2.  It is a data gathering method to describe and predict a person’s behavior.  It must be purposeful, responsible, and goal directed.  It is reciprocal in nature– both interviewer and interviewee affect the behavior of the other.  It can be conceived as social facilitation to gather qualitative data.

3.  Effective interviewing skills are based on: › Warmth › Genuineness › Acceptance › Understanding › Openness › Honesty › Fairness

4.  Be centered, mindful & attentive.  Use open-ended questions.  Be flexible.  Avoid judgment or evaluative statements.  Avoid probing statements.  Keep personal attitudes and emotions in check.

5.  Transitional Phrases  Verbatim Playback  Paraphrasing and Restatement  Summarizing  Clarification  Empathy and Understanding

6.  Based on the idea that accurate understanding leads to self-exploration.  It makes use of open-ended questions from which to understand the interviewee.  It makes use of confrontation, but principally in the context of the therapeutic interview.

7.  They provide a specific set of questions pin a particular order.  They make use of standardized rules for probing responses.  They are used along with specific scoring procedures that are typically norm referenced.  The DSM IV is used with a structured interview.

8.  The purpose of CH interviews are to understand a person’s background.  They may are highly structured.  They are extremely high in reliability.  They yield little to no self-awareness or therapeutic effect.

9.  Interviews are prone to the Halo Effect. › The tendency to judge traits on the basis of a general impression.  Interview are effected by salient characteristics.  Interviews are effected by cultural biases and misunderstandings.  They should be regarded as yielding tentative hypotheses.

10.  The best estimate of interview reliability is based on inter-interviewer reliability.  Structured interviews are significantly more reliability than unstructured ones.  Reliability is enhanced when interviewers are trained to evaluate highly specific dimensions.