Components of the Psychiatric Interview and Importance of the Elements

Components of the Psychiatric Interview and Importance of the Elements

Components of the Psychiatric Interview and Importance of the Elements

The psychiatric interview is crucial in building a rapport with the patient to collect data about current and past mental health and medical

conditions and relevant developmental, interpersonal, and social history. The three important components of the psychiatric interview that I consider

important are the Standard for Clinician’s Interview in Psychiatric (SCIP), which provides diagnosis consistent with DSM criteria (Aboraya et al., 2016).

It helps collect dimensional scores, diagnostic classification of psychiatric disorders, and numeric data; the etiological components help psychiatrists and

psychologists determine the cause of clients’ mental health conditions. The etiology of mental health condition can be attributed to genetic components,

substance abuse, or an early loss of a parent, which can result in the patient suffering severe psychological trauma; and the disorder classification

component enables the psychiatrist and psychologist during collection and examination of patients to classify the disorder the patient present and treat

appropriately (Aboraya et al., 2016).