The most important thing in the initial interview is to make a rapport with a patient and to understand.
As a therapist makes a rapport with a patient, he can start to understand his patient.
In this sense the establishment of the good relationship between a therapist and a patient is the most fundamental factor.
The therapist´s attitude toward his patient that he only exists for the help of his patient must be conveyed to the patient to make a rapport with a patient.
To understand a patient such things as following has to be examined thoroughly why and how he comes to visit a therapist, what his chief complaint and his particular situation of the outbreak of a mental illness, what his childhood emotional pattern and nuclear emotion are, what his healthy strengths and their sources are.
To have a successful initial interview we need considerable experience of the clinical practice and the general understanding of the mankind.
So we try to understand ourselves and others in our everyday lives.
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