Case Formulation: A Review and Overview of this Volume

Sturmey, Peter

doi:10.1002/9780470747513.ch1

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“…Formulation is taught as a core competency to some mental health professionals in Britain and many other countries, including America (Sturmey, ). It provides a framework for conceptualising the developmental, triggering and maintaining factors of problems and a foundation for planning treatment.…”

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An evaluation of case formulation training and consultation with probation officers

Minoudis

Craissati²,

Shaw³

et al. 2013

Criminal Behav Ment Health

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The capacity for teaching formulation to probation officers could be investigated further by comparing the process with formulation development by mental health experts with previously extensive formulation experience. Formulation will probably need to be adapted to meet the needs of the context in which it is developed. The relationship between formulation and management outcome was not investigated here and would be a further important step.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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An evaluation of case formulation training and consultation with probation officers

Minoudis

Craissati²,

Shaw³

et al. 2013

Criminal Behav Ment Health

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“…As mentioned in the first article of this series, the problems underlying case mis‐conceptualization are not resultant from a dearth of literature on the topic but disagreements on the nature of the clinical activity (Ridley & Jeffrey, ). One of the foremost problems is the lack of consensus on the definition and fundamental components of case conceptualization (Bieling & Kuyken, ; British Psychological Society Division of Clinical Psychology, ; Eells, Kendjelic, & Lucas, ; Flitcroft, James, Freeston, & Wood‐Mitchell, ; Johnstone, ; Strumey, ). As Sim, Gwee, and Bateman () framed the problem: “There is no agreed definition of case formulation by practitioners of a specific model of therapy or between practitioners of different models, and the formulation generally follows the theoretical approach and attempts to integrate different perspectives” (p. 290).…”

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“…Generic models use theory as a stepping‐stone to the development of an internalized, idiosyncratic model of case conceptualization. Hybrid models attempt to combine the strengths of both theory‐specific and generic models (Berman, ; Clark, ; Ellis et al., ; Murdock, ; Schwitzer, ; Sturmey, ).…”

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“…Once client data is gathered, these models allow clinicians to select a theory of personal choice for synthesis and interpretation. The literature contains many generic or individual models of case conceptualization, which are “scattered throughout clinical journals” (Sturmey, , p. 13). Murdock () advances the idea that gathering nontheory‐specific information about clients is necessary in the formulation process, but she emphasizes that the final case formulation should fit with both the theory of choice and the nontheory specific data.…”

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Case Mis‐Conceptualization in Psychological Treatment: An Enduring Clinical Problem

2017

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Case conceptualization, an integral component of mental health treatment, aims to facilitate therapeutic gains by formulating a clear picture of a client's psychological presentation. However, despite numerous attempts to improve this clinical activity, it remains unclear how well existing methods achieve their purported purpose. Case formulation is inconsistently defined in the literature and implemented in practice, with many methods varying in complexity, theoretical grounding, and empirical support. In addition, many of the methods demand a precise clinical acumen that is easily influenced by judgmental and inferential errors. These errors occur regardless of clinicians' level of training or amount of clinical experience. Overall, the lack of a consensus definition, a diversity of methods, and susceptibility of clinicians to errors are manifestations of the state of crisis in case conceptualization. This article, the 2nd in a series of 5 on thematic mapping, argues the need for more reliable and valid models of case conceptualization.

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“…Indeed, thematic mapping is far from the first method of case formulation to be proposed. Sturmey () provides a thorough contrast of a variety of existing approaches to case conceptualization. This section reviews theory‐specific, generic, and hybrid models of case formulation introduced in Case Mis‐Conceptualization in Psychological Treatment: An Enduring Clinical Problem and outlines the fundamental aspects of four alternative formulation methods for specific comparison to thematic mapping (Ridley et al., ).…”

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The Process of Thematic Mapping in Case Conceptualization

2017

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This article, the 4th in a series of 5, introduces the 3-stage process of thematic mapping: theme identification, theme interpretation, and theme intervention. Theme identification is based on inductive reasoning, in which clinicians seek to discover and describe behavioral patterns in emotionally charged episodes. Theme interpretation subsequently initiates a process of deductive reasoning, wherein clinicians distill the generalized pattern into dominant and subthemes. Each theme is then labeled with a compelling metaphor that is representative of the theme interpretation. In the 3rd stage, theme intervention, clinicians seek to change the dysfunctional dominant and subthemes through collaboration with the clients. The process unfolds within 5 overarching parameters: a focus on comprehensiveness, simplification, maximal objectivity/impartial subjectivity, observation and inference, and an idiographic approach. Alternative models of case formulation are offered in comparison to thematic mapping.

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Case Formulation: A Review and Overview of this Volume

Cited by 12 publications

References 37 publications

An evaluation of case formulation training and consultation with probation officers

An evaluation of case formulation training and consultation with probation officers

Case Mis‐Conceptualization in Psychological Treatment: An Enduring Clinical Problem

The Process of Thematic Mapping in Case Conceptualization

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