TY - JOUR
T1 - What is Formulation in Psychiatry?
AU - Owen, Gareth
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press.
PY - 2023/4/7
Y1 - 2023/4/7
N2 - The practice of formulation has been both championed and severely criticised within clinical psychiatry and interest in formulation within the teaching of clinical psychiatry is at a low ebb. This article traces the history of the Bio-Psycho-Social model, the concept of Diagnostic Hierarchy and the role of ´Verstehen' (or intersubjective meaning grasping) in the clinical assessment. All three of these concepts are considered relevant to the practice of formulation. Responding to challenges aimed at these concepts, it argues that formulation in psychiatry needs resuscitating and rethinking and provides some recommendations for a practice of formulation fit for the 21st century.
AB - The practice of formulation has been both championed and severely criticised within clinical psychiatry and interest in formulation within the teaching of clinical psychiatry is at a low ebb. This article traces the history of the Bio-Psycho-Social model, the concept of Diagnostic Hierarchy and the role of ´Verstehen' (or intersubjective meaning grasping) in the clinical assessment. All three of these concepts are considered relevant to the practice of formulation. Responding to challenges aimed at these concepts, it argues that formulation in psychiatry needs resuscitating and rethinking and provides some recommendations for a practice of formulation fit for the 21st century.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0033291723000016
DO - 10.1017/S0033291723000016
M3 - Article
SN - 0033-2917
VL - 53
SP - 1700
EP - 1707
JO - Psychological medicine
JF - Psychological medicine
IS - 5
ER -