Interviews Flashcards
(12 cards)
Why are interviews used in clinical psychology?
To gather personal info, is a type of psychological assessment
What happens at the start of an interview?
Interviewer will use some standardised instructions where ethical standards (e.g. HCPC guidelines) are considered to ensure patients are aware of process
Easy to understand language used
What do interviews allow? And what can interviews be?
Dialogue between clinicians + patient to learn about patient’s state, lasts between 1-2 hours
Can be structured = Specific questions asked to form diagnosis
Can be unstructured = Uses open questions to consider how individual copes with day-to-day life
How are interviews useful within clinical psychology?
Can see people’s body language + the way they act, and can gather more detail and let people expand on answers
Less risk of response bias
What was the aim of Goldstein et al (1988) study?
To see if there was gender differences in number of re-hospitalisations and length of thise stays between males + females with schizophrenia
Also to study pre-morbid factors (factors before illness onset) to see if they had impact on number + length of re-hospitalisation
What types of data did goldstein use to investigate?
Primary and secondary data
What was the sample of the study?
90 individuals aged 18-45 from America, 58 males and 32 females
How was primary data collected?
Collected about symptoms of schizophrenia and other disorders using trained interviewers using specific set of questions
There was a focus on hallucinations, formal thought disorders, isolation, withdrawal, anxiety, depression and paranoia
What was also tested in the interview?
Pre-morbid functioning, using a questionnaire from interviewer
Collected info about social idolation, relationships, and interests from 6-20 yrs old
Was assessed retrospectively
What was secondary data used to find out about?
Number of times patients were re-hospitalised + for how long
Data collected at 5 + 10 year interval
What was the mini part of the study that tested reliability?
Hospital gave detailed hsitories on 199 patients + DSM III was used to re-diagnose patients by 2 experts who were blind to hypothesis
Used this to test reliability of DSM
What was the results from the study?
Women had fewer rehospitalisations + shorter stays the]an men did
Suggests that gender differences occur during premorbid period
