Clinical formulation lies at the heart of how mental health professionals understand psychological distress. It is the application of a framework that cohesively integrates scientific knowledge with the symptoms of distress. In essence, it is the creation of order to what is often experienced as disorder.
Key Features
- Explores the integration of atypical information in typical formulation models.
- Highlights variations in the definition, conceptualisation, and practice of formulation.
- Covers topics such as diet and exercise, sleep, spirituality, sexuality, and meaning-making.
- Facilitates the generation of testable hypotheses for therapeutic challenges.
- Aimed at clinical psychologists and psychotherapists in practice and training.
Additional Information
The aim of this book is to bring awareness to the theoretical and practical opportunities for mental health professionals that exist by using atypical information when adapting typical formulation models. Chapters on diet and exercise, sleep, spirituality, sexuality, and meaning-making highlight how approaches to formulation can be extended to provide additional opportunities for intervention for the client and practitioner.
A professional encounter oriented in the manner proposed will generate a type of formulation that will raise interesting and testable hypotheses that can assist in understanding ‘stuck’ points in therapy, difficulties within the therapeutic relationship, low motivation, or inability to engage in particular approaches and will assist in devising person-specific mental health interventions.
