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Here's an electronic copy of the Case Conceptualization form from the Learning ACT book. Feel free to use it along with the book so that you don't have to have an ugly, photocopied version from the book (with the smudges and coffee stains from when you spilled your coffee on it...I hate it when that happens!).
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caleb   | Registered | 2010-02-14 22:57:59
This is a great form. I'm also interested in finding an ACT conceptualization that has some focus on how the client's past experience/learning has affected the individual in the present.
drluoma - happy to help     | Super Administrator | 2010-02-15 13:36:08
avatar I'll help if I can. What do you want the form to accomplish?

Anytime you do a functional analysis, both past experience and current events are considered. Its the essence of a functional analysis. Thus, any case conceptualization should reflect the person's past experience. For example, what you list as forms of avoidance or events that are avoided all relate to the particular person's history.

Can you give me more input?

Best,
Jason
caleb   | Registered | 2010-02-15 20:47:15
I ask because I'm taking my comprehensive exams in about 5 months or so and there's a lot of focus on conceptualizing how the patient's past has contributed to the diagnoses. I've read a few ACT books and I've noticed that there is a lot of focus on how symptoms are maintained rather than a specific theory of how they develop. I noticed on your website that you provide telephone supervision. If you're still available, I would definitely be interested.

Thanks,
Caleb
drluoma   | Super Administrator | 2010-02-16 11:35:39
avatar The ACT/RFT and other forms of behavioral theorizing have lots to say about the development of problems.

If by problems you are meaning "diagnoses" and you are trying to look for models of how specific diagnostic syndromes develop, you probably won't see things written in that way, as this model doesn't break things up in the same way. Our normal DSM-IV diagnostic categories break down when examined through a functional lens. ACT/RFT and behavior analysis would have much to say about how particular behaviors are learned and maintained over time. In fact, the whole model is based on a understanding behavior in terms of its current AND historical context. From this viewpoint, behavior really can't be understood without understanding its historical context.
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