Interview Skills

A psychologist or psychiatrist carries out interviews with the child and family and a review of the child’s past records, behavioural interventions, and developmental history are taken.

Dual diagnosis refers to the co-existence of a developmental disability (DD) and a mental health problem, and those who present with this type of diagnosis receive support from a number of different experts on CAMH’s interdisciplinary team. Before any client is admitted to the inpatient unit, the team attempts to collect as much information about the individuals as possible (i.e. past diagnoses, family history, psychological/behaviour assessments, etc.) and document this information on their online database and in separate client binders located on the unit. In order to build a rapport with each other clients, I started by first reading each of their binders and files. This information gave me a better understanding of their strengths and needs, as well as the best ways to communicate. For example, client PC, presenting with ASD, DD, and ADHD, was mostly nonverbal and communicated by touching your hand and guiding you or by using loud vocalizations. While becoming familiar with his file, I learned that he could read, write and understand basic math equations at a grade 3 level. Using this information, I prepared a package filled with different worksheets and sat with him in the lounge while he completed them. Although he was nonverbal, he would communicate that he wanted me to mark his math homework by passing me the sheet and handing

The assessment holistic approach to understanding what has occurred and currently occurring in the clients life as well as understanding what is considered a priority of treatment for them and their guardian. The assessment begins with the presenting issues asking what brought the client in. The section also covers when the problem started, how long it has been going on, what is the level of intensity of the problems, and how frequently do they occur. In the family and social history section examples of questions asked are current household member, how does the client get along with others, client's strengths, and who do they go to when they need help. The next section is the abuse and sexual risk behavior where the client is asked if they feel safe inside and or outside there home and if they have or know of anyone that has been abused or neglected. Developmental history is then taken, which includes history of pregnancy, any disorder or disabilities the client has been diagnosed with, and delays in any motor

Tim felt a lot of shame because

This can lead to: lack of concentration, interview lasting longer or be terminated, which can result in unreliable answers. To possibly avoid these I could: go in a quiet room, allow extra time and avoid sensitive questions. I will be doing interviews with teachers that teach visually impaired children rather than the child because the child may feel uncomfortable talking one-to-one with an unknown adult and yet I can still get the answers needed through the

He does this because in the end of the story all the hard work he has done and ethics he had learned had paid off. Tim encountered internal conflict when he

• To continue improving interviewing skills based upon cultural differences, diagnoses, and the person in environment: my task for this assignment would be interviewing older adult clients from various cultural background and diverse groups such as differences in language, diagnoses, as well as exploring the person in the environment in the weekly care plan meetings. In addition, I also conduct ten to twenty minutes to conduct information for the BIMS assessment. I will achieve this goal by being able to refocus and retract the conversation with the client as I conduct the BIMS assessment. • To continue improving professional communication skills: Through interviewing and interacting with the clients I will improve my communications skills by active listening and clarifying the information that the client states. I will achieve these by being careful of my body language as well as being attentive to the way in which I respond to the client.

Assessment Complete • Pattern of Coping and Stress Tolerance – He follows a strict regimen to cope such as: watching Jeopardy, Monday’s pizza dinner, Tuesdays pancakes with maple syrup. – He gets nervous and states “Who’s on First?” when he is around new people • Pattern of Values and Beliefs – Because he had been a resident for over 20 years, he trusted those at the mental institute. Analysis of Health Assessment • Normal assessment findings – Alert and Oriented to person, place, time.

I would ask questions such as, “what is the reason you two have decided to come to therapy?”, “what are the present issues that concern you?”, and “what are your expectations of therapy?”. Then after that I would assess Gary’s and Brook’s relationship by asking them questions such as, “what problems that you have identified are concerning or time consuming at the moment?” and “what situations or experiences enact this miscommunication?” After assisting their issues, I would assign homework that would allow them to use critical thinking and problem

I was pleased with the way this session went because I had gain rapport with the client. The client nationality was Hispanic but he spoke low literacy English. The overall skills used with the client was standard greeting, open ended response to help him get started. I used furthering response to get the questions answered for his health care and nonverbal response to keep the process going. At times during the interview I had to also use emphatic response to show my concerns.

(B) Discuss how it would be best to handle this, including the best outcome for the client.

To gather information about Tim’s current developmental and mental position I would use my active listening skills. By utilizing these skills, I would be paying attention and taking note of things like his body language towards me and his difficulty in keeping eye contact. Once Tim feels a little bit more comfortable in this situation asking open ended questions could help gain an understanding of where he feels he is regarding his mental state and finding out all possible details that I can. An example of an open ended question that I could ask Time would be ‘can you tell me more about the time that you had overdosed on drugs?’. Along with the open

Becoming acquainted with a potential client’s history, personality and present concerns is necessary in forming a foundation for counseling interventions. This information gathering phase is referred to as assessment (Mears, 2010). While some mental health professionals will use an interview as their primary assessment tool, others will utilize testing

Conducting interviews is fundamental as a case manager. In order to understand more about good interviewing, I decided to watch an interview about an addict mother conducted by Dr. Phil. While watching this interview, I made some notes on attitudes and characteristics that I considered important for good interviewing. The characteristics will be presented in the following paragraphs.

Communication is the most important tool to being a good health provider. This assignment analyses an interview between a student from Perth Institute of Business and Technology, who acts as a health care professional and another student who takes up the role of a patient. The areas of communication focused in this analysis are interviewing skills, listening skills and questioning skills. There are examples provided for each aspect followed by suggestions and recommendations for future practices. However, the information in this assignment is fictitious.