Individual Case Formulation

Richard S Hallam is Visiting Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Greenwich, London. His career has combined teaching, research and professional practice in clinical psychology. Books he has had published include Counselling for Anxiety Problems (1992) and Virtual Selves, Real Persons (2009).

• 1. Formulation—the Main Issues2. Conceptual Frameworks for Case Formulation 3. Evidence-Based Practice: Diagnostic and Transdiagnostic Approaches4. Theory and Evidence in Individual Case Formulation5. The Process of Reasoning in Individual Case Formulation6. Narrative and Textual Analysis in Formulation7. Formulation Skills and the Therapeutic Relationship8. A Functional/Systemic Framework for Case Formulation9. Future Prospects for Individual Case FormulationGuidelines for Assessment and Constructing an Individual Case Formulation (ICF)

"Hallam…advocates for good individual case formulation (ICF) as a key element of therapeutic success, and views case formulation as drawing upon expert methodological knowledge as well as craft skills of an interpersonal nature. After reviewing conceptual frameworks for case formulation, the author introduces reasoning processes for ensuring ICF is not purely subjective and conventions for producing a functional case formulation diagram." --Reference and Research Book News, December 2013"…this thought provoking book provides a timely review of both conceptual bases of ICF and an examination of current assumptions underlying ICF in the light of modern pressures to put people’s psychological problems and complexities in to over simple categories, such as medical diagnoses… This is a book that should be a major reference text in all clinical and counselling psychology courses…" --Clinical Psychologist, August 2013"Richard Hallam, in a significant contribution to the understanding of this topic, presents us with both a scholarly and reflective review about the nature of Individual Case Formulation (ICF) in contemporary psychotherapy, and, also with a practical guide (well illustrated with case material) about how it may be further developed....this thought provoking book provides a timely review of both conceptual bases of ICF and an examination of current assumptions underlying ICF in the light of modern pressures to put people’s psychological problems and complexities in to over simple categories, such as medical diagnoses. This is a book that should be a major reference text in all clinical and counselling psychology courses but, it is also a thought provoking volume to read for the established practitioner (or clinician)." --David J. de L. Horne, Clinical Psychologist