Part I: Clinical Interviewing: the Principles Behind the Art
1. The Delicate Dance: Engagement and Empathy
2. Beyond Empathy: Cornerstone Concepts and Techniques for
Enhancing Engagement
3. The Dynamic Structure of the Interview: Core Tasks, Strategies,
and the Continuum of Open-Endedness
4. Facilics: The Art of Transforming Interviews into
Conversations
5. Validity Techniques for Exploring Sensitive Material and
Uncovering the Truth
6. Understanding the Person Beneath the Diagnosis: the Search for
Uniqueness, Wellness, and Cultural Context
7. Assessment Perspectives and the Human Matrix: Bridges to
Effective Treatment Planning in the Initial Interview
8. Nonverbal Behavior: The Interview as Mime
Part II: The Interview and Psychopathology: from Differential
Diagnosis to Understanding
9. Mood Disorders: How to Sensitively Arrive at a DSM-5
Differential Diagnosis
10. Interviewing Techniques for Understanding the Person Beneath
the Depression
11. Psychotic Disorders: How to Sensitively Arrive at a DSM-5
Differential Diagnosis
12. Interviewing Techniques For Understanding the Person Beneath
the Psychosis
13. Personality Disorders: Before the Interview Begins - Core
Concepts
14. "Personality Disorders: How to Sensitively Arrive at a DSM-5
Diagnosis"
15. Understanding and Effectively Engaging People with Difficult
Personality Disorders: the Psychodynamic Lens
Part III: Mastering Complex Interviewing Tasks Demanded in Everyday
Clinical Practice
16. The Mental Status: How to Perform and Document It
Effectively
17. Exploring Suicidal Ideation: The Delicate Art of Suicide
Assessment
18. Exploring Violent and Homicidal Ideation: From Domestic
Violence to Mass Murder
Part IV: Specialized Topics & Advanced Interviewing - Bonus
Material Online
19. Transforming Anger, Confrontation, and Other Points of
Disengagement
20. Culturally Adaptive Interviewing: The Challenging Art of
Exploring Culture, Worldview, and Spirituality
21. Vantage Points: Bridges to Psychotherapy
22. Motivational Interviewing (MI): A Foundation Stone in
Collaborative Interviewing
23. Medication Interest Model (MIM): Moving from Mere "Adherence"
to Genuine Interest and Effective Use
Glossary & Appendices
App I: Annotated Interview (Full 60-Minute Intake)
App II: The Written Document/Electronic Health Record (EHR):
Effective Strategies
App IIA: Practical Tips for Creating a Good EHR/Write-Up
App IIB: Dictation Prompts and Quality Assurance Guidelines for the
Written Document
App IIC: Sample Written Assessment
App IID: Initial Clinical Assessment
GL: Glossary of Interview Supervision Terms
Review
"Enormously practical, elegant in execution and delightfully fun to
read, every page holds clinical wisdom . . . . I can think of no
better first book for any trainee in mental health, for it is not
only, in my opinion, an unsurpassed book about how to interview, it
is a book about why we interview. It is a book that captures the
wonderment of our work and the soul of our mission. . . . I have
never seen such great teaching videos on eliciting suicidal
ideation. They are a treasure, and I believe that many lives will
be saved by those lucky enough to view them."
From the Foreword by Jan Fawcett, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry,
University of New Mexico Recipient of Lifetime Achievement Awards
from both the American Association of Suicidology and the American
Foundation for Suicide Prevention
"Dr. Shea has done the impossible - written a text that works for
bachelors, masters, and doctoral level social workers. Throughout
the text, Shea integrates cultural humility, the client
perspective, clinical wisdom, and the best that research has to
offer. The accompanying videos are the most amazing instructional
videos I've ever seen - they include mini-lectures, video of an
actual client interview, and wondrously realistic role-plays (which
invite you into the mind of a master) and speak directly to the
content in the text. I hate to say it, but a medical doctor has
written the best social work interviewing text on the market. I
hope this text gets adopted in every school of social work."
