The Biopsychosocial Formulation Manual: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals [With CD]

Intended to help beginning clinicians and trainees to more efficiently gather, organize, assess and diagnose a patient's history and current illness. The manual is designed to first help the clinician with the initial gathering of data, and secondly to later construct a bio-psycho-social formulation. The text is comprised of five major sections (The Biological Formulation, The Psychological Formulation, The Social Formulation, Risk Assessment, and Prognosis). An easy-to-use Biopsychosocial Formulation Database Record is included in the text, giving the reader a useful resource wherein she can record, organize and begin an analysis of data from both patient interview and chart review data. A companion CD-ROM includes an electronic version of the formulation database, and other valuable tools found in the text.