half day workshop

CASE FORMULATION-DRIVEN COGNITIVE-BEHAVIOR THERAPY
Jacqueline Persons, San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy USA

Princess Hotel Room: Estrella de Mar

Case Formulation-driven Cognitive-behavior Therapy  Jacqueline B. Persons, Director, San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy, and Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley.   Clinicians who strive to provide evidence-based care often find themselves struggling to use the empirically-supported treatment protocols (ESTs) with patients who have multiple comorbidities, unique situations, problems for which no EST is available, or problems that interfere with implementing the EST. A case formulation-driven approach to CBT provides a systematic and empirical approach to these difficulties.   Dr. Persons presents the conceptual model underpinning case formulation-driven CBT, and then provides details of applying the model to clinical cases, emphasizing the strategies involved in developing the initial case formulation and treatment plan, and monitoring the outcome and process of treatment. She will illustrate the use of the model with a case of her own, and work through the model with a case or two offered by attendees, who will be asked to obtain their patient’s permission to do so and to submit some information about their cases before the workshop.

Jacqueline B. Persons, Director, San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy, and Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley.    Jacqueline B. Persons is Director of the San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology at University of California, Berkeley. She has authored numerous chapters and articles and a book on cognitive-behavioral case formulation (Cognitive Therapy in Practice: A Case Formulation Approach, published in 1989), which she is currently updating. She is Past President of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (Section 3 of Division 12 of the American Psychological Association).

Key References:
Persons, J. B. (2005). Empiricism, mechanism, and the practice of cognitive-behavior therapy. Behavior Therapy, 36, 107-118. 
Persons, J. B., & Tompkins, M. A. (2006). Cognitive-behavioral case formulation. In T. D. Eells (Ed.), Handbook of psychotherapy case formulation (Second edition ed.). New York: Guilford.