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PRAGMATIC CASE STUDIES IN PSYCHOTHERAPY

Posted By: Dan Fishman
Date: Sunday, 26 February 2006, at 3:48 a.m.

PRAGMATIC CASE STUDIES IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
http://pcsp.libraries.rutgers.edu
*** a peer-reviewed e-journal of systematic case studies & case study method articles ***
From Dan Fishman, Editor --
ANNOUNCING PUBLICATION OF A NEW CASE STUDY PRESENTING A MANUALIZED, GROUP-BASED, COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL APPROACH TO SOCIAL PHOBIA,
"Identifying and Targeting Idiosyncratic Cognitive Processes in Group Therapy for Social Phobia: The Case of Vumile," by David Edwards & Swetha Kannan, from Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa.
*** With Commentaries by William Sanderson, Steven Fishman, and Cynthia Turk.

Generally, the Edwards and Kannan case illustrates how a client's treatment can be individualized within a manualized treatment to suit the needs of the particular client.

More specifically, the Edwards & Kannan case study is noteworthy, in part, for possessing interrelated levels of case study context. Specifically, this case involves Vumile, an individual in group therapy, with comparisons to other clients in the group. In addition, the therapy employs a manualized protocol that is a variant of one employed in randomized clinical trials. The case study, then, is able to explore the links among individual therapy, group therapy, manualized treatment, and randomized clinical trial research, which is associated with the empirically supported treatment (EST) movement. The expertise of the Commentators was chosen in part with this in mind: Sanderson's expertise includes the development of the EST movement; S. Fishman's, the clinical treatment of social phobia; and Turk's, manualized treatments and EST research with social phobia.

Note that Article 1 in this Module is followed by a series of Appendices in Article 2. The Appendices document more fully many of the details in the manualized treatment, and in so doing the Appendices reflect the careful and systematic way in which the various facets of the treatment have been made clear, explicit, and concrete by the authors. Hyperlinks are provided in Article 2 to facilitate navigating within the extensive material provided.

Previous publications in 2005 include:

** MODULE 1 articles on multimodal therapy (Lazarus) and the pragmatic case study method (D. Fishman).

** MODULE 2 articles on cognitive-behavioral exposure treatment with three American troops in Iraq (Cigrang, Peterson, & Schobitz , with Commentaries by Nathan and Petronko).

** MODULE 3 articles on balancing supportive and insight-oriented, psychodynamic therapy with a client undergoing intense life stresses (Skean, with Commentaries by Goodheart and Miller).

To view these articles, click on the Archives button on the top of the PCSP Home Page, then click on the Module Archive arrow, and finally click on "Volume 1, No. 1 (2005)," "Volume 1, No. 2 (2005)," or "Volume 1, No. 3 (2005)," respectively.