Clinical Skills Psychiatric Clinical Skills David S Goldbloom. Toronto (ON): Elsevier Canada; 2006. 408 p. CDNS66.95.
Reviewer rating: Excellent
Today, clinical assessment is often reduced to ticking off a diagnostic checklist, and the time pressure and managed care constrict the contact with a patient. Systematic, comprehensive observing and differential psychopathology are often neglected. This excellent book on clinical skills and interviewing counteracts successfully such an unfortunate fashion.
The reader is taken from the preliminaries, such as how to set the stage and explain the interview to the patient, through the basic structure of the interview, all the …
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