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The clinician evaluates the interview process itself, especially during the opening phase of the interview. She scans for the possibility of a shut-down or wandering interview. We examined an example of shut-down communication in Chap. 1. This chapter focuses on the other extreme, the wandering interview.
In the end, doctor and patient have the joint task of constructing a story of the illness on which they both can agree. This is not likely to happen if we don’t hear the patient’s version first
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Binder, J. (2010). Wandering Interviews. In: Pediatric Interviewing. Current Clinical Practice. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-256-8_11
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