Approaching the mind in clinical interviewing: the techniques of soundings and counterprojection / Leston Havens -- New approaches for creating the therapeutic alliance solution-focused interviewing, motivational interviewing, and the medication interest model / Michael K.S. Cheng -- Practical interviewing strategies for building an alliance with the families of patients who have severe mental illness / Aaron Murray-Swank, Lisa B. Dixon and Bette Stewart -- Talking with patients about spirituality and worldview : practical interviewing techniques and strategies / Allan M. Josephson and John R. Peteet -- How to pass the psychiatry oral board examination / Jack Krasuski -- My favorite tips from the "Clinical interviewing tip of the month" archive / Shawn Christopher Shea -- My favorite tips for detecting malingering and violence risk / Phillip J. Resnick -- My favorite tips for sorting out diagnostic quandaries with bipolar disorder and adult attention deficit hyperactiviity disorder / Daniel J. Carlat -- My favorite tips for exploring difficult topics such as delusions and substrance abuse / David J. Robinson -- My favorite tips for engaging the difficult patient on consultation-liaison psychiatry services / David J. Knesper -- My favorite tips for uncovering sensitive and taboo information from antisocial behavior to suicidal ideation / Shawn Christoper Shea -- Our favorite tips for "getting in" with difficult patients / Ekkehard Othmer, J. Philipp Othmer. Sieglinde C. Othmer -- Our favorite tip for interviewing veterans / James Morrison, James Boehnlein -- Our favorite tips for interviewing couples and families / John Sommers-Flanagan, Rita Sommers-Flanagan -- Designing clinical interviewing training courses for psychiatric residents : a practical primer for interviewing mentors / Shawn Christopher Shea, Ron Green, Christing Barney, Stephen Cole, Graciana Lapetina, Bruce Baker
The following additional material available online to subscribers at www.psych.theclinics.com in the June 2007 issue: Macrotraining : a "how to" primer for using serial role-playing to train complex clinical interviewing tasks such as suicide assessment / Shawn Christopher, Christine Barney -- The art of effectively teaching clinical interviewing skills using role-playing : a primer / Christine Barney, Shawn Christopher Shea -- Facilic supervision and schematics : the art of training psychiatric residents and other mental health professionals how to structure clinical interviews sensitively / Shawn Christopher Shea, Christine Barney