SCIP Instruction Manual 2016
Instruction Manual
The SCIP Instruction Manual is 36 pages long and can be downloaded for free.
The SCIP manual contains the following information:
- The conceptual development of the SCIP and the unique advantages of the SCIP.
- Description of the SCIP Approach to Psychiatric Diagnosis: “Bottom First Then Top (BFTT)” Approach.
- The three components of the SCIP method of psychiatric assessment: the SCIP interview, the etiological search and the disorder classification search.
- The three phases of the SCIP psychiatric interview.
- How to rate the SCIP items (symptoms and signs).
- The SCIP principles of creating reliable psychological dimensions.
- Symptom distress and functional impairment evaluations.
- How to reach psychiatric diagnoses.