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Build rapport and collect data: A teaching resource on the clinical interviewing intake
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This paper is an overview of the intake process for mental health helping professions. We intend for this piece to serve as a teaching resource, useful as an intake primer for novice clinicians in psychology, social work, counseling, or psychiatry, but perhaps also as a helpful review for experienced clinicians as well. We define and describe the clinical interviewing intake, discuss its history, and conceptualize it as an endeavor toward building rapport and collecting data. Specific topics we explore include: adopting an appropriate clinical attitude, engaging in cultural humility, considering practical factors about conducting the intake, viewing interviewing as an art, evaluating tools of data collection, discussing psychometric considerations in intakes (e.g., reliability, validity, standardization, and sources of data), and identifying topics to assess in-session and how to explore them. The paper closes with some summary thoughts and overall advice to those soon to embark on their first clinical interviewing intake.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Pashak, T. J., & Heron, M. R.
- Affiliations
- Saginaw Valley State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Pashak, Travis J.
- ORCID
- Pashak, Travis J.
- Venue
- Discover Psychology
- Published
- 2022-03-10
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2731-4537 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4220876137
- Cited by
- 17
- References
- 35
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1
- FWCI
- 2.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Discover Psychology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Counseling Practices and Supervision
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychology and Mental Health
- Keywords
- clinical interview, intake process, rapport building, data collection, clinical attitudes, cultural humility, reliability and validity, standardization, novice clinicians
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