This clinical interviewing primer blends a personal and easy-to-read style with an emphasis on both the scientific foundations and interpersonal aspects of mental health interviewing. Written from an integrative/eclectic perspective, this second edition incorporates modifications made necessary by the rise of managed care and revised thinking in the field relating to DSM-IV. Providing provocative examples and case anecdotes, it contains new chapters on suicide assessment interviewing, interviewing teens, couples, and families, and multicultural interviewing, as well as stress management techniques for the interviewer.