A entrevista inicial: potencializadora do estudo sobre clínica fonoaudiológica

Abstract

The essay focuses on some commentents on the role played by the speech terapist, starting from the worry about the initial appointment, here represented by the importance of discussing the effectiveness of first interview as a clinical procedure directly linked to the assessment and speech therapy process. Based on what occurs in this development of the assessment process and the use of na initial interview made by the speech therapist, we especially aimed at understanding what concepts of human nature, health and disease in the course of clinical practive heve been guiding the performance of speech therapyists. Afther that step has taken, and based on the literature published in the area of speech therapy, it was evidenced that the initial interview conducted at the speech terapy clinic is bound to undergo changes both in its goal and its structure. Some turn out to be more direct and its goal is to recover the history of the disease, whereas others shows a less direct structure with a view to considering equally important the person s life history the disease and the meaning of that moment to the patient. The different ways of using the technical instrument, here represented by the initial interview, denote the influence that speech therapy has received from the concepts of human nature, health and disease both from medical clinic and the psychology clinic, from which the speech terapist s clinical action has shown most affinites