This book reasserts the importance of case formulation as the first step in implementing effective cognitive behavioral therapies (CBT), centering it as the main operative tool of CBT approaches by which the therapist handles the whole psychotherapeutic process. Chapters discuss specific CBT interventions and components of the treatment, aspecific factors including therapeutic alliance and relationship, and theoretical and historical background of CBT practices.
In addition, the book assumes that in CBTs the case formulation is a procedure which is continuously shared and reevaluated between patient and therapist throughout the course of treatment. This aspect is increasingly becoming the distinguishing feature of CBT approaches as it embodies CBT's basic tenets and implies full confidence in patients’ conscious agreement, transparent cooperation and explicit commitment with CBT’s model of clinical change.
Part 1: Sharing case formulation: Theoretical and historical
background.
Chapter 1: Historical background: From biased self-contents to
shared case formulation as distinguishing feature of CBT.
Chapter 2: CBT
therapies handle alliance and therapeutic relationship by sharing case
formulation.- Part 2: Sharing case formulation in diverse CBT models.-
Chapter 3: Sharing case formulation in the behavioral tradition.
Chapter 4:
The growing emphasis on case formulation in Becks CT diagram.
Chapter 5:
Using the CT diagram in managing difficult alliance in personality
disorders.
Chapter 6: How B-C connection and F negotiation allow to design
and implement a cooperative and effective disputing in REBT.
Chapter 7: Case
formulation in Schema Therapy.
Chapter 8: Case formulation in process
therapies.
Chapter 9: Case formulation in MCT.
Chapter 10: Strength and
weaknesses in case formulation skills in constructivist-developmental and
cognitive-relational therapies.
Chapter 11: LIBET:combining developmental
and process elements in case formulation.- Part 3: Case formulation in
non-CBT models.
Chapter 12: Case formulation as emotive compensation in
relational models.
Chapter 13: Case formulation is not shared in
psychodynamic models.
Giovanni Maria Ruggiero is a practicing private psychotherapist who studied medicine and surgery at the University of Pavia in 1992 and specialized in Psychiatry at the University of Milan in 1998 and in cognitive psychotherapy at the School of cognitive and cognitive therapy behavioral "Cognitive Studies" of Milan in 2001. He is the director of studies at the Post-Degree Cognitive Psychotherapy School Psicoterapia Cognitiva e Ricerca in Italy, and lectures at the Post-Degree Cognitive Psychotherapy School Studi Cognitivi and at Sigmund Freud University in Vienna and Milan.
