Exam 8: The Clinical Interview

An important skill for a clinical interviewer is ______, which is best described as the ability to know how he tends to affect others interpersonally and how others tend to relate to him.

Cultural variables are important in the context of a clinical interview. For example, compared to people from North America or Britain, people of Middle Eastern or Latino/Latina cultures tend to ______.

A(n) ______ interview is a special type of clinical interview designed not only to assess a problem demanding urgent attention but also to provide immediate intervention for the problem.

Describe the difference between paraphrasing and reflection of feeling.

______ is the extent to which an assessment technique correlates with other techniques that measure the same thing.

Interviewers use ______ questions when they notice discrepancies or inconsistencies in a client's comments.

Effective interviewers are skilled at ______, or repeating key words and phrases back to their clients to ensure the clients that they have been accurately heard.

Loraine is a clinical psychology graduate student conducting her first clinical interview with a client. While her client describes reasons for seeking treatment, Loraine finds herself distracted by internal thoughts such as, "What questions should I ask next?" and "When is the project due for my linear regression class?" In this instance, Loraine has the opportunity to improve which general skill of clinical interviewing?

It is important for clinical interviewers to appreciate how communication styles tend to differ across cultures. For example, ______.

A ______ interview is used to diagnose. The interview should facilitate assignment of an accurate DSM disorder to the client.

Devlin and Nasar (2012) found that therapists and nonprofessionals asked to rate pictures of offices preferred clinicians' offices that ______.

In the context of the clinical interview, the term quieting yourself is best described as the ______.

______ is the extent to which an assessment technique yields consistent, repeatable results.

Cultural variables are important in the context of a clinical interview. For example, compared to traditional Western culture, Asian cultures tend to feature ______.

______ of clinical psychologists use clinical interviews as part of their assessment processes.

Briefly explain some gender-based differences in communication styles that are important for a clinical interviewer to appreciate.

Positive working relationships with clients ______.

Of all the available assessment procedures, clinical psychologists rely most frequently on the ______.

______ reliability is the extent to which an assessment technique yields similar results across different administrators.

Interviewers who use a(n) ______ style of interviewing allow the client to determine the course of the interview.