The Positive Assessment: A Model for Integrating Well-Being and Strengths-Based Approaches into the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinical Evaluation.

In traditional medical practice, the diagnostic interview is focused on symptom collection, diagnosis, and treatment. The psychiatric interview is based on the medical model, but mental health clinicians lack the tests found in general medicine. Rapport is the most essential tool for the psychiatrist to uncover symptoms and develop a diagnosis and treatment plan. This article brings a scientific lens to the psychiatric interview. Under this microscope the value of eliciting the patient's well-being at the outset of the interview becomes clear. Using positive psychology, an evidenced-based rationale for the positive assessment is outlined and methodology and practice of the assessment reviewed. Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

8 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Place: United States Schlechter, Alan Daniel. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Outpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU Langone Health, Bellevue Hospital, Hassenfeld Children's Hospital at NYU Langone, Child Study Center, 462 First Avenue, Room A244, New York, NY 10016, USA. Electronic address: alan.schlechter@nyumc.org. O'Brien, Kyle H. Department of Social Work, Southern Connecticut State University, 101 Farnham Avenue, Office 114, New Haven, CT 06515, USA. Stewart, Colin. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Georgetown University Medical Center, School of Medicine, 2115 Wisconsin Avenue Northwest, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20007, USA.