Psychiatric Interviewing Techniques: I. Methods and Measures

1981 ◽  
Vol 138 (4) ◽  
pp. 273-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Rutter ◽  
A. Cox
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Clinic ◽  
Factual Information ◽  
Rater Reliability ◽  
Phase Study ◽  
Diagnostic Interviews ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Child Psychiatric ◽  
Expressed Emotions ◽  
Interviewing Techniques

SummaryAn account is given of the overall strategy and measures used in a three-phase study of styles and techniques employed in the initial diagnostic interviews with the parents of children referred to a child psychiatric clinic. The measures of interview style included interviewer activity and talkativeness, directiveness, types of questions and statements, interventions designed to elicit or to respond to feelings, and non-verbal qualities. The informant's response and the interview ‘outcome’ were assessed through measures of the quantity and quality of factual information obtained, and of the extent of expression of emotional feelings by the informant. Good inter-rater reliability was achieved with most measures. Some difficulties were experienced in achieving comparable thresholds for the recognition of expressed emotions.

Psychiatric Interviewing Techniques V. Experimental Study: Eliciting Factual Information

1981 ◽  
Vol 139 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Cox ◽  
M. Rutter ◽  
D. Holbrook
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Factual Information ◽  
Diagnostic Interviews ◽  
The Family ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Clinically Significant ◽  
Interviewing Techniques ◽  
Factual Data

SummaryFour experimental interview styles, each recommended by experts in the field, were compared for their efficiency in eliciting factual information during the initial diagnostic interviews with the mothers of children referred to a psychiatric out-patient clinic. If encouraged to talk freely, mothers tended to mention most (but not all) key issues without the need for standardized questioning on a pre-determined range of topics. However, systematic questioning was essential in order to obtain good quality factual data. Better data were obtained when interviewers were sensitive and alert to factual cues and chose their probes with care. Clinically significant factual information, idiosyncratic to the family and outside the range of standard enquiry was common, but was obtained satisfactorily with all four styles. No one style was generally preferred by informants. The advantages of systematic questioning for obtaining factual information were not associated with any disadvantages with respect to the eliciting of emotions and feelings.

Psychiatric Interviewing Techniques II. Naturalistic Study: Eliciting Factual Information

1981 ◽  
Vol 138 (4) ◽  
pp. 283-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Cox ◽  
K. Hopkinson ◽  
M. Rutter
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Choice ◽  
Psychiatric Clinic ◽  
Naturalistic Study ◽  
Multiple Choice Questions ◽  
Factual Information ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Video And Audio ◽  
Directive Style ◽  
Interviewing Techniques

SummaryA naturalistic study was undertaken of 36 video and audio taped interviews made by 7 different psychiatric trainees. The interviews studied were those conducted in the ordinary course of clinic work for diagnostic and therapeutic planning purposes by trainees when first seeing the parent or parents of a child newly referred to a psychiatric clinic. It was found that a directive style with specific probes and requests for detailed descriptions was associated with the obtaining of better-quality factual information than that associated with a more free-style approach. Interviewers who talked less and who made more use of open questions and checks tended to have more talkative informants. Double questions were liable to result in ambiguous answers, but multiple-choice questions did not appear to cause distortion and in some circumstances might be helpful.

Psychiatric Interviewing Techniques

1988 ◽  
Vol 152 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Cox ◽  
M. Rutter ◽  
D. Holbrook
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Psychiatric Clinic ◽  
Diagnostic Significance ◽  
Spontaneous Rate ◽  
Diagnostic Interviews ◽  
Interviewing Techniques

The effects of two experimental interview styles, designed to differ in the extent of their use of active feeling-oriented techniques but similar in their use of active fact-oriented techniques, were compared in initial diagnostic interviews with the mothers of children referred to a psychiatric clinic. The style that employed a higher level of actively responsive feeling-oriented techniques elicited more emotional expression and more often obtained certain feelings of potential diagnostic significance. The actively responsive style was more effective in increasing the amount of feeling expressed if mothers' spontaneous rate of expression was relatively low.

