Structured Interviews

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Structured Interviews

• Diagnostic
• This paralleled the development of more specific
  taxonomies of childhood disorders. (1980,
  DSM-III)
• Descriptive
• Describe childrens behavioral problems versus
  detect prespecified syndromes.

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Interviews

• Highly Structured-specify exact wording and order
  of questions, have rules for recording and rating
  responses. The interviewer has little freedom to
  change the format.
• Semi structured-less restrictive, permit the
  interviewer to be flexible in conducting the
  interview.

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Interviews

• Assets
• Structured
• Minimizes the role of clinical judgment, yields
  more objective and reliable data.
• Semi-structured
• Permits a more spontaneous interview, can be
  adapted to individual.

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Interviews

• Limitations
• Structured
• Rigid, mechanical,stilted interview style.
• Semi-structured
• More variance, lower reliability.

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Unresolved IssuesInterviews

• Who is the interviewee?
• Child, parent, teacher, peer, sibling
• How structured is the interview?
• Standardized and objective, guidelines, open
  ended
• When does clinical judgment become bias?
• Under what circumstances would one approach be
  better than the other?
• Validity of taxonomies?

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Interview

• A conversation between two or more people
  conducted in order to obtain information.
• Face to Face
• Telephone
• Internet
• Fax

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Culturally Competent Interviewer

• Beliefs and attitudes about self and others
• Knowledge about self, others, institutional
• barriers, and sociopolitical system.
• Skills in delivering services to a wide
• variety of clients

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Diagnostic Interview

• Strengths flexibility, determine clients
  stories, can include personal contact, best way
  to obtain historical data, direct observations,
  other________________
• Limitationsexpense, time, bias, generational
  conflict, reliability, validity, other__________

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Microcounseling

• Microcounseling-skilled based framework for
  teaching the interview process.
• Listening
• Open and closed questions
• Encouraging
• Paraphrasing
• Reflection of feelings
• Summarization

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Constructing the Interview

• Rapport/Structuring
• Problem Definition/Asset Definition
• Determining Outcomes
• Generating Alternatives/Confronting Incongruity
• Generalization/Transfer of Learning

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Interviews

• Screening Tools
• Semi-structured
• Highly Structured

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Interviews