The Psychiatric Interview 5th edition (fifth edition)

About this book

The Psychiatric Interview 5th edition by Daniel J. Carlat is a practical guide to conducting effective diagnostic psychiatric interviews and developing a productive therapeutic alliance. The book focuses on the actual language, questioning techniques, and clinical reasoning used during patient encounters, helping mental health trainees and practitioners obtain accurate information while maintaining rapport and addressing difficult or sensitive subjects.

The 5th edition covers preparation for the initial interview, establishing the therapeutic alliance, improving patient recall, changing topics effectively, and interviewing reluctant, overly talkative, malingering, agitated, and adolescent patients. It explains how to obtain the history of present illness, psychiatric history, family psychiatric history, social and developmental history, and relevant medical information. Diagnostic interviewing includes the mental status examination, DSM 5 TR criteria, suicidal and homicidal ideation, depressive and bipolar disorders, anxiety and trauma disorders, substance use disorders, psychotic disorders, neurocognitive disorders, eating disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and personality disorders.

The book is intended for trainees and practitioners in psychiatry, psychology, nursing, social work, and related mental health fields. It is particularly useful for psychiatry residents, psychiatric nursing trainees, psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner students, psychology trainees, social work students, and clinicians who need to improve diagnostic interviewing, risk assessment, symptom clarification, treatment discussions, and documentation.

Psychiatrists, psychiatry residents, psychologists, PMHNP students, psychiatric nurses, social work trainees, and other mental health professionals can use this edition to strengthen interviewing skills, organize psychiatric histories, assess diagnostic symptoms, manage challenging encounters, and negotiate treatment plans. The 5th edition, 2023 is available as a searchable PDF enhanced digital version with instant access, making it convenient for psychiatric interviewing courses, clinical rotations, supervised practice, case preparation, and professional reference.