Unstructured Interviewing

O’Brien, William H.; Tabaczynski, Tracy

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“…While the CQs were rare in our data, they do highlight a potentially fruitful and generative way to involve children in the assessment process, and to generate critical information to inform diagnosis and treatment. The study augments the existing literature on clinical interviewing and information-gathering strategies in child mental health assessment (e.g., O’Brien & Tabaczynski, 2007), distinctly offering the specificity needed to implement questioning strategies in actual practice.…”

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“…Most existing work on child and adolescent psychological assessment has focused on which assessment methods to use (e.g., interviews and rating scales), with less attention given to how to use them. Furthermore, prior research tends to offer generic, idealized, and decontextualized accounts of practice treating clinicians' responses as unilateral moves (speech acts) divorced from the flow of interaction (e.g., O'Brien & Tabaczynski, 2007). A CA study of clinical interviewing complements existing work by offering knowledge concerning how questioning and other assessment practices can be implemented in actual practice.…”

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Soliciting children’s views on other-perspectives in child mental health assessments

Lester

O’Reilly

Smoliak

et al. 2022

Clin Child Psychol Psychiatry

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Child mental health assessments are complex and involve the analysis of data from multiple sources to inform treatment decisions. Question sequences are central to mental health assessments; however, little research has examined the functions of questions in child mental health interactions, particularly questions that aim to elicit information from children that might be used to inform diagnosis and treatment. In this study, we utilize a large corpus of video-recorded child mental health assessments to examine the use and function of a particular kind of wh-question—circular questions—that is, questions that seek clients’ views on other family members’ feelings, actions, and thoughts. Using conversation analysis, we identified three “broad” functions of circular questions in child mental health assessment. Our findings provide clinicians with clinically relevant examples for using circular questions to more fully involve children in the assessment process and acquire valuable information for diagnosis.

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Soliciting children’s views on other-perspectives in child mental health assessments

Lester

O’Reilly

Smoliak

et al. 2022

Clin Child Psychol Psychiatry

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“…It has been suggested, for example, that information derived from the unstructured interview is particularly useful as a means of augmenting data from other modes of assessment (Bagby, Wild, & Turner, 2003). Likewise, although clinical diagnostic interviews inevitably involve the goal of making accurate DSM-IV-TR (American Psychiatric Association, 2000) diagnoses (Jones, 2010), a less rigidly structured interview, in the hands of a skilled diagnostician, may provide the clinician with optimal flexibility in reaching this central assessment goal (O'Brien & Tabaczynski, 2007). Additionally, the client who is presented…”

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The clinical interview.

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Williams

Rhyner

et al. 2013

APA Handbook of Testing and Assessment in Psychology, Vol. 2: Testing and Assessment in Clinical and Counseling Psychology.

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A half century ago, influential American psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan characterized the clinical interview as a situation of primarily vocal communication . . . for the purpose of elucidating characteristic patterns of living of the subject person, the patient or client, which patterns he experiences as particularly troublesome or especially valuable, and in the revealing of which he expects to derive benefit.

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“…Zoosemiotics can help to see the continuity between the cultural (culture) and the biological (nature) and the synthesis produced by both. In practical terms, humans can also be directed to take more responsibility as the dominant or "superior" species (by far), and deal with the consequences it has presented to various animal species-especially in the context of this study, the long-tailed monkey (O'Brien & Tabaczynski, 2007).…”

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The Conflict of Role and Sign: A Zoosemiotic Approach on Long-tailed Macaque in Bali

Wikranta Kusuma Jaya

2023

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Zoosemiotics as a system of signs that occurs between animals, presents the initial premise that their existence is no longer purely biological, but vulnerable to the influence of human cultural life. This research examines the survival instincts of long-tailed macaques in a zoosemiotics approach, focusing on the need for food, and the reaction to threats. Data were collected through direct observation and unstructured interviews in two spatial distinctions, namely a natural location and an artificial location. Data analysis was carried out in an interpretive-qualitative manner. The results showed that Long-Tailed Macaques in the artificial location reacted very little to threat, in contrast to those in the natural location. Meanwhile, the need for food from long-tailed macaques in the natural location does not cause interspecies conflict as occurs in the artificial location. The influence of human cultural life has reduced long-tailed macaques' formerly more independent and purely biological survival instincts

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Unstructured Interviewing

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The clinical interview.

The Conflict of Role and Sign: A Zoosemiotic Approach on Long-tailed Macaque in Bali

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