A Structured Psychiatric Interview for Use in Epidemiological Studies of Mental Disorder

摘要: The Structured Psychiatric Interview is intended for use in surveys of population subgroups defined terms nonpsychiatric criteria including, example, general medical patients. Its purpose to elicit evidence current mental pathology, utilizing the essential clinical skills examiner within context a structured situation. No diagnostic inferences are made at this stage. (Such would be both inappropriate and unwise without additional information about individual subject.) Unlike some existing interviews, it does not purport “psychological test psychopathology,” thus avoiding questionable assumptions propriety summating molecular behaviors arrive “quantitative evaluation psychopathology.” Insofar as represents an organized phenomenological examination, will value case, but remains primarily epidemiological instrument economic measurements disorder with...