ASSESSMENT & CASE FORMULATION

Dr Alec Grant is Reader in Narrative Mental Health in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Brighton. He qualified as a mental health nurse in the mid-1970s and went on to study psychology, social science and psychotherapy. He is widely published in the fields of ethnography, autoethnography, narrative inquiry, clinical supervision, cognitive behavioural psychotherapy, and communication and interpersonal skills. His current and developing scholarly interests coalesce broadly in the area of narrative research, and postmodern and poststructural developments in qualitative inquiry, in mental health and other healthcare areas.

`An important contribution to the development of cognitive therapy that synthesizes the best of traditional cognitive therapy with important new developments emerging from a range of different areas. Combining practical accessibility with theoretical sophistication, this book will be invaluable reading for both beginning therapists and experienced clinicians' - Jeremy D. Safran, Ph.D., Professor and Director of Clinical Psychology, New School for Social Research, New York

Introduction
PART ONE: COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL ASSESSMENT AND CASE FORMULATION
Assessment in CBT
The Ideographic Approach
Process and Related Issues in Cognitive-Behavioural Assessment
The Fundamentals of Case Formulation
The Transdiagnostic Turn and Models of Assessment and Case Formulation in Action
PART TWO: CASE STUDIES
'Ian'
A Case Study of Obsessional Compulsive Disorder
'Alice'
A Case Study of Helping a Client Suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder
An Organizationally Focused Case Study of PTSD
Case Formulation
Cognitive-Behavioural Family Therapy
Broadening the Cognitive-Behavioural Formulation for Low Self-Esteem
Helping 'Claire' with Her Broken and Damaged Self
Wade Eppeley and the Liquid Face Masks: A Cognitve-Behavioural Case Formulation for Distressing Psychosis
Health Anxiety
A Case Study
A Case Study and Formulation of Chronic Depression in a Client with High Self-Criticism
PART THREE: CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS