This is the first part of a clinical psychological interview that I need done, with a list of at least 15 to 20 questions for the "therapist" to gain information. It needs examples of paraphrasing, summary, silence, interpretation, and reflection) Please make sure you give valid answers and easy to find references from active links on websites. Please FOLLOW the rubric (the part in the blue chart). The "client" is female.

 

Assignment 2: LASA 1—Create an Interview Guide
By Wednesday, June 21, 2017 complete the following assignment below.
Directions:
During the first week of class you conducted your first practice interview. You have since had
the opportunity to learn about the formal process of interviewing and the techniques used in
interviewing. With this new information in mind, it is time to develop a detailed plan for your
second interview, which you may conduct face-to-face or over the telephone. Your second
interview is broken down into two parts.
A. The first portion, preparing for the interview, is due this week in Module 3 (LASA 1).
B. The second part of this assignment, conducting and analyzing the interview, is due in
Module 5 (LASA 2).
For this week you will be completing A. You will need to:
1. Locate a Volunteer:
He/she will play the role of “client” seeking help for persistent headaches and problems
sleeping. The person you interview can be someone you know personally or you can
contact your classmates through the Student Lounge to arrange to interview one another.
a. The client believes that stress may be part of the problem with his/her symptoms.
Remember that this is a role play, and your volunteer should be aware that this is
a practice interview and not a real psychological interview.
b. Prior to conducting your interview, ask your volunteer to think about stress that
s/he can discuss related to the client’s problems (e.g., your client may think about
stress from a job or stress related to a relationship with a significant other).
However, DO NOT have your volunteer discuss this stress with you prior to the interview. You want to be able to explore this topic in depth during your
interview. This scenario is intentionally left open-ended in order to allow students
to maximize opportunity to utilize interview skills during the interview.
2. Create an Interview Guide:
a. In order to achieve a quality interview, you will need to first plan your interview,
which is this week’s assignment (you will conduct and analyze the interview in
Module 5).
b. The purpose of your interview is to gather in-depth information to aid in diagnosis
and treatment planning for the client. You will need to gather detailed
information about the symptoms being reported for both headaches and sleep
problems (e.g., How often are the headaches occurring? How long do they last?
What do they feel like? Has any treatment helped? Is there any pattern to the
headaches?). You will also need to present a complete picture of the patient.
What is the patient’s gender, age, marital status, and employment status? Be sure
to go beyond these example questions, and provide an in-depth, highly detailed
interview with your client.
Interview Guide Topics
The Interview Guide should directly address the below topics. Use each of these topics as
headings within your paper to ensure that you directly respond to each. You should respond
with at least a paragraph for each topic/heading.
1. Identify and summarize the purpose of your interview. How will the
information you gather be used? 2. Explain how you will structure the interview and your reasoning behind
the structuring of the interview. Include a list of topics you plan to cover.
3. Compose the questions you will use to obtain the information (develop a
minimum of 15-20 questions). Be sure that you develop a minimum of 5
open and 5 closed ended questions.
4. Develop a minimum of 5 examples of paraphrasing, summaries, or
reflections techniques that could be used during your interview (must have
at least one of each paraphrase, summary, and reflection). When you
conduct your actual interview, these exact examples you create may not fit
depending on the responses of your interviewee, but it is important to start
thinking now about how you will incorporate these techniques. For this
Interview Guide assignment, develop hypothetical examples of each type
of technique.
5. Identify the opening techniques you will utilize to build rapport with the
volunteer/client.
6. Identify types/examples of questions you want to avoid during interview.
Include an Analysis Summary:
In addition to the Interview Guide include an analysis (2-3 paragraphs) of your own preliminary
thoughts about this client based on the limited information you have about this client. Have you
ever known a person with chronic headaches or sleep problems? What is your “gut reaction” to
hearing about a patient with chronic headaches and problems sleeping? That the person is a
complainer? Is he/she a victim of terrible illness? Spend some time examining your thoughts and
attitudes. It is normal for all of us to make at least preliminary assumptions about everyone we come in to contact with, and a good interviewer has awareness of his or her preliminary
assumptions. Include the following in your analysis:
a. Identify your own beliefs (sympathetic, unsympathetic, or some mixture of both) and
explain how these could affect your interview. Do you think that your beliefs are
influenced by your own age, cultural, gender, sexual orientation, or ethnicity?
b. Identify steps you can take to limit the impact of your own beliefs on the interview. Be as
specific as possible.
Start planning now! Remember that you will need a volunteer to role play your client in
Module 5. Work on identifying that person now and scheduling your interview well in advance
to avoid any possible scheduling delays. You will also need to audio or video record the
interview in Module 5 so that you can later transcribe the interview. Make sure you have access
to the equipment you will need.
Submit your assignment to the M3: Assignment 2 Dropbox.
Maximum
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Identified and summarized the purpose of the interview.
Listed the topics he/she planned to cover during the Points
16 interview. Explained how to structure the interview and the 16
reasoning behind the structuring of the interview.
Composed the questions (5 open ended and 5 closed ended)
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to be used to obtain the information during the interview.
Develop hypothetical examples for at least 5 techniques
(paraphrasing, summaries, or reflections) that could be used 16
during the interview.
Identified the opening techniques to be utilized to build
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rapport with the volunteer/client. Identified types/examples of questions you want to avoid
16
during the interview.
Identified and explained how one’s own beliefs could affect
the interview. Analyzed how beliefs are influenced by one’s 32
own cultural, gender, sexual orientation or ethnicity.
Identified steps to take to limit the impact of one’s own
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beliefs on the interview.
Style (4 points): Tone, audience, and word choice
Organization (12 points): Introduction, transitions, and
conclusion
Usage and Mechanics (12 points): Grammar, spelling, and
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sentence structure
APA Elements (16 points): In text citations and references,
paraphrasing, and appropriate use of quotations and other
elements of style
Total: 200

 

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