Psychiatric Interview Pocket Guide

By: Bates, Chad E.

Conduct psychiatric interviews with greater structure, confidence, and clarity-even when time is short or the clinical situation is complex.Psychiatric Interview Pocket Guide is a rapid-reference clinical companion designed for psychiatrists, residents, psychiatric nurses, medical students, trainees, and other mental health professionals who need practical interviewing guidance at the point of care. The book is specifically designed to be opened during or immediately before an interview rather than read only as a traditional textbook. Psychiatric Interview Pocket Gu...
Inside, you'll find: Step-by-step techniques for psychiatric history taking, HPI, collateral information, and treatment historyPractical strategies for building rapport and managing guarded, resistant, agitated, or difficult patientsComplete guidance for the Mental Status Examination, including appearance, speech, mood, affect, thought, perception, cognition, insight, and judgmentStructured approaches to suicide risk assessment and safety planningViolence and homicide risk assessment, threat recognition, and high-acuity interviewingInterview guidance for mood, anxiety, OCD, trauma, psychotic, substance-use, personality, and neurocognitive presentationsDedicated approaches for children, adolescents, older adults, perinatal patients, culturally diverse patients, and telepsychiatryLegal, ethical, capacity, documentation, risk-formulation, and handoff guidanceQuick-reference tables, abbreviations, and a detailed index for faster lookupQR-code access to audio references for additional learning and reviewEach entry follows a consistent clinical format with sections such as Use it when, How to do it, Common error, Red flags, Safety, and Document, making essential information easier to locate quickly. Psychiatric Interview Pocket Guide.Keep practical psychiatric interviewing guidance within reach-add this point-of-care reference to your clinical library today.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HL95469X
• ISBN13: 9798177591131
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"