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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... explanatory power as treatment progresses. Client strengths are identified and harnessed throughout the process of conceptualization to help create effective and lasting improvement. We describe how therapist and client can truly ...
... explanatory conceptualizations of what triggers and maintains his presenting issues (Chapter 6), to a longitudinal account of what predisposed him to this particular set of presenting issues and what strengths protected him from worse ...
... explanatory case conceptualization that struck me as more accurate than my own understanding of a person I had been treating for several months. Tim's conceptualization skills were so superior to my own that I thought, “He seems to ...
... Explanatory Conceptualizations Chapter 7 “Does My Future Look Like My Past?”: 217 Longitudinal Explanatory Conceptualizations Chapter 8 Learning and Teaching Case Conceptualization 248 Chapter 9 Appraising the Model 306 Appendix Aid to ...
... explanatory models (e.g., a theory-based understanding of how his posttraumatic stress symptoms are maintained), and, if necessary, develops further to include a historical explanation of how predisposing and protective factors played a ...