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Kieren P.M. Obed Jr.,MD The patient also may be both relieved and reassured that
Davao Medical School Foundation the physician is interested in him or her “as a
person” and may use the opportunity to express
BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL APPROACH worries and emotional and psychological distress.
Currently advocated as the best paradigm of psychiatric
assessment. PSYCHIATRIC INTERVIEWING
This approach suggest that equal emphasis be given to the
evaluation of the psychological, social, and biological The psychiatric interview is an interaction between patient and
factors impacting on the patient’s clinical presentation. physician designed to assess psychiatric status or to
VALUES OF A DIAGNOSIS provide treatment of an emotional or behavioral problem.