Structured and Semistructured Interviews for Differential Diagnosis: Fundamental Issues, Applications, and Features

Abstract

Structured and semistructured interviews were developed to address the difficulties that clinicians and researchers historically have had in making accurate diagnoses of mental disorders with traditional unstructured clinical interviews. This chapter provides a basic introduction to the structured and semistructured interviews used to diagnose psychopathology among adults. It discusses the basic types of structured and semistructured interviews, and this is followed by an exploration of their major features, advantages, and drawbacks. The chapter provides a discussion of the most popular multidisorder structured and semistructured interviews that are used to diagnose clinical disorders and personality disorders. The chapter describes the changes made to some of the major structured and semistructured interviews, as these measures have been updated to reflect the changes in DSM-5 . Structured and semistructured interviews assist with the differential diagnosis of all major clinical disorders and personality disorders.

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