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Structured Interviews

Structured Interviews. Diagnostic This paralleled the development of more specific taxonomies of childhood disorders. (1980, DSM-III) Descriptive Describe children’s behavioral problems versus detect prespecified syndromes. Interviews.

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Structured Interviews

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

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

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

  5. 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?

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

  7. 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

  8. Diagnostic Interview • Strengths: flexibility, determine clients’ stories, can include personal contact, best way to obtain historical data, direct observations, other________________ • Limitations:expense, time, bias, generational conflict, reliability, validity, other__________

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

  10. Constructing the Interview • Rapport/Structuring • Problem Definition/Asset Definition • Determining Outcomes • Generating Alternatives/Confronting Incongruity • Generalization/Transfer of Learning

  11. Interviews • Screening Tools • Semi-structured • Highly Structured

  12. Interviews

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