title: The consultee-attended interview: an approach to liaison psychiatry.
abstract: The consultee-attended (C-A) interview, a format in which the liaison psychiatrist interviews the patient in the consultees' presence, is described. The background, strategy, concepts and methods, obstacles and resistances, and countertransference difficulties of C-A interview are discussed. The C-A interview is an experiential teaching instrument with which to facilitate consultees' "participant-observation," a clinical posture that complements other approaches to the care of sick people.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003325:Coronary Care Units; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000523:psychology; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011570:Psychiatry; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012649:Self Concept; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology