GC 684
effective clinical interviewing
This CE course provides a very comprehensive overview of theories, processes and considerations when conducting a clinical interview. Four broad areas of clinical interviewing are covered: 1. "Becoming a Mental Health Professional", 2. "Listening and Relationship Development", 3. "Structuring and Assessment" and, 4. Interviewing Special Populations." Chapters within each area discuss research, theories, cultural issues, ethics, techniques and challenges. Ultimately the course provides clear and practical knowledge of the clinical interview. This course prepares students with the knowledge and skills to conduct and document a high quality interview and assessment. Upon successful completion of this course, students are awarded 50 contact hours of continuing education credits. Course Code: GC 684.
Pre-requisite to course enrollment: this course is open to any interested health care professional. It is specifically designed as a CE course for recertification in a number of specialties including, grief counseling, stress management, crisis intervention, hypnotherapy, addictions counseling, ADHD consulting, and more.
Instructor/Course Author:
Dr. Tonia Richardson, DM, M.Ed, MA, BA
Email: drtoniarichardson@gmail.com
BOARD APPROVALS: AIHCP is an approved provider of continuing education by the American Institute of Health Care Professionals (The Provider) is approved by the California Board of Registered Nurses, Provider number # CEP 15595 for 50 Contact Hours.
This course, which is approved by the Florida State Board Of Nursing (CE Provider # 50-11975) also has the following Board of Nursing Approvals, for 50 contact hours of CE:
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the Arkansas Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the Georgia Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the South Carolina Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the West Virginia Board of Examiners for Professional Registered Nurses. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the New Mexico Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
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TIME FRAME: You are allotted three years from the date of enrollment, to complete this continuing education course. There are no set time-frames, other than the three year allotted time. If you do not complete the courses within the three year time-frame, you will be removed from the course and an "incomplete" will be recorded for you in our records. Also, if you would like to complete the courses after this three-year expiration time, you would need to register and pay the course tuition fee again.
TEXTBOOKS: There is one required textbook for this course:
Clinical Interviewing (5th edition) by: John Sommers-Flanagan and Rita Sommers-Flanagan. Wiley; 5 edition (September 30, 2013).
- ISBN-10: 1118270045
- ISBN-13: 978-1118270042
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GRADING: You must achieve a passing score of at least 70% to complete this course and receive the 50 hours of awarded continuing education credit. There are no letter grades assigned. You will receive notice of your total % score. Those who score below the minimum of 70% will be contacted by the and options for completing additional course work to achieve a passing score, will be presented.
Online Classroom Resouces and Tools
* Examination Access: there is link to take you right to the online examination program where you can print out your examination and work with it. All examinations are formatted as "open book" tests. When you are ready, you can access the exam program at anytime and click in your responses to the questions. Full information is provided in the online classrooms.
* Student Resource Center: there is a link for access to a web page "Student Resource Center." The Resource Center provides for easy access to all of our policies/procedures and additional information regarding applying for certification. We also have many links to many outside reference sites, such as online libraries that you may freely access.
* Online Evaluation: there is a link in the classroom where you may access the course evaluation. All students completing a course, must, without exception, complete the course evaluation.
* Faculty Access Information: you will have access to your instructor's online resume/biography, as well as your instructor's specific contact information.
* Additional Learning Materials: some faculty have prepared additional "readings" and /or brief lecture notes to enhance your experience. All of these are available in the online classrooms.
COURSE OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
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Verbalize a comprehensive definition of clinical interviewing
2.) Understand the nature of the interviewer-client relationship
3.) Formulate practical approaches for managing professional and ethical issues
4.) Recognize the role ethno cultural background and diversity affect interviewers listening behaviors
5.) Recognize various attending behaviors
6.) Identify non-directive and directive listening responses
7.) Understand the many types of questions available to interviewers
8.) Identify theoretical frameworks from which questions are generated
9.) Asses the benefits and liabilities of using questions with clients
10.) Describe inappropriate and unethical questions
11.) Understand general guidelines for using questions in an interview
12.) Apply a range of directive action responses
13.) Define Carl Rogers core conditions
14.) Identify psychoanalytic and interpersonal variables affecting rapport
15.) Integrate behavioral and social psychology variables into a clinical interview
16.) Employ feminist relationship factors in a clinical interview
17.) Understand why solutions-focused factors are emphasized in the clinical interview
18.) Describe structural models defining what happens in an interview
19.) Effect the introduction phase of the interview
20.) Compose the opening stage of the interview
21.) Understand processes in the information gathering stage of the interview
22.) Understand the components of the closing stage of the interview
23.) Understand the process of the termination stable of the interview
24.) Explain the nature and objectives of a typical intake interview
25.) Express strategies for identifying client problems and goals
26.) Express strategies for obtaining historical information
27.) Describe agency/institutional guidelines affecting the intake interview
28.) Explain intake interview process limited by managed care or time constraints
29.) Demonstrate how to write a professional intake report
30.) Define the mental status examination
31.) Understand cultural issues affecting the MSE
32.) Identify components of a MSE
33.) Assess when a full MSE is or is not needed
34.) Demonstrate how to write a MSE report
35.) Identify your perspective on suicide
36.) Conduct a suicide risk assessment
37.) Conduct a suicide assessment interview
38.) Discuss implications for positively and negatively worded questions in the suicide assessment interview
39.) Discuss differences between traditional and contemporary suicide assessments
40.) Understand suicide intervention methods
41.) Describe essential methods for working with suicidal clients
42.) Understand basic principles of psychiatric diagnosis
43.) Describe common problems with assessment and diagnosis
44.) Utilize methods and procedures for a diagnostic assessment
45.) Understand and demonstrate treatment planning
46.) Understand resistance
47.) Compare strategies for addressing resistance
48.) Explain specific techniques for working with different types of resistance
49.) Apply strategies and techniques for working with substance abusing clients
50.) Discuss assessment and prediction of violent/dangerous clients
51.) Identify interviewing guidelines for crisis situations
52.) Discuss special considerations with working with youth
53.) Apply strategies for making a good first impression with youth
54.) Discuss confidentiality
55.) Employ a specific technique for talking with youth about goals
56.) Demonstrate user-friendly assessment and information-gathering strategies
57.) Discuss methods of reassuring, supporting and empowering youth
58.) Address important issues when ending a session
59.) Define couples and families
60.) Apply previously discussed interviewing stages and tasks to couple and family work
61.) Identify practical and philosophical issues in working with couples and families
62.) Identify therapy concepts
63.) Assess when an/or how to shift from individual to couple or family work
64.) Define cultural competence
65.) Understand importance of self-assessing personal cultural biases and cultural self
66.) Discuss issues related to interviewing various cultures
67.) Discuss issues related to interviewing LGBT, disabled and religious clients
68.) Understand cautions and guidelines when interviewing minority clients
Course Content
1.) Theoretical orientation
2.) Foundations and preparations
3.) Basic attending behaviors
4.) Questions and action skills
5.) Evidence-based approaches
6.) The interview process
7.) Intake interview
8.) Mental Status Exam
9.) Suicide assessment
10.) Diagnosis
11.) Demanding situations
12.) Interviewing young clients
13.) Interviewing couples
14.) Interviewing diverse populations