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Psychiatric Interviewing Techniques

A Second Experimental Study: Eliciting Feelings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

A. Cox ,
M. Rutter  and
D. Holbrook
A. Cox*
Affiliation:
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry; now Professor of Child Psychiatry, The University of Liverpool
M. Rutter
Affiliation:
MRC Child Psychiatry Unit
D. Holbrook
Affiliation:
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry
*
PO Box 147, Liverpool L69 3BX
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Abstract

The effects of two experimental interview styles, designed to differ in the extent of their use of active feeling-oriented techniques but similar in their use of active fact-oriented techniques, were compared in initial diagnostic interviews with the mothers of children referred to a psychiatric clinic. The style that employed a higher level of actively responsive feeling-oriented techniques elicited more emotional expression and more often obtained certain feelings of potential diagnostic significance. The actively responsive style was more effective in increasing the amount of feeling expressed if mothers' spontaneous rate of expression was relatively low.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 152 , Issue 1 , January 1988 , pp. 64 - 72
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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