With time at a premium, today''s clinicians must rapidly engage their patients while gathering an imposingly large amount of critical information. These clinicians appropriately worry that the "person" beneath the diagnoses will be lost in the shuffle of time constraints, data gathering, and the creation of the electronic health record. Psychiatric Interviewing: The Art of Understanding: A Practical Guide for Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Nurses, and other Mental Health Professionals, 3rd Edition tackles these problems head-on, providing flexible and practical solutions for gathering critical information while always attending to the concerns and unique needs of the patient.

"Includes expert consult ebook with 5 bonus chapters and over 7.5 hours of streaming vide."--Cover.

Part 1. Clinical interviewing : the principles behind the art. The Delicate Dance: Engagement and Empathy ; Beyond empathy : cornerstone concepts and techniques for enhancing engagement -- The dynamic structure of the interview : core tasks, strategies, and the continuum of open-endedness -- Facilics : the art of transforming interviews into conversations -- Validity techniques for exploring sensitive material and uncovering the truth -- Understanding the person beneath the diagnosis : the search for uniqueness, wellness, and cultural context -- Assessment perspectives and the human matrix : bridges to effective treatment planning in the initial interview -- Nonverbal behavior : the interview as mime -- Part 2. The interview and psychopathology : from differential diagnosis to understanding. Mood disorders : how to sensitively arrive at a differential diagnosis -- Interviewing techniques for understanding the person beneath the mood disorder -- Psychotic disorders : how to sensitively arrive at a differential diagnosis -- Interviewing techniques for understanding the person beneath the psychosis -- Personality disorders : before the interview begins -- core concepts -- Personality disorders : how to sensitively arrive at a differential diagnosis -- Understanding and effectively engaging people with difficult personality disorders : the psychodynamic lens -- Part 3. Mastering complex interviewing tasks demanded in everyday clinical practice. The mental status : how to perform and document it effectively -- Exploring suicidal ideation : the delicate art of suicide assessment -- Exploring violent and homicidal ideation : from domestic violence to mass murder.