Psychiatric Interviewing Techniques VI. Experimental Study: Eliciting Feelings

1981 ◽  
Vol 139 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Cox ◽  
D. Holbrook ◽  
M. Rutter
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Psychiatric Clinic ◽  
Emotional Cues ◽  
Diagnostic Interviews ◽  
Interviewing Techniques

SummaryFour experimental interview styles, designed to differ in the extent of their use of active fact-oriented and active feeling-oriented techniques, were compared in relation to their use in the initial diagnostic interviews with the mothers of children referred to a psychiatric clinic. All four styles proved to be effective in eliciting emotions and feelings, but the findings suggested that each was effective for different reasons. It appeared that emotional expression could be encouraged by the interviewer's response to emotional cues, by a reflective style with little factual cross-questioning, by the use of direct requests for self-disclosures, by the optimal (but not necessarily maximal) use of interpretations and expressions of sympathy, and by direct requests for feelings.

Performance Improvement of SVPWM-Based Three-Phase Grid-Connected Inverters

2013 ◽  
Vol 732-733 ◽  
pp. 1261-1264
Author(s):  
Zhi Lei Yao ◽  
Lan Xiao ◽  
Jing Xu
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Response ◽  
Control Strategy ◽  
Pulse Width Modulation ◽  
Control Method ◽  
Grid Current ◽  
Current Controller ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Reference Grid ◽  
Grid Connected Inverter

An improved control strategy for three-phase grid-connected inverters with space vector pulse width modulation (SVPWM) is proposed. When the grid current contains harmonics, the d-and q-axes grid currents is interacted in the traditional control method, and the waveform quality of the grid current is poor. As the reference output voltage cannot directly reflect the change of the reference grid current with the traditional control strategy, the dynamic response of the grid-connected inverter is slow. In order to solve the aforementioned problems, the d-and q-axes grid currents in the decoupled components of the grid current controller are substituted by the d-and q-axes reference grid currents, respectively. The operating principles of the traditional and proposed control methods are illustrated. Experimental results show that the grid-connected inverter with the improved control strategy has high waveform quality of the grid current and fast dynamic response.

scholarly journals A preliminary psychometric evaluation of Music in Dementia Assessment Scales (MiDAS)

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 1011-1019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orii McDermott ◽  
Vasiliki Orgeta ◽  
Hanne Mette Ridder ◽  
Martin Orrell
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Sample Size ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Care Home ◽  
Psychometric Evaluation ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Rater Reliability ◽  
Assessment Scales

ABSTRACTBackground:Music in Dementia Assessment Scales (MiDAS), an observational outcome measure for music therapy with people with moderate to severe dementia, was developed from qualitative data of focus groups and interviews. Expert and peer consultations were conducted at each stage of the scale development to maximize its content validity. This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of MiDAS.Methods:Care home residents with dementia attended weekly group music therapy for up to ten sessions. Music therapists and care home staff were requested to complete weekly MiDAS ratings. The Quality of Life Scale (QoL-AD) was completed at three time-points.Results:A total of 629 (staff = 306, therapist = 323) MiDAS forms were completed. The statistical analysis revealed that MiDAS has high therapist inter-rater reliability, low staff inter-rater reliability, adequate staff test-retest reliability, adequate concurrent validity, and good construct validity. High factor loadings between the five MiDAS Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) items, levels of Interest, Response, Initiation, Involvement, and Enjoyment, were found.Conclusions:This study indicates that MiDAS has good psychometric properties despite the small sample size. Future research with a larger sample size could provide a more in-depth psychometric evaluation, including further exploration of the underlying factors. MiDAS provides a measure of engagement with musical experience and offers insight into who is likely to benefit on other outcomes such as quality of life or reduction in psychiatric symptoms.

Regulator Circuit Transformer Voltage-Second Product Analysis

2014 ◽  
Vol 529 ◽  
pp. 501-505
Author(s):  
Chi Zhang ◽  
Ming Zhi He
Keyword(s):  
Power Supply ◽  
Power Electronic ◽  
Product Analysis ◽  
Power Regulator ◽  
Current Voltage ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Power Electronic Technology ◽  
Primary Current

With the continuous development of power electronic technology, the advantages of thyristor power regulator circuit gradually get more and more applications. It improves the quality of power supply, makes the equipment efficiency and power factor higher and so saves a lot of electricity. Through the calculation of the primary current when thyristor turns off in three-phase power regulator circuit with transformer load, the impact of the thyristors turn-off order on the transformer primary current voltage-second product is analysised, and through simulation the exactness is verified.

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