The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Substance Abuse Treatment Chapter 5. Assessment of the Patient > Eliciting the Substance Abuse History Sections: Setting, Interviewing Style, Patient Characteristics. Topics Discussed: psychiatric interview and evaluation; substance abuse detection; substance withdrawal. Excerpt: "The interview and elicitation of the substance abuse history are essential to making an accurate diagnosis. The setting of the interview, the clinician's style of interviewing, and patient factors can influence the accuracy of the history.Accurate assessment is facilitated by interview settings that provide privacy and patient confidentiality and permit adequate time to ask key questions, follow up on positive patient responses, and give feedback to the patient. It is important to address patients' concerns about confidentiality (Senay 1997). Patients may worry about whether their history will be transmitted to parents, spouses, employers, licensing boards, the courts, or other parties. ..." DOI: 10.1176/appi.books.9781585623440.349209 The content above is only an excerpt. For full access subscribe now or log into your account below. Username: Password:     Athens Login FORGOT your subscriber username and/or password? Get a reminder via email: The email I registered with is:  Not a subscriber? Subscribe Today PsychiatryOnline is a powerful website that features DSM-IV-TR® and The American Journal of Psychiatry as the cornerstones of an unsurpassed collection of psychiatric references, including books, journals, and self-assessment tools. PsychiatryOnline’s innovative platform makes these resources easy and convenient to use, offering Precise and powerful searching across books and journals. Quick pathways to related material. Mobile access from any computer with a Web connection. Ability to download any book section to PDA. Links from bibliographic references to the full text of journal articles. References to material not located in the PsychiatryOnline collection lead you to PubMed. Learn more about PsychiatryOnline Need more help? PsychiatryOnline Customer Service may be reached by emailing PsychiatryOnline@psych.org or by calling 800-368-5777 (in the U.S.) or 703-907-7322 (outside the U.S.).