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CBT Case Formulation as Therapeutic Process

  • Conceptualizes shared case formulation as the core and distinguishing intervention of the main forms of cognitive behavioral therapies (CBTs)

  • Presents the historical background of the main forms of CBTs to show how shared case formulation emerged as their unifying and distinguishing feature

  • Describes practical strategies for therapists to familiarize themselves with the main forms of CBTs

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Shared Case Formulation as the Main Therapeutic Process in Cognitive Therapies

    • Giovanni Maria Ruggiero, Gabriele Caselli, Sandra Sassaroli
    Pages 1-15
  3. Case Formulation in Standard Cognitive Therapy

    • Giovanni Maria Ruggiero, Gabriele Caselli, Sandra Sassaroli
    Pages 17-33
  4. Case Formulation in the Behavioral Tradition: Meyer, Turkat, Lane, Bruch, and Sturmey

    • Giovanni Maria Ruggiero, Gabriele Caselli, Sandra Sassaroli
    Pages 59-72
  5. Case Formulation in Process-Based Therapies

    • Giovanni Maria Ruggiero, Gabriele Caselli, Andrea Bassanini, Sandra Sassaroli
    Pages 107-121
  6. Strengths and Limitations of Case Formulation in Constructivist Cognitive Behavioral Therapies

    • Giovanni Maria Ruggiero, Gabriele Caselli, Sandra Sassaroli
    Pages 143-161

About this book

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.

Keywords

  • cognitive-behavioral therapy
  • CBT
  • case formulation
  • shared case formulation
  • historical development of case formulation
  • cognitive self-schemata
  • diverse CBT models
  • behavioral tradition
  • Beck's model of CT
  • non-CBT models
  • psychodynamic models

Editors and Affiliations

  • “Psicoterapia Cognitiva e Ricerca,” Cognitive Psychotherapy School and Research Center, Milan, Italy

    Giovanni Maria Ruggiero

  • Sigmund Freud University, Milan, Italy

    Giovanni Maria Ruggiero, Gabriele Caselli, Sandra Sassaroli

  • Sigmund Freud University, Vienna, Austria

    Giovanni Maria Ruggiero, Gabriele Caselli, Sandra Sassaroli

  • Department of Psychology, London South Bank University, London, UK

    Gabriele Caselli

  • “Studi Cognitivi,” Cognitive Psychotherapy School and Research Center, Milan, Italy

    Sandra Sassaroli

About the editors

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: CBT Case Formulation as Therapeutic Process

  • Editors: Giovanni Maria Ruggiero, Gabriele Caselli, Sandra Sassaroli

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63587-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63586-2Published: 10 April 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63589-3Published: 10 April 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-63587-9Published: 09 April 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 311

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Psychotherapy and Counseling, Counselling and Interpersonal Skills

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eBook USD 49.99
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Softcover Book USD 64.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 99.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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