Includes bibliographical references and index.

Case formulation: from the theory to the case -- Case formulation in dialectical behaviour therapy -- Transference-focused psychotherapy: structural diagnosis as the basis for case formulation -- Case formulations in mentalization-based treatment (MBT) for patients with borderline personality disorder -- The corrective experience of getting a life: case formulation using general psychiatric management as a framework to facilitate remission and recovery -- Case formulation in schema therapy: working with the mode model -- Cognitive analytic therapy: a relational approach to young people with severe personality disorder -- Case conceptualization in clarification-oriented psychotherapy -- Formulation of functioning for avoidant personality disorder in metacognitive interpersonal therapy -- What might work when nothing seems to work: Case formulation in the treatment of antisocial personality disorder in a forensic mental health setting -- Formulating key psychosocial mechanisms of psychopathology and change in interpersonal reconstructive therapy -- Motives, defences, and conflicts in the dynamic formulation for psychodynamic psychotherapy using the ideographic conflict formulation method -- Case formulation in cognitive and behavioural therapy -- Conceptualizing borderline personality disorder within an emotional disorders framework: implications for treatment with the unified protocol -- Plan analysis and the motive-oriented therapeutic relationship -- Tailored treatment planning for individuals with personality disorders: the operationalized psychodynamic diagnosis (OPD) approach -- Case formulation in interpersonal defence theory: a process model of interpersonal phenomena that play key roles in psychopathology and psychotherapy -- Alliance-focused formulation: a work in process -- Emotion-based case formulation for personality disorders -- Individualizing treatment for clients with personality disorders.

Case Formulation for Personality Disorders helps mental health clinicians start effective treatment programs for their patients on the right track. Tying together practice and theory, the book provides detailed clinical guidance on how to build treatment plan for patients suffering from various personality disorders. The book aids in both making sense of these complex disorders as well as developing tailored evidence-based interventions. The book takes an integrative approach to case formulation, looking at both biological and genetic factors in personality disorders and how they affect case formulation. Provides various methods of case formulation that are tailored to specific personality disorders Covers cultural factors that need to be considered when constructing case formulations Discusses the role of, and problems associated with, the diagnosis of personality disorders Looks at issues relating to the measurement of personality disorders Covers the development and origins of personality disorders.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.