Collaborative Case Conceptualization: Working Effectively with Clients in Cognitive-Behavioral TherapyPresenting an innovative framework for tailoring cognitive-behavioral interventions to each client's needs, this accessible book is packed with practical pointers and sample dialogues. Step by step, the authors show how to collaborate with clients to develop and test conceptualizations that illuminate personal strengths as well as problems, and that deepen in explanatory power as treatment progresses. An extended case illustration demonstrates the three-stage conceptualization process over the entire course of therapy with a multiproblem client. The approach emphasizes building resilience and coping while decreasing psychological distress. Special features include self-assessment checklists and learning exercises to help therapists build their conceptualization skills. |
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... example, the most pressing issues for Steve at the beginning of therapy were his fear of revictimization and terrifying daily flashbacks to the violence he had experienced. In the early stages of conceptualization it became clear that ...
... example, someone who is depressed, has stopped working, and no longer answers the phone or door has greatly diminished opportunities for mastery or pleasure. For such a person, behavioral activation reintroduces reinforcing ...
... example of a mode in action is when a person instantaneously orients and selectively attends to threat, bringing on line finely attuned cognitive processes (e.g., where, who, what, how bad), emotional reactions (e.g., fear) ...
... example, in a primal threat mode, the strategy may be fight or flight. In a more differentiated paranoid mode, the behavioral reaction may be withdrawal and hypervigilance. Strategies can be both cognitive and behavioral, and their ...
... example above, Suzette's automatic thought when her colleague said, “You are just like everyone else in this company” was “I'm not special,” with an associated image of herself disappearing into a crowd. Since the publication of the ...