Structured and Semistructured Interviews

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Publisher Summary This chapter provides an overview of the major features and advantages of structured interviews, followed by a discussion of the most popular multidisorder structured interviews. The chapter highlights the fact that structured and semistructured interviews have greatly facilitated the task of differential diagnosis and problem clarification in diverse clinical and research settings. The reliability of diagnosis is much improved with the use of structured interviews, compared to the unstandardized approach, which is common in clinical practice. Improved reliability provides the foundation for enhanced validity or meaningfulness of diagnosis. Given the field's recent emphasis on empirically supported psychotherapeutic interventions and processes, it is hoped that a concomitant focus on clinically relevant, standardized, and validated assessment procedures will be realized as well. Structured and semistructured interviews can and should play an important role in the advancement of the science of clinical psychology. This chapter concludes with a review of more specialized structured interviews to provide the reader with an appreciation for the diversity of clinical information that structured interviews can provide.

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