Clinical Appraisal & Interviewing

Catalog description

This course provides the clinical psychology trainee with a comprehensive and culturally-sensitive approach to learning the techniques of clinical interviewing and diagnostic assessment. The student will learn to bring together therapeutic traits, listening skills, attending behaviors, querying practices, and psychological inference to the formal clinical interview process. Risk-management and instilling hope during the clinical interview will be addressed with standardized screening measures and brief therapeutic interventions. The trainee will participate in didactic and experiential learning through lecture, peer-to-peer mock patient interviews, a simulated patient interview, a brief intervention presentation, and a reflection paper.