Jonathan B Singer, Ph.D., LCSW Associate Professor School of Social
Work, Loyola University Chicago Founder and host, Social Work
Podcast
"Insightful, wonderfully practical, and surprisingly comprehensive,
Shea's chapter on culturally sensitive interviewing in Psychiatric
Interviewing: the Art of Understanding, 3rd Edition sets a new bar
on effective literature on multiculturalism. Shea not only
eloquently delineates important cross-cultural principles for
students - while modeling numerous immediately useful questions and
strategies - he provides examples of clinician/client dialogue in
which the student can actually see the interviewer gracefully
transforming awkward cultural disconnects. I've never seen anything
quite like it in the clinical literature. Simply superb! PS: Year
after year my master level counseling students have raved - and I
mean raved - about Shea's textbook, and this Third Edition looks to
be even better! I know of no book that better prepares a student
for actual clinical practice."
Dottie R. Morris, Ph.D. Chief Officer of Diversity and
Multiculturalism, Keene State College Former Director of Student
Affairs for the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program at
Antioch University New England
"Interviewing skills are not only indispensible, they are the
rate-limiting factor in providing quality care. In the 3rd Edition
of Dr. Shea's classic text, we now have an indispensable book to
match the training needs of our psychiatric residents (indeed, of
our trainees in any mental health discipline). The skills
delineated within these chapters should, in my opinion, be taught
in all psychiatric residency programs. Every resident should buy
and read this entire book before taking his or her first night of
call. Every resident. In fact, I recommend reading it twice. I
almost forgot to mention, Shea's extraordinary streaming videos
will thrust this book to the forefront of web-based learning. Trust
me on this point. They're fabulous."
James L. Knoll, IV, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry Director of
Forensic Psychiatry SUNY Upstate Medical University
"Both of the previous editions of Dr. Shea's book have anchored
Bryn Mawr's advanced clinical social work practice curriculum for a
generation of our master's degree students. This third edition is a
masterful integration of text and video instruction. Indeed, it
represents a pedagogical leap, in which Dr. Shea brings the
beginning and advanced student into the mysteries of the first
encounter with his characteristic warmth, compassion, and wisdom
that has so enthralled our students over the years. Only now, we
can see it, not only in engaging text, but in amazingly effective
video instruction and interview demonstrations, that bring to life
the clinical encounter. With the publication of this book, I
personally believe that Dr. Shea has cemented his standing as one
of the most influential mental health educators of the 21st
Century."
James A. Martin, Ph.D., LICSW Colonel, U.S. Army (Retired)
Professor of Social Work and Social Research Bryn Mawr College,
Bryn Mawr, PA.
"We have been using the second edition of this book for over a
decade at our school, and it has been an indispensable resource for
both our faculty and our students. This 3rd Edition has been
revised and expanded including fascinating new chapters on topics
such as wellness, motivational interviewing, cultural diversity and
how to collaboratively talk with patients about their medications.
Many of the chapters are enriched with engrossing video
demonstrations. I can't recommend this book enough. It will infuse
passion and curiosity in your students. It will be a resource they
will return to for learning for years to come."
Palmira Brouwer R.N. BscN, MA (psychology) Faculty Department of
Psychiatric Nursing Douglas College, B.C. Canada
"Dr. Shea is an extremely gifted teacher, whose vibrant
story-telling skills and compelling videos have led him to
garnering some of the highest evaluations in the 30 year history of
the Cape Cod Symposium. In short, readers are in for a rare treat
when viewing the book's video component."
Rob Guerette, M.D. Founder and Director of the Cape Cod
Symposium
"Here is a book I would enthusiastically recommend to all graduate
students in psychology on the art of clinical interviewing and to
all faculty who teach such courses. Even the most experienced
clinician will enjoy and learn much from this text. I don't believe
I've ever seen an author capture the pain of patients dealing with
serious disorders such as major depression, schizophrenia, and
bipolar disorder with such sensitivity and compassion, while
transforming this understanding into easily learned questions and
techniques for use in actual practice. Combine this sensitive and
comprehensive approach with Shea's skillful use of advanced
technology (over 7 hours of streaming video modules and
interviewing demonstrations) and you have a book, whose shelf-life
will be measured not in years, but decades."
