Development of a training programme in individual case formulation skills and a scale for assessing its effectiveness.
Behav Cogn Psychother 2024;
52:200-203. [PMID:
37994482 DOI:
10.1017/s1352465823000577]
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Abstract
BACKGROUND
Little is known about the skills involved in clinical formulation. The individual case formulation (ICF) approach, based on functional analysis, employs clinical descriptions that are theory-free and depicts formulations constructed according to a set of basic conventions.
AIMS
We report a test of whether this method could be taught and if the quality of the resulting diagrams could be reliably rated.
METHOD
Participants (n=40) participated in a training course in formulation. A draft rating scale was refined in the course of rating formulation diagrams and basic inter-rater reliability established.
RESULTS
Results of the study support further development of the ICF approach.
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