Constructing Stories, Telling Tales

Sarah Corrie is a chartered psychologist and consultant clinical psychologist. She has extensive experience in both public and private sector services, and runs her own practice as well as working as a freelance writer, trainer, and lecturer. She is Programme Director of the Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy offered by Royal Holloway University of London and Central and North West London Foundation Trust. David A. Lane is a chartered psychologist and Director of the Professional Development Foundation. He contributes to leading edge research in coaching as well as supervising leading coaches undertaking doctoral research. He was Chair of the British Psychological Society Register of Psychologists Specialising in Psychotherapy and convenor of the Psychotherapy Group of the European Federation of Psychologists' Associations.

• Prologue -- Introduction -- Unique -- Formulation: An Introduction to Key Debates and a Framework for Developing a Systematic Approach -- Case formulation and its role in professional practice -- A framework for formulation: purpose, perspective, and process -- Working with Purpose, Perspective, and Process: Elaborating the Framework to Enhance Your Approach -- Defining the purpose of the enquiry -- Identifying the perspective that informs the journey -- Devising a process that is fit for purpose -- The Many Facets of Formulation: An Interdisciplinary Perspective -- Introducing our guest contributors -- Case formulation: the dilemmas posed by child sex offenders -- Every child does matter: preventing school exclusion through the Common Assessment Framework -- The role of formulation in cognitive-behaviour therapy: a concept hidden in plain view? -- Existential formulations of therapeutic practice -- What story are you in? Four elements of a narrative approach to formulation in coaching -- Fabricating fictions, telling tales -- Acting as narrative -- Understanding character: an actor’s approach to formulation -- Implications for the Future -- Creating stories for complex times -- Conclusion -- Epilogue

A number of guest contributors - including actors Simon Callow, Prunella Scales and Timothy West - have contributed valuable input into this volume and demonstrated great interest in the project and the ideas behind it. For some, it was their first experience of working with psychologists, and they showed particular willingness to engage with the main authors on this joint venture.PART ONE: Formulation: An Introduction to Key Debates and a Framework for Developing a Systematic ApproachPART TWO: Working with Purpose, Perspective and Process: Elaborating the Framework to Enhance your ApproachPART THREE: The Many Facets of Formulation: An Interdisciplinary PerspectivePART FOUR: Implications for the FutureLIST OF EXERCISESExercise 1. Questions to start your journeyExercise 2. Questions to help you navigate the debates on formulationExercise 3. Applying the purpose, perspective, and process model to your own practiceExercise 4. Understanding your professional purpose in the light of local, national, and global levels of influenceExercise 5. Understanding the perspective that informs your approachExercise 6. Developing a process through use of story grammarExercise 7. Creating stories for complex timesExercise 8. A reflective tool for refining your formulation skills