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A Method of Sensitively Raising the Topic of Suicide with an Adolescent

Borderline Personality Dynamics: the Role of Self-Normalization

Uncovering Murder/Suicide: An Ultra-Sensitive Area

Uncovering Murder and Past Violence

Medication Interest from a Child’s Needs

Shame Attenuation and Normalization: the Role of Euphemism

The “Ouch Strategy” for Improving Medication Interest and Use

Exploring Dangerous Psychotic Hyper-religiosity

Gracefully Raising the Topic of Auditory and Visual Hallucinations

Highlighting the Collaborative Nature of Healing with Medications

Yet Another Response to the “I Don’t Know” Answer

Asking Permission to Explore Sensitive Material

Exploring the Morning After the Suicide Attempt

Listening to the Patient’s Symptomatic Concerns: The List Technique

Helping Patients to Feel Comfortable with the Use of Antidepressants

Proactively Suggesting Medication Discontinuation if Needed

Uncovering the Pain Beneath the Suicidal Thought

Consulting the “Other Person”

Collaboratively Negotiating Dosage of a Medication

The “Why” Behind the Hesitancy

A Few Tips for the Closing Phase of the Interview

A Few Secrets for Uncovering Sexual Trauma

A Few Secrets for Uncovering Trauma

Uncovering Hidden Medication Expectations

Helping a Hesitant Client Share Suicidal Ideation

Uncovering the Depth of Suicidal Intent and the Concept of “Reflected Intent”

More Accurately Gauging the Dangerousness of a Suicide Attempt

Uncovering Command Hallucinations

Uncovering Auditory Hallucinations

Another Approach to the "Don't Know" Answer

Tapping for Possible Discontinuance of a Medication

The “Family Inquiry Strategy” for Increasing Medication Interest

Two Questions for Indirectly Gaining Some Insight on a Client's Suicidal Intent

When a Client Doubts Our Competence

Suggesting a “Verbal Videotape”?

Moving More Deeply Into Our Client’s Perceptions of His or Her Illness

A Key to Problematic Social Histories

“To Fill or Not to Fill”?, That Is the Question

The “Chief Concern”

First Thoughts on Suicide

Exploring Suicidal Behavior as a Form of Communication

Subtly Raising the Topic of Suicide

Taking the Heat Off of the Decision to Start a Medication

Uncovering Reasons to Live

Creating Collaborative Gratitude

The Missing Prescription

Letting the Patient Set the Goal for the Healing Intervention

Medications and Friends

Explorative Questions for Uncovering Depressive Angst and Suicidal Pain

A Gentle Way of Raising the Topic of Psychosis in an Initial Interview

A Gentle Way to Help Clients Share Problematic Behaviors

Helping with the Psychological Stress Post-Abortion

Uncovering “Passive” Suicidal Thought and Behavior

More Questions for Uncovering Suicidal Ideation and Reflected Intent

Uncovering Unusual Methods of Suicide

Finding Hope in the Darkness

Looking for the Last Drink

Another Good Probe Question for the Social History

The Empathic Power of Closed-Ended Questions

Personalizing Potential Side-Effect Choices

Uncovering the “Turning Point” with Suicide

A Simple Phrase for Disarming Anger

Two Nice Tips for Uncovering a More Valid History of Substance Use

An Intriguing Method for Uncovering the Depth of Suicidal Intent

“Why Me, Why Now?”: Pathways to Understanding the Client’s Spirituality as a Powerful Component of Suicide Assessment

Uncovering Delusional Material

“The Scale Metaphor” for Improving Medication Interest

“The Gardener’s Tip” for Improving Medication Interest

Gentle Ways of Approaching a Difficult Topic: Tips for Uncovering Incest

Another Subtle Gauge for Suicidal Intent

The Search for “Suicide Searches” on the Internet

A Family That Takes Meds Together Stays Together

Helping Patients Who Have AIDS Cope With Demoralization

Helping the Client to Pinpoint Problematic Behaviors or Situations

Raising the Topic of Physical Fighting

Helping Clients Share Childhood Behaviors Suggestive of Sociopathy

The “One-Word Difference” When Asking About Substance Abuse

Several Strategies for Uncovering Drug and Alcohol Histories (excerpted from the Psychiatric Clinics of North America)

Sensitively Uncovering the Client’s Work History – Pitfalls and Solutions (excerpted from the Psychiatric Clinics of North America)

The Waiting Room as a Place of Warmth

Medications as Tools: Patients as the Boss of Which Tool and When

The Client as Expert

The Value of Letting Patients Know the Cost of Medications that Cost Nothing

Easing the Patient’s Pain When Sharing Embarrassing Material with Both Adults and Children

