COMPLETE REVIEWED ACCURATE ANSWERS
STUDY GUIDE
1. introduction
2. consent to proceed
3. nature of interaction
4. amount of time for the interview
5. assess if treatment is voluntary or involuntary - answer ✔✔-Agreement as to process
1. Assure privacy, explain meaning of confidentiality and who information will be shared with
2. explain duty to warn
3. fee family members with the patient present, ensure consent is given (provider should listen not
present information.
4. If recordings or one way mirrors are used patient must be informed and give consent. - answer ✔✔-
Define privacy and confidentiality
Treatment patients with respect and be considerate to circumstance to alleve or not further aggravate
anxiety - answer ✔✔-Define respect and consideration
Harmonious responsiveness of the provider to the patient. Empathic interventions increase rapport to
understand patient feelings while maintaining objectivity mostly nonverbal (putting pen down or leaning
towards patient) - answer ✔✔-Define Rapport
Objectivity as it differentiates empathy from identification.
Identification causes lose of objectivity and blurs boundaries. - answer ✔✔-What is a crucial element of
empathy
1. Desire for help
,2. Providers respect and consideration
3. non-judgmental attitude
4. demonstration by provider they understand what patient is stating or emoting
5. patient thinks provider cares
6. genuiness of provider. - answer ✔✔-What are the ingredients for good patient provider relationship
1. Provider qualifications, if sarcastic address issue that provoked it.
2. No personal information directly unless it is patient centered, NO physician centered information. -
answer ✔✔-What questions about self should the provider answer
The process of a patient unconsciously and inappropriately displacing onto individual in patients current
life those patteren of behavior and emotional reactions that originated with significant figures usually
from childhood. - answer ✔✔-Define unconscious transference in a patient
The provider unconsciously displaces onto the patient patterns of behavior or emotions as if they were a
significant figure from earlier in the providers life. - answer ✔✔-What is unconscious counter-
transference
The processes conscious or unconscious that interfere with the therapeutic objectives of treatment -
answer ✔✔-What are resistances
Repression causes unawareness, interpretations are interventions that undo the processes of repression
and allow the unconscious thought and feelings that come to awareness. - answer ✔✔-What is
repression, and how do interpretations help?
Focus of interview is on understanding the patient and enabling the patient to tell his or her story, the
individuality of the patients experience is the main theme - answer ✔✔-What does a patient centered
interview?
1. early life experiences
2. family
3. education
,4. occupation
5. religious beliefs
6. hobbies/talents
7. relationships
8. losses. - answer ✔✔-What information according to Adolf Meyer is collected in the interview
Focuses on strengths and weaknesses.
tell me what you do best?
Open ended questions can be affected by patient mood or self image. - answer ✔✔-What type of
questions are asked in a patient centered approach.
1. have other staff present
2. leave door ajar
3. terminate interview if patient becomes aggitated. - answer ✔✔-What is the actions taken to provide
safety and comfort of provider.
1. reassure them of their safety.
2. ensure appropriate staff will available.
3. ensure comfort
4. offer tissue or water. - answer ✔✔-What is the actions taken to provide safety and comfort of the
patient
Initial interview should be 45-90 minutes, if patient is distressed 20-30min.
After initial interview provider will make decisions about subsequent visits. - answer ✔✔-What are
recommended time and session numbers.
Name
age
address
telephone numbers
, who referred patient
reason for referral
insurance information - answer ✔✔-What information should be gathered during the first call to the
office.
length of time for initial interview
fees
who to call for further questions. - answer ✔✔-What information should be given to client during first
call
information about past psychiatric and medical treatments
medications/preferebly medications themselves - answer ✔✔-What should the patient bring to the first
appt.
determination of disability
questions of competence/capacity
cause or contributors of the psychiatric illness - answer ✔✔-What can be some different goals that the
patient may be seen for.
demographic and insurance forms
information given on practice contact for after hours
HIPAA mandated information.
list of medications requested
name and address of primary care
identification of major medical problems and allergies.
major reason for the visit.
rating scales PHQ-9, or QIDS-SR - answer ✔✔-What is completed in the waiting room
1. choice of hardback or soft chair
2. interviewer and patient chairs should be equal in height.