Approaches to Case Study
A Handbook for Those Entering the Therapeutic Field
Published on 1. October 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
120 pages
978-1-85302-182-4 (ISBN)
Description
A practical guide for those working with patients, this book will assist students in settling into their early placements and form a useful reference for those with more experience. Each chapter includes lists of questions which need to be borne in mind when approaching such topics as what is the reason for referral, what exactly is troubling the patient, what is the relevance of family or personal background, and what is the diagnosis, treatment plan and potential outcome.
The book draws on anthropological and biographical as well as medical models, stresses ways of bridging the humanist and scientific approaches, and emphasizes the value of the patient (as well as the therapist) discovering his or her own story.
The book draws on anthropological and biographical as well as medical models, stresses ways of bridging the humanist and scientific approaches, and emphasizes the value of the patient (as well as the therapist) discovering his or her own story.
Reviews / Votes
A must for everybody who is writing or thinking about writing case-studies. -- Nordic Journal of Music Therapy Those readers who find themselves in the early stages of their career in the caring professions...will find this slim volume extremely useful. It is a well-structured book which is very clearly written... This book helps the worker to think constructively about a case from before the referral through to the conclusion of contact. The chapter on 'Case Study and Research' is unique, as it is dealing with the matter in depth as well as being practical. -- Group Analysis ...a practical guide for those contemplating an initial foray into the world of psychotherapy. Chapters covering the referral process, presenting complaint and aspects of personal and family history, leave one with a wealth of useful questions to have in mind when seeing clients... [the book is] of particular appeal to those working in medical settings who have an interest in reaching a more psychologically-based understanding of their patients. -- Association of Child Psychology and Psychiatry Although this scholarly, spirited and enjoyable monograph was written for practitioners of psychological as well as arts therapies, it speaks to physiotherapists in a fresh and elegant way... It has caused me to think about the purpose and the format of case studies...I hope that it finds its way on to recommended reading lists. -- Anne Parry, PhysiotherapyMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
207 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85302-182-4 (9781853021824)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Robin Higgins, MB BCh, DPM, BMus, is a consultant child psychiatrist (retired). He has worked with the Laban Centre and Goldsmiths College and his continuing interest is in the arts therapies.
Content
Some preliminary questions I: THE IDIOM OF CASE-STUDY (1). 1. The Case as the Unit of Accountability. 2. The Patient and the Case. 3. The Case as Person and/or Situation. 4. Roles and Relations. 5. A Practical Exercise in Exploring Roles. 6. Orientation. 7. The Case as a Unique Instance or Example of a Generality. 8. Essential Patterns in a Case-study. II: THE REFERRAL. Some questions to be asked before the patient is seen. 9. Being Forewarned: Advantages and Disadvantages. 10. The Referral Letter and Other Sources of Pre-meeting Knowledge. 11. The Sharing of Anxieties. Some basic questions about the interview. 12. The Interview. 13. Data and Relations. 14. Fact, Inference and Verification. 15. Verbatim and Remembered Report. 16. Transference and Counter-transference. 17. Un-history. III: THE COMPLAINT. Questions for eliciting complaints from the patient and others. 18. Viewpoints in Complaints. 19. The Occurrence of Illness. 20. Information Given and Withheld. IV: THE FAMILY HISTORY. Questions for constructing a family tree. 21. Family and Genetics. Questions for setting a patient in a cultural background. 22. Family and Culture. 23. Family Crises. V: THE PERSONAL HISTORY. Key questions for assessing the nature of each developmental phase in the patient's life. 24. Developmental Phases: Foetal Life; Birth; Infancy; the Toddler; School and Latency; Adolescence; the Middle Years; the Third age; old age. Questions for mapping the patient's personality. 25. Personality: the Nomothetic Measures; Unique Adaption. VI: PATTERNS OF PROGRESS. Questions about sequential patterns. 26. Transformation. 27. Ups and Downs. 28. Forwards and Backwards. 29. Repetition and Variation. 30. Symmetry and Inversion. 31. Paradox. 32. Mirroring. VII: FORMULATIONS. Questions about classifications and treatment plans. 33. Diagnosis, Differential Diagnosis, and Prognosis. 34. Medical Diagnostic Classifications. 35. Classification of Psychological Disorders. 35. Treatment Plans. 36. Initial and Final Formulations. VIII: CASE-STUDY AND RESEARCH. Questions for the setting-up and testing of hypotheses in a case-study. 37. Meaning and Cause. 38. Basic Concepts in Research: Variables and Hypotheses Including the Null Hypothesis and Chance; Populations and Samples; Frequency and Distribution; Univariate and Multivariate Analysis; Correlation Coefficients; Regression Lines; Associations and Cause. 39. Single Case Research. 40. Phases in Research Projects. IX: THE IDIOM OF CASE-STUDY (2). Questions about the final form of the case-study. 41. More on Transformation. Communication Through the Medium. 42. Media and Modes. 43. The Story-line. 44. Case-study and Biography: Truth as Fact and Truth as Fiction; Example; Confidentiality. 45. Genre and Diagnosis. References. Index.