Testing Case Formulation Hypotheses in Psychotherapy: Two Case Examples

Cognitive and Behavioral Practice

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 399-409

  Persons, Jacqueline B ^a   Beckner, Victoria Lemle ^b   Tompkins, Michael A ^a  

^a San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy   (United States)

^b San Francisco Group for Evidence Based Psychotherapy   (United States)

Author keywords

Case examples; Case formulation; Collaborative empiricism; Progress monitoring

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CASE FORMULATION DRIVEN APPROACH; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COOPERATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMOTION; FAMILY CONFLICT; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; JEALOUSY; MOTIVATION; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT WORRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOEDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PSYCHIATRIC PROCEDURES; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

EID: 84885172922     PISSN: 10777229     EISSN: 1878187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpra.2013.03.004     Document Type: Article

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