How do our patients come to be the way they are? What forces shape their conscious and unconscious thoughts and feelings? How can we use this information to best help them? Constructing Psychodynamic formulations is one of the best ways for mental health professionals to answer questions like these.
Dr Cabaniss is the lead author of Ps.
She has won several teaching awards, including the Edith Sabshin award from the American Psychoanalytic Association. is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Director of Psychotherapy Training in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia.
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Cabaniss, M.
About the Author: Deborah L.
It can stand alone or be used as a companion volume to the Clinical Manual.
It is reader friendly, full of useful examples, eminently practical, suitable for either classroom or individual use, and applicable for all mental health professionals.
Psychodynamic Formulation is written in the same clear, concise style of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Clinical Manual (Wiley 2011).
The unique, up-to-date perspective of this book integrates Psychodynamic theories with ideas about the role of genetics, trauma, and early cognitive and emotional difficulties on development to help clinicians develop effective formulations.
This book offers students and practitioners from all fields of mental health a clear, practical, operationalized method for constructing Psychodynamic formulations, with an emphasis on the following steps: DESCRIBING problems and patterns REVIEWING the developmental history LINKING problems and patterns to history using organizing ideas about development.
Despite the centrality of Psychodynamic Formulation to our work with patients, few students are taught how to construct them in a clear systematic way.
It can help clinicians in all mental health setting understand their patients, set treatment goals, choose therapeutic strategies, construct meaningful interventions and conduct treatment.
How do our patients come to be the way they are? What forces shape their conscious and unconscious thoughts and feelings? How can we use this information to best help them? Constructing Psychodynamic formulations is one of the best ways for mental health professionals to answer questions like these