Lawrence A. Welkowitz, Ph.D. Co-Editor of Asperger's Syndrome:
Intervening in Clinics, Schools and Communities Principle
Investigator: Use of iPad Assisted Learning for Autism
"While reading the pages of this wonderful book, I kept wishing I
could have held this book in my hands when I was a psychiatric
resident. Dr. Shea's stand-out chapters on personality dysfunction
(from DSM-5 differential diagnosis to the effective application of
object relations and self psychology) are suffused with an
understanding of the pain experienced by patients with personality
disorders, and the confusion and intensity they can stir-up in the
interviewer. Using Shea's techniques, clinicians will feel
competent at steering through the most turbulent and treacherous of
interpersonal eddies in order to connect with and help these
patients. Readers of this highly engaging, ground-breaking book,
and viewers of its over 7 hours of stunning videos, will be able to
become the clinicians their patients deserve, the ones they were
meant to be."
Laura Miller, M.D. Medical Director of Women's Mental Health at
Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital Professor of Psychiatry, Loyola
University Stritch School of Medicine
"This edition retains all the elements responsible for the success
of the earlier editions, yet is significantly expanded with ample
new material in the print version, additional online material, and
videos. This remains one of the premier books on the psychiatric
interview."
Susan L. Glodstein, DNP, PMHNP, BC, PMHC, BC
Clinical Assistant Professor
Director of Continuing Education
Graduate Studies
School of Nursing, Stony Brook University
"Overflowing with practical interviewing techniques for sensitively
uncovering accurate information from suicidal ideation and incest
to nuanced DSM-5 diagnostic information. Written in a remarkably
compelling and entertaining writing style. Accompanied by over
seven hours of equally compelling streaming video of Dr. Shea
demonstrating the techniques. Also, of particular note - every page
of the text mirrors the great interpersonal approach of nurses such
as Peplau and Nightingale. An extraordinarily rewarding must-read
for any graduate nurse entering the field of psychiatry - should be
mandatory reading for PMHNPs!"
Doody's Book Review Score: 97/100 - 5 Stars!
Marina Bayeva, M.D., Ph.D. Northwestern University Feinberg School
of Medicine
Reviews from Journals for Previous Editions
" Using a rich palette of information from various fields,
including psychoanalysis, behavioral psychology, and sociology, the
author writes about the entire interview, and reveals the rich
interaction that begins even before the first words are spoken . .
. . . It is no surprise that this book has been well received by
major psychiatric journals. However, it is always a pleasant
surprise to find an engaging book that is both theoretically sound
and clinically indispensable."
Doody's Book Reviewer
"This is a book I wish I could have written. . . . . can be read
with interest by expert and novice alike."
Clinical Psychology Review Arthur Weins, Ph.D.
"Rich in information, wisdom, humor, and charm, this book teaches
not only interviewing skills but also the attitudes and behaviors
that underpin the therapeutic personality and process."
American Journal of Psychiatry
"Provides a well-balanced synthesis of many approaches from various
schools of psychiatry, psychology, and counseling . . . . enjoyable
and stimulating to read. . . . . written with eloquence and
humor."
British Journal of Psychiatry
"Intensely practical, with a riveting chapter on the assessment of
risk for suicide and homicide. . . . . Reviewers have a way of
telling you that a good book is essential for every psychiatric
library. This time it really is true."
Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
"Shea's book, which is now in its second edition, is a valuable
counter-weight to the 'one size fits all' approach to interviewing
and eliciting data. It is an invaluable book for those training in
psychiatry or other mental health professions and indeed for
practicing clinicians."
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
"Rich with sensitive observations and practical suggestions and
enlivened by frequent examples of diagnostic interviewing."
Transactional Analysis Journal
"A marvelous text on an aspect of psychiatry that often does not
receive as much attention as it deserves."
Hospital and Community Psychiatry
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