Which of the following is NOT an advantage of the unstructured interview?
a. It assures all topics are adequately discussed.
b. It creates an atmosphere that is conducive to rapport building.
c. It allows the client to feel as if he or she is directing the interview thus allowing the client to discuss items that he or she deems important.
d. It offers the potential for greater depth of information and the uncovering of underlying issues that the client might otherwise avoid revealing.
Q. 2Which of the following is NOT a disadvantage of the structured interview?
a. It can cause the examiner to miss important pieces of information because items are pre-determined.
b. It creates an atmosphere that might be experienced as dehumanizing by the client.
c. It can result in misinterpretation of items by clients, or of client responses by examiners, when working with minority clients or others who may be less familiar with items.
d. It may focus too much on one area at the exclusion of others.
Q. 3Which of the following is NOT an advantage of the structured interview?
a. It offers broad enough areas of content to cover topics a practitioner may otherwise have missed.
b. It increases the reliability of results due to the fact that all prescribed items will be covered.
c. It allows the client the freedom of response to discuss other items, if need be.
d. It helps the examiner to focus on specific items that may otherwise be missed or difficult to cover during an unstructured interview.
Q. 4Which of the following is NOT suggested in the text as guidelines to be cognizant of in order to adequately interview a client?
a. Establish trust and rapport.
b. Provide an environment that is comfortable and assures confidentiality.
c. Focus on verbal and nonverbal cues in an effort to gather all of what the person is communicating to you.
d. Be confrontational if necessary regarding substance use and abuse.
Q. 5Which of the following is NOT true about the clinical interview?
a. It helps to set a tone for the types of information that will be covered.
b. It allows the clinician to examine areas of the client's life that are not critical to the overall assessment process.
c. It helps the client to become desensitized to intimate and personal information.
d. It allows the examiner to assess non-verbals.
e. It gives the client and examiner the opportunity to assure that they can work together.
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