This concise and engaging primer? helps beginning therapists systematically organize their thoughts and ideas about a client, using an evidence-based approach to case formulation. Formulating cases is an essential component of psychotherapy training and practice. Yet beginning therapists often struggle to organize their ideas about the client and apply theory to the case. Thisbookis based on the author’s extensive experience teaching case formulation to graduate students. It describes a highly adaptable and evidence-based framework for conceptualizing clients and planning treatment. Applicable to both simple and complex cases, the model can be used regardless of one’s theoretical orientation. Readers are introduced to basic concepts that include the benefits of case formulation, sound decision-making, and the importance of cultural considerations, and then are led step-by-step through the action-oriented components of the model.
This book
Table of Contents Series Preface
How to Use This Book With APA Psychotherapy Videos
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Understanding Psychotherapy Case Formulation in Context
- Defining Formulation: Benefits, Goals, History, and Influences
- Sound Decision Making in Case Formulation
- Developing a Culturally Responsive Formulation
- Formulation in the Context of Psychotherapy Integration
Part II. An Integrative Evidence-Based Case Formulation Model
- Step 1: Create a Problem List
- Step 2: Diagnose
- Step 3: Develop an Explanatory Hypothesis
- Step 4: Plan Treatment
- Evaluating Case Formulation Quality
Coda
References
Index
About the Author
About the Series Editors
