The patient interview is at the heart of psychiatric practice.
Listening and interviewing skills are the primary tools the
psychiatrist uses to obtain the information needed to make an
accurate diagnosis and then to plan appropriate treatment. The
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the Accrediting
Council on Graduate Medical Education identify interviewing skills
as a core competency for psychiatric residents.
The Psychiatric Interview: Evaluation and Diagnosis is a
new and modern approach to this topic that fulfils the need for
training in biopsychosocial assessment and diagnosis. It makes use
of both classical and new knowledge of psychiatric diagnosis,
assessment, treatment planning, and doctor-patient
collaboration. Written by world leaders in education, the book is
based on the acclaimed Psychiatry, Third Edition, by Tasman
and Kay et al., with new chapters to address assessment in
special populations and formulation. The psychiatric interview is
conceptualized as integrating the patient’s experience with
psychological, biological, and environmental components of the
illness.
This is an excellent new text for psychiatry residents at all
stages of their training. It is also useful for medical students
interested in psychiatry and for practicing psychiatrists who may
wish to refresh their interviewing skills.
Tabella dei contenuti
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Listening to the Patient
2 Physician-Patient Relationship
3 The Cultural Context of Clinical Assessment
4 The Psychiatric Interview: Settings and Techniques
5 Psychiatric Interviews: Special Populations
Randon Welton and Jerald Kay
6 Formulation
Allison Cowan, Randon Welton and Jerald Kay
7 Clinical Evaluation and Treatment Planning: A Multimodal Approach
8 Professional Ethics and Boundaries
Index
Circa l’autore
Allan Tasman, MD, is Professor and Chair of the
Department of Psychiatry at the University of Louisville. An
internationally known educator and psychoanalyst, he has received
numerous national and international academic awards. He is the
founding Senior Editor of Psychiatry, an internationally
acclaimed comprehensive textbook. He is past president of the
American Psychiatric Association and the Pacific Rim College of
Psychiatrists. He recently completed service as Secretary for
Education of the World Psychiatric Association and now leads the
WPA Section on Psychotherapy.
Dr. Kay is a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists
and Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric
Association and has served as the chair of the APA Committee on
Medical Student Education, the Council on Medical Education and
Career Development, the Vestermark Award Board, and the Committee
on the Practice of Psychotherapy. He chairs the World Psychiatric
Association Task Force on Undergraduate and Post Graduate
Curriculum as well as the APA Committee on College Mental Health.
Dr. Kay is the immediate past chair of the Psychiatry Residency
Review Committee of the ACGME and the Founding Editor of the
Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research and Associate
Editor of the American Journal of Psychotherapy. He has
published extensively on the topics of medical and psychiatric
education, medical ethics, child psychiatry, psychoanalysis,
psychotherapy, the neurobiology of psychotherapy, and psychosocial
aspects of AIDS and of cardiac transplantation, and has edited
numerous books. Dr. Kay serves as the Associate Director of the
Comprehensive Neuroscience Center at Wright State University. He
received the 2001 APA Seymour Vestermark Award for contributions to
psychiatric education. Dr. Kay’s current research examines f MRI in
borderline personality disordered patients with self-harm
behavior.