Case Formulation Quotes

“You must create a formulation that fits the client, rather than squeeze the client into your preferred formulation.”
― Barbara Lichner Ingram, Clinical Case Formulations: Matching the Integrative Treatment Plan to the Client

“A theoretical orientation is like a complex chemical compound, and a single hypothesis functions like a pure chemical element.”
― Barbara Lichner Ingram, Clinical Case Formulations: Matching the Integrative Treatment Plan to the Client

“Flirt with your hypotheses; don’t marry them.”
― Barbara Lichner Ingram, Clinical Case Formulations: Matching the Integrative Treatment Plan to the Client

“By using the case formulation skills in this book, you are committed to scientific principles: keep data separate from speculation, test the validity of hypotheses with data, and treat interventions as experiments.”
― Barbara Lichner Ingram, Clinical Case Formulations: Matching the Integrative Treatment Plan to the Client