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Development of a training programme in individual case formulation skills and a scale for assessing its effectiveness.
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1352-4658
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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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]