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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. This concise and engaging book is 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.The volume is an indispensable aid for novice and experienced therapists seeking to develop and improve upon this core competency.
List 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
About the author
Tracy D. Eells, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, a professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and vice provost for faculty affairs at the University of Louisville. He maintains an individual psychotherapy practice, working with adults presenting with a wide variety of relationship, mood, anxiety and life problems. He regularly supervises clinical psychology graduate students and psychiatry residents. Psychological assessment is also a major part of his practice. In addition to publishing many journal articles and book chapters, he is the editor of the
Handbook of Psychotherapy Case Formulation, now in its second edition.
Summary
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. This concise and engaging book describes a highly-adaptable and evidence-based framework for conceptualizing clients and planning treatment.
