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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... tualization challenges. In Chapter 4 we show how our second principle, incorporation of client strengths, expands the emphasis of case conceptualization to encompass goals of restoring and building client resilience. Chapters x Preface.
... goals of restoring and building client resilience. Chapters 5 through 7 illustrate our third principle, levels of conceptualiza- tion, by following a client, Mark, over the course of therapy as he tackles depression, obsessive ...
... goals: (1) to alleviate cli- ents' distress and (2) to build resilience. There is an emerging consensus that CBT case conceptualization helps achieve these two goals when it fulfills the following 10 functions (see Box 1.1; Butler, 1998 ...
... goals . Even when struggles persist , clients experience mastery when situations unfold in expected ways : " Just as we discussed last week , when my daughter began to whine I found my chest tightening and I felt ashamed . Even though I ...
... goals. 6. Case conceptualization can identify client strengths and suggest ways to help build client resilience. Conceptualization that attends to client strengths and uses a resilience lens to understand how clients respond adaptively ...