Enhancing Clinical Case Formulation

Theoretical and Practical Approaches for Mental Health Practitioners

Buch | Softcover

162 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-59834-8 (ISBN)

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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. The aim of this book is to bring awareness to the theoretical and practical opportunities for mental health professionals that exists by using atypical information when adapting typical formulation models.

Each chapter reflects some variation in how formulation is defined, conceptualised and practiced, by using information that regularly materializes from professional encounters but often is omitted from the formulation of a particular presenting problem. 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 orientated 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. This book will appeal to clinical psychologists and psychotherapists in practice and training.

Patrick Ryan has worked as a clinical psychologist for 23 years. He is the Director of Clinical Psychology and Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Limerick, Ireland. A clinical practitioner, he remains involved in clinical training, research, supervision and mental health consultancy.

Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. Enhancing Formulation

Patrick Ryan and Aoife Kilroe

2. Meaning making in formulation

Patrick Ryan and Eva Usher

3. Integrating neuroscience in formulation

Rory Carolan, Fergal Connolly, and Patrick Ryan

4. Diet and nutrition

Mary Kelly and Patrick Ryan

5. Personality

Patrick Ryan and Eve Pender

6. Sleep

Kristina Cahill, Julie Lynch, and Patrick Ryan

7. Spirituality

Emma Breen, Julie Lynch, and Patrick Ryan

8. Sexuality

Patrick Ryan, Marie Kennedy, and Julie Lynch

9. Physical activity

Dermot McMahon and Patrick Ryan

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.12.2019
Zusatzinfo	4 Tables, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	260 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10	1-138-59834-8 / 1138598348
ISBN-13	978-1-138-59834-8 / 9781138598348
Zustand	Neuware