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Some Thoughts on Chapter “Case Formulation in the Behavioral Tradition: Meyer, Turkat, Lane, Bruch, and Sturmey” by Giovanni Maria Ruggiero, Gabriele Caselli and Sandra Sassaroli

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This brief commentary addresses four points that arise from the chapter “Case Formulation in the Behavioral Tradition: Meyer, Turkat, Lane, Bruch, and Sturmey” by Giovanni Maria Ruggiero, Gabriele Caselli and Sandra Sassaroli. These are What is meant be “sharing a case formulation”; what is the relationship between case formulation and therapeutic relationship; what is the behavioral the conception of cognition and meta-cognition in behavioral case formulation; and, finally, what is the self-managed life?

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Sturmey, P. (2021). Some Thoughts on Chapter “Case Formulation in the Behavioral Tradition: Meyer, Turkat, Lane, Bruch, and Sturmey” by Giovanni Maria Ruggiero, Gabriele Caselli and Sandra Sassaroli. In: Ruggiero, G.M., Caselli, G., Sassaroli, S. (eds) CBT Case Formulation as Therapeutic Process. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63587-9_7

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