Behind Closed Doors: The Excellent Clinical Interview
This workshop provides practical tools for moving efficiently and confidently through a complete interview and mental status examination while establishing and maintaining rapport with our clients. This workshop empowers clinicians to make the best possible use of the interview process, from scheduling the client to timely completion of documentation and billing. Dr. Nowell's expertise comes not only from his extensive clinical experience, IME provider, and disability examiner, but also as a peer medical record reviewer.
This workshop is for you if you are...
- a therapist-in-training;
- a new graduate;
- an early-career clinician;
- a seasoned clinician.
CEUs are available for the following:
Psycholgists: 6 CEUs
Social Workers: 5.5 CEUs
Licensed Mental Health Counselors: 5.5 CEUs
Your clinical interview skills will improve by...
- Learning specific strategies for eliciting client symptoms and describing a client's presentation;
- Mastering the distinction between clinical signs and symptoms and determining how to inquire about the functional impact of mental health disorders;
- Flexibly applying the mental status examination to a wide variety of individuals and settings;
Your efficiency will improve by...
- Learning how to avoid common misapplications of DSM-IV-TR terminology.
- Learning efficient scheduling and interview strategies in order to produce effective and concise documentation;
- Knowing how to employ specific strategies for addressing difficult topics in the interview;
- Knowing how to provide effective feedback to clients and foster collaborative efforts to direct treatment planning decisions.
Workshop overview...
- The Conversation that Unites Your knowledge with Your Client's Experience
- ABC STAMPLICKER: a Comprehensive Mental Status Examination
- Making the DSM Work for You and Your Client
- Parsimony, Payment, and Protection: Maximal Documentation/Minimal Agony
Additional topics...
- Cultural competency;
- Making the best use of clinicians' reactions to clients;
- Concise clinical documentation (good and better examples are presented);
- Scheduling and billing procedures;
- Review of available technology for efficient documentation.
