Interview guide Introduction

This interview takes place between a psychologist and a client seeking assistance for his continuous headaches and sleeping challenges. It is good to note that sleeping deficiency affects someone not only at night but also during the day; hence, useful to converse with a client on sleep patterns at night and the resulting impact of insufficient sleep during the day. One of the efficient ways through which one can acquire knowledge about sleep deficiency is walking the client through his or her daily experiences. The sole purpose of this interview guide is to gather information, which will in turn help in solving the sleeping challenge and find a sustainable solution that would see the client live a fulfilled life with ease. More so, the information gathered will assist in raising awareness on the issues pertaining headaches and sleep deficiency.

Purpose of the interview

 The purpose of the interview centers on collecting information on sleep deficiency and headaches, formulate an effective treatment plan for the client and walk him or her through various home remedies and lifestyle changes that will help him or her live a better life.

Structure of the interview

When formulating interview question there are three general elements one needs to consider: inquiring on evidence that will aid in the examination of the predicament closer than before, know the manner in which information will assist the psychologist deal with the predicament and later inform or guide in making decision based on the data gathered (Johns, & Gorrick, 2016). On the other hand, an interview should refrain from asking irrelevant question that will not directly shed more light on the situation. In this particular context, the interview takes the form of an in-depth formatted question in need of solid answers, for example, what is your early morning  routine? These types of questions tend to reveal the veil behind the problem and cover vast areas, which helps in finding a solution for the client.

 In addition the interview will contain questions related to sleep deficiency and will require keen answers (Johns, & Gorrick, 2016). Hence, the objectives of the interview will come to fruition with the quality and accurate answers alone. Therefore, the interview structure relies on how well the person corporates with the interviewer.  At the beginning of the interview, the questions focus on disclosing personal information about the client. For example, what is your age? Sex, family background and other pertinent but personal question within the grasp of interviewer. The background questions try to find out or are designed to confirm the origin of the problem. For example, does any of your family member experience sleeping challenges?

 Language of the interview

Communication plays a crucial role during an interview, which facilitates coordination among people involved in the interview and ensures flow of accurate information from the client to the psychiatrist defining treatment plans and new development during diagnosis. More so, in any interview setting, interviewers depend on the information given to formulate their course of action (Stoker et.al, 2016). Furthermore, the nature of an interview and its underlying reasons normally assessed through effective questioning and ability to form reasonable opinions that later assist in attaining the objectives of the interview, in this case diagnostic information. In summary, interviews critically investigate the negative life routines on the daily lives of the people and management of personal activities and mechanisms that may later lead to an imbalance and cause sleep deficiency. In addition, the interview structure helps look into communication tactics required to make a client open up more about their situation.

In order to convey facts and a solid treatment plan, it is compulsory for the interviewer to frequently access personal details at all times and confirm with the client. Partners and other people of interest may need information about progress of the situation after the interview and it is up to the psychologist to unveil the information from a neutral perspective (Stoker et.al, 2016). Examples of information a psychologist must have are underlying reasons for the sleep deficiency, conditions that causes headaches, client’s personal needs, and construct a timeline pattern for the sleep condition. Therefore, based on past researches, interviews help the both parties adhere to objectives mitigate misunderstanding or misinformation and interruptions, which may lead to failure of the project. From my standpoint, a team managing a project may comprise of people from various backgrounds hence communication streamlines processes, actionable causes and levels every team players’ understanding so that no one remains behind schedule.

 How to obtain headache and sleep deficiency symptoms

The flow of the interview, reaction of the client to each question will unveil if the client has the right question (Stoker et.al, 2016). Furthermore, flexibility while questioning the client builds up concepts and understandings on the dynamic changes that sleep deficiencies causes on their bodies. Consequently, the information help the psychologist identify the right symptoms as stated by the client.

Communication Management and Ensuring the client participate fully in the interview

In respect to interactions during an interview, a client can speak more if the psychologist allows it (Kohansieh, & Makaryus, 2015). On the other hand, information should be consistent and builds up to a strategic plan within falling along the lines of sleep deficiency and headaches. In the end, it boils down to socialization and integration between the psychologist and the client that will make the interview move forward without any query. Each person should share their opinion and prevent dominance from either men or women.

Based on past journal and resonating during any interview, communication is the only means through which psychologists can support a client mission and vision (Kohansieh, & Makaryus, 2015). It is good to note that visionary pertains questioning style and elements of the strategy and effective communication. More so, clients must be collaborative and willing to find a solution to their problems.

 Management of the interview

Communication management builds up concepts and later converts information into duties and defined works (Kohansieh, & Makaryus, 2015). Consequently, the information is no longer something abstract but an element utilizable throughout the interview. In other words, communication management transfer knowledge and demonstrates the mannerism of alleviating sleep deficiency problems into achievable tasks.

There are various communication styles. The first is assertive where one exerts total control over others but not in a dictatorial manner. The guy may try to inspire others to some extent. This type of interview style can succeed in closed environments that need output only and where the roles are repetitive (Ghobadi, & Mathiassen, 2016). The only advantage of assertive is that it gives out good results. However, it does not inspire loyalty, openness, and creativity sustainably. The second style is active and manipulative where psychologist needs charisma and an effective approach to give out results. Most used in easy surroundings. This style is a hands-on style that encourages the spirit of teamwork and needs dedicated people to carry out the duties.

Stimulating the client to think freely during the interview

The capability to think or integrate thoughts makes the team to suppress unnecessary divergent thoughts and move as one force to achieve one goal and beat the time limit. This can only occur due to intentional desire to achieve the main goal (Ghobadi, & Mathiassen, 2016).Communication management boils down to relationships and attitude of group members among themselves. The relationships and reaction toward roles and duty affect behavior, which in turn metamorphoses into the group results. Relationship between client and psychologist affects work culture. Efficient communication forms good relationship shapes work ethic and input within a group. Therefore, effectiveness within a group and output is molded by the behavior, reaction, and attitudes of the client.

In summary High, stake conversations such as interviews need a positive attitude and a courageous heart to tackle the issue at hand rather than brush over the situation with sugarcoated words. During interview conversations, an experienced communicator considers his or her objectives especially when the situation spirals out of hand. Simply put objectives of a crucial conversation consequently lead to better outcomes for the project and conclusive decision-making while building teams, which pushes the objectives of the project forward. The scope of an interview that would define and give direction to the entire objective had to do with generating information from the client that later corresponds to headache and sleep deficiency. Tailoring the needs according to what they disclosed and not speculation would cater for any future challenges that arose.

  

References

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Kohansieh, M., & Makaryus, A. N. (2015). Sleep deficiency and deprivation leading to cardiovascular disease. International journal of hypertension, 2015.

Stoker, M., Lindsay, P., Butt, J., Bawden, M., & Maynard, I. (2016). Elite coaches' experiences of creating pressure training environments for performance enhancement. International Journal of Sport Pyschology.