CASE FORMULATION AND THERAPY PLANNING in Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies

What is asked of the client in the sessions? How are the sessions scheduled? How to establish the right therapeutic relationship? How to apply effective psychotherapy? How to choose therapy methods? How is permanent improvement achieved in clients? These questions preoccupy the minds of psychotherapists who are new to the profession.
Clinician, scientist and trainer Prof. Dr. In this book, Ebru Şalcıoğlu shares her clinical experience of more than twenty years with therapists who are new to the profession and want to master the modern applications of cognitive and behavioral therapies. The development of thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, and overt behaviors that characterize psychological problems, clinical evaluation in line with theoretical principles, structuring and conducting sessions, establishing therapeutic relationships, developing case formulations with information from evaluation, and research-supported basic cognitive and behavioral therapy used for psychological problems. He conveys the application of his methods to his readers in a simple language.
Case Formulation and Therapy Planning in Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies: The Clinical Behavior Analysis Approach integrates clinical experience with academic knowledge, facilitating psychotherapists' therapeutic practice. It shows the way to work like a scientist and artist who develops a case formulation specific to the client with his theoretical knowledge and uses scientifically supported therapy methods in creative ways, not like a technician who applies the methods he has memorized for certain diagnoses to the therapist. This book, which is adorned with rich case examples suitable for our culture, is a unique resource that clinicians who see clients, clinicians who study, and academics who teach in the fields of clinical psychology, psychiatry, psychological counseling and psychotherapy will come back and benefit for many years.