Main description:

This eagerly awaited book shows how skillful case formulation addresses a critical challenge in psychotherapy today: how to use empirically supported therapies (ESTs) in real-world clinical contexts. The author explains the basic theories of cognition, learning, and emotion that underlie available ESTs and shows how the theories also guide systematic case formulation. By crafting a sound formulation and continually refining and monitoring it as treatment progresses, the therapist can smoothly shift theoretical gears and weave together elements of different ESTs to meet the needs of individual patients, who typically present with multiple problems. Hands-on tools, reproducibles, and many concrete examples are included.

Contents:

1. What Is the Case Formulation Approach to Cognitive-Behavior Therapy?

2. Cognitive Theories and Their Clinical Implications

3. Learning Theories and Their Clinical Implications

4. Emotion Theories and Their Clinical Implications

5. Beginning the Therapeutic Relationship and Obtaining a Problem List and Diagnosis

6. Developing an Initial Case Formulation and Setting Treatment Goals

7. Using the Formulation to Develop a Treatment Plan and Obtain the Patient's Consent to It

8. The Therapeutic Relationship

9. Monitoring Progress

10. Decision Making in the Therapy Session

11. Handling Nonadherence and Treatment Failure

12. Decision Making over the Course of Therapy