Formulation in Psychology and Psychotherapy: Making sense of people's problems

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Collaborative case conceptualization: Working effectively with clients in cognitive-behavioral therapy. Person‐specific validation and testing of functional relations in cognitive‐behavioural case formulation: Guidelines and options. Several themes were identified and these relate to decision-making and experience, specific guidelines to aid quality of formulations and a significant lack of understanding of clients' views on the formulation process and its outcome.

Work with the client described in this single case report provided an opportunity to explore the use of formulation as intervention and evaluate ways in which it may or may not prove helpful by interviewing the client directly about her experience of the process. To save this article to your Google Drive account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. Johnstone and Dallos' text, now in its second edition, has become a cornerstone of British clinical psychologist's thinking and training.Comparative accounts of the psychotherapies can provide brief portraits that don't convey what their relative strengths and weaknesses are.

Drawing on psychological theory, it attempts to examine a client or family's problems in terms of how they arose and what may currently be holding these in place. The guidance is intended to be of benefit to clinical psychologists and clinical psychology training courses. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your Dropbox account. Formulation is widely considered a critical component of psychological therapies, and is thought to have a number of benefits both for the therapeutic process and the client directly. Exploring the impact of cognitive behavioural therapy formulation in first episode psychosis: A reflexive thematic analysis.It is fascinating to view the case studies through the lenses of each therapeutic approach, and the divergent ways of working that follow.