Learning Objective: The goal is to provide students with an understanding of interviewing that is often used by many contemporary clinical psychologists.

The Big Picture: Clinical psychologists provide a unique and extremely challenging and useful skill in the form of psychological testing. Interviews, behavioral observations, checklists and inventories, and physiological measures provide important information which can be used in conjunction with other tests to make diagnostic conclusions and intervention decisions. Always, these tests need to be contextualized given the unique constellation of biopsychosocial factors affecting individual's and their test results.

I. Goals, and Types of Assessment

B. Continuous evaluation

D. Theoretical framework

C. Treatment plan

II. Interviewing