psychiatric practice. Listening and interviewing skills are the primary tools the psychiatrist uses to obtain the infor

Eliciting useful information from young patients and their families is both a skill and an art, and Psychiatric Interview of Children and Adolescents, an except

A psychiatric assessment is a structured clinical conversation, complemented by observation and mental state examination, and supplemented by a physical examina