Specificity of Patients' Requests in the Initial Interview

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ID13654642
AuthorsSherman Eisenthal (Harvard Medical School, corresponding author), Aaron Lazare (Harvard Medical School)
Year1976
Volume38
Issue3
Pages739-748
Publication date1976-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychological Reports (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2466/pr0.1976.38.3.739
PMID1273178
OpenAlexW2034733899
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited14

The concept of the patient's request is described in detail in relation to a negotiated approach to conduct an initial interview in a walk-in clinic and in relation to other related concepts such as patient's goals. The verbalization of specific requests of 363 patients to the psychiatric walk-in clinic of a general hospital was investigated, using a structured pre-intake interview. Although a majority of the patients (69.5%) verbalized a specific request, it was significantly less than the percentage (93%) who endorsed at least one request on the Patient Request Form. Specificity was related to socialization in the mental patient role, conditions of entry into the mental health system, and presenting complaint, but not related to demographic measures. The nonspecific patient is likely to come to the clinic at the suggestion of someone else, to be new to the clinic, having no past treatment history, and having general or situational complaints. The implications of these results for the conduct of an initial interview using the negotiated approach were discussed

Complaint · Mental health · Psychiatry · Relation (database · Situational ethics · Socialization · Clinical Psychology · Deception detection and forensic psychology · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints · Psychology · Psychology of Social Influence · Social Psychology

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