Uncovering Hidden Suicidal Intent as Related to Potential Life Stressors

Helping Patients to Share Missed Medication Doses With Minimal Shame

Bypassing the word ‘But’: A Note for Supervisors and Clinicians

Increasing Medication Interest Using Crutches As a Metaphor

The ‘Learning to Ride a Bicycle’ Metaphor

Putting Trust Right Out On the Table

The Distancing Signal: Shifting from the Pronoun ‘I’ to ‘You’ by an Interviewee

Enhancing a Patient’s Belief in a Medication and the ‘Talisman Effect’

Helping a Patient Feel More Comfortable with a Reasonable Risk

A Family that Takes Meds Together Stays Together

Helping Patients with Cancer to Consider Quitting Smoking

Determining a Patient’s Attitudes Towards Taking Medications in General

Helping a Patient with Organic Brain Damage to Take Their Meds

Raising the Topic of Physical Fighting

Culling the Truth in Disability Evaluations

The Paradox of ‘Not Pushing’ Meds

Looking for a Teacher

The ‘Football on the Shelf Tip’ for Improving Medication Interest

Side Doors Into the Elicitation of Suicidal Ideation

Providing a Medication Menu

Being Sensitive and Clear with Clients When Asking About Sexual Abuse

Creatively Adapting Psychoeducation to the Needs of the Anxiety Bound Client

Cutting Through Parent Distortion

When a Client Doubts Our Competence

Two “Tricks of the Trade” for Assessing Suicidal Intent

Uncovering Command Hallucinations

Getting a Read on the Patient’s Grapevine on a Medication

A Tip from a Newspaper Journalist

Helping Clients End Sessions Promptly

Yet Another Approach to the ‘I don’t know syndrome’ with Adolescents

A Couple More Tips for Spotting Malingering

Helping Little Kids get Excited About Their Meds

Asking About Substance Abuse

Effectively Introducing the Idea of the “Treatment Team”

Gentle Way of Raising the Topic of Suicide

Helping Clients to Share Their Opinion of Their Own Suicidal Risk

A Few Tips for “Withholding Clients”

Helping the Client Pinpoint Problematic Behaviors or Situations

Talking with Children About Their Medications

Building Credibility with Parents

A Practical Tip On Easing the Pain for Parents When Reporting Child Abuse

Giving Clients Pause for Thought Concerning Suicide

A Creative Idea for Helping Patients Deal with the Possible Stigmatization of Taking a Medication at Work

Tips for Uncovering Drug and Alcohol Histories

The Power of Behavioral Specificity for Uncovering the Truth: Head Trauma

Asking the Client to Speculate on His or Her “Breaking Point”

Immediate Follow-up On Treatment Recommendations

Probing for the Possibility of Impulsive Suicide

Helping AIDS Patients to Cope with Demoralization

Assessing Suicidal Pain

A Simple Question About Meds

Focusing Upon the Client’s Strengths

Helping Client’s to Share Childhood Behaviors Suggestive of Sociopathy

Uncovering the Patient’s Understanding of His or Her Meds

Uncovering Hidden Stresses, Workloads, and Skills

Moving More Deeply Into Our Client’s Perceptions of His or Her Illness

Establishing Trust in the Correctional Setting

Caring for “the Person” in a Primary Care Setting

Helping Patients Feel Comfortable Sharing Concerns About Meds

The Importance of Primacy and Recency Effects When Teaching Our Clients

Letting Clients Help In the Formulation of Their Own Diagnosis

Instilling the Possibility of Change

Malingering or True Suicidal Intent?

Assessing a Client’s Suicidal Intent

Drawing Clients Back to Their Own Words

The Hidden Value of Asking About Accidents

Acknowledging Trust

Exploring the Ambivalence of Suicide

Effective Questions for the Closing Phase of the Interview

An Approach to Rehearsed Interviews

The Usefulness of Admitting Mistakes

Where Should We Put the Clock?

Helping Teens to Feel Comfortable Telling the Truth

Important Secrets in the “Medication Sheet”

Asking About Current “Employment Status”

Another Approach for the “I Don’t Know” Answer

A Nice Question for the Closing Phase of the Interview

Helping Patients Who Are Somaticizing to Discuss Psychiatric Symptoms

Uncovering Client Fears in the First Few Minutes

Helping Patients Feel Comfortable with Their Meds in a Primary Care Setting

Helping Clients with Severe Social Anxiety to Feel More Comfortable in the First Meeting

Helping Teenagers Feel More Comfortable Sharing Confidential Material in a Primary Care Setting

Asking Asian Americans about a Family History of Mental Illness: Some Cross Cultural Tips

Helping Clients Feel Safe to Share Their Drug and Alcohol Problems

Helping Children Relax at the Beginning of the Initial Interview

Transforming a Gremlin: the “I don’t know” Response from Adolescents

First Name or Last? How to Address the Client

Uncovering Auditory Hallucinations

The Validity Technique of “Normalization”

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