Now in a completely revised and expanded second edition, this indispensable handbook and text brings together leading proponents of the major therapeutic approaches to provide a complete guide to case formulation. Following a consistent format, chapters review the conceptual underpinnings of the respective case formulation models, consider their relationship to therapeutic technique, and offer practical, step-by-step instructions, illustrated with clinical material. Updated with current advances in psychotherapy training and research, all chapters in the second edition include student-friendly examples of completed formulations. Two new chapters address multicultural considerations--a theme that is also woven throughout the book--and provide an integrative overview of the various approaches.

Tracy D. Eells, PhD, received his doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Program on Conscious and Unconscious Mental Processes at the University of California, San Francisco. He is currently Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. He has a busy individual and group psychotherapy practice and teaches psychotherapy to psychiatry residents and clinical psychology graduate students. Dr. Eells has published several papers on psychotherapy case formulation and has conducted workshops on the topic for professionals. He is on the editorial boards of multiple psychotherapy journals and currently serves as Executive Officer of the Society for Psychotherapy Research.

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