Approaches to Case Study:: Handbook for Those Entering the Therapeutic F

Part 1 The idiom of case-study: the case as the unit of accountability; the patient and the case; the case as person and/or situation; roles and relations; a practical exercise in exploring roles; orientation; the case as a unique instance or example of a generality; essential patterns in a case-study. Part 2 The referral: being forewarned - advantages and disadvantages; the referral letter and other sources of pre-meeting knowledge; the sharing of anxieties; the interview; data and relations; fact, inference and verification; verbatim and remembered report; transference and counter-transference; un-history. Part 3 The complaint: viewpoints in complains; the occurrence of illness; information given and withheld. Part 4 The family history: family and genetics; family and culture; family crises. Part 5 The personal history: developmental phases - foetal life; birth; infancy; the toddler; school and latency; adolescence; the middle years; the third age; old age; personality - the nomothetic measures; unique adaptation. Part 6 Patterns of progress: transformation; ups and downs; forwards and backwards; repetition and variation; symmetry and inversion; paradox; mirroring. Part 7 Formulation: diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and prognosis; medical diagnostic classifications; classification of psychological disorders; treatment plans; initial and final formulations. Part 8 Case-study and research: meaning and cause; basic concepts in research - variables and hypotheses including the null hypothesis and change; populations and samples; frequency and distribution; univariate and multivariate analysis; correlation coefficients; regression lines; associations and cause; single case research; phases in research projects. Part 9 The idiom of case-study: more on transformation; communication through the medium; media and modes; the story-line; case-study and biography - truth as fact and truth as fiction; example; confidentiality; genre and diagnosissa.