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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... session Steve disclosed that neigh- bors had seen him the previous year in his home dressed in women's clothing . Word quickly spread through the neighborhood that Steve was a cross - dresser . With this revelation , a group of youths ...
... sessions. 9. Case conceptualization helps us to understand nonresponse to therapy and suggests alternative routes to change. CBT outcome research studies report that a significant proportion of cases respond either partially or not at ...
... session in which the case conceptualization had been shared with the client. However, clients did not rate the alliance as being improved. There are some exceptions to this general trend of findings (Ghaderi, 2006; Schneider & Byrne ...
... sessions as part of supervision or consultation we often notice: • Therapists conceptualizing unilaterally, not collaboratively. The content of CBT sessions seems unrelated to the case concep- • tualization. The therapist assumes he or ...
... sessions, the client's presenting issues are described in cognitive and behavioral terms drawing on relevant CBT theory and research. These first conceptualizations connect individual client expe- riences with the descriptive language ...