Interviewing Flashcards
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What is an Interview?
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- Shared verbal experience
- Understanding of the client’s story
- Narrative of the client’s history, goals, values, concerns, motives
- A meaningful conversation
- Part of an on-going assessment
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Purposes of Interview
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- Often initial assessment
- Building therapeutic alliance (process)
- Gathering information (product)
- Observing behavior
- Building an occupational profile
- Clarifying intervention / therapist role(s)
- Establish intervention plan
3
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Considerations for an Interview
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- Therapist as position of power
- Age-appropriateness of questions, format
- Client-centered approach
- Establish trust, rapport, collaboration
4
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Facilitating Communication
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- Orientation, sensory (hearing, vision, etc)
- Getting information elsewhere (chart review)
- Communication style
- Be clear what is factual and what is interpretation!
- Confidentiality issues
5
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Types of OT Interview
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- Structured
- Semi-structured
- Unstructured
6
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Parts or Steps to Interview
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- Initiation / Opening
- Development / Body
- Closure
7
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Interviewing Basics
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- Preparing
- Questioning
- Responding
- Attending
- Observing
- Effective Listening
8
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Types of Questions
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- Open-ended
- Closed
- Why
- Indirect
- Double
- Multiple
9
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Advanced Interviewing Techniques
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- Prompting
- Silence
- Paraphrasing
- Elaboration
- Confrontation of discrepancy
- Repetition
- Clarification
- Neutral statements
- Reflective statements
