The impact of case formulation meetings for teams

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A systematic review of team formulation in clinical psychology practice: Definition, implementation, and outcomes

“…Two studies (Rowe & Nevin, ; Whitton et al ., ) did not specify what team formulation was and were not included in the synthesis for the review's first question. Definitions were found to be descriptions of implementation (how team formulation should be used) as opposed to offering an understanding of what team formulation meant.…”

“…Table 2 provides descriptive information for the 11 articles included in the review. Five quantitative (Berry, Barrowclough, & Wearden, 2009;Ingham, 2011;Ramsden, Lowton, & Joyes, 2014;Whitton, Small, Lyon, Barker, & Akiboh, 2016), three qualitative (Christofides et al, 2012;Murphy, Osborne, & Smith, 2013;Summers, 2006), and three descriptive (Davenport, 2002;Rowe & Nevin, 2013;Wilcox, 2013) articles were retained. From articles providing information, at least 300 staff (predominantly qualified nursing and support staff), 10 clinical psychologists, and 41 service users were represented.…”

“…This highly collaborative approach explicitly applied psychological theory through protocol‐driven implementation. Evaluation of this practice indicated increased, positive attitudes towards team formulation (Whitton et al ., ) and service users (Berry et al ., , ; Ramsden et al ., ). This finding is consistent with Mattan and Isherwood () where non‐psychology staff valued consultation for enhancing their understanding of service users who were experienced as complex.…”

“…How do psychologists define team formulation? Two studies (Rowe & Nevin, 2013;Whitton et al, 2016) did not specify what team formulation was and were not included in the synthesis for the review's first question.…”

“…Ten articles were included in the synthesis for the review's second question as outlined in Table 5. Whitton et al (2016) did not detail how team formulation was implemented and so was not included. One study considered to be of a low quality provided the least amount of detail of the implementation process (Summers, 2006).…”