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Development of a training programme in individual case formulation skills and a scale for assessing its effectiveness
Richard Hallam1, Gary Brown2, Liza Turner2
1Independent researcher.
Background:
Little is known about the skills involved in clinical formulation. The individual case formulation (ICF) approach, based on functional analysis, employs clinical descriptions that are theory-free and depicts formulations constructed according to a set of basic conventions.
Aims:
We report a test of whether this method could be taught and if the quality of the resulting diagrams could be reliably rated.
Method:
Participants (n=40) participated in a training course in formulation. A draft rating scale was refined in the course of rating formulation diagrams and basic inter-rater reliability established.
Results:
Results of the study support further development of the ICF approach.
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