Isabel Clarke is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, with 25 years' experience in the NHS, both in outpatient and inpatient. Hazel Nicholls is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, and Founder and Clinical Director of Hampshire IAPT, italk.

'This is an essential guide to Isabel Clarke's distinctive trauma-informed formulation approach to wards, community teams and IAPT services. Simple and yet powerful, this impressive body of work has transformed practice wherever it has been introduced. Mental health practitioners should all be aware of it.' Dr Lucy Johnstone, consultant clinical psychologist and author of 'Formulation in psychology and psychotherapy'."This book is a tour de force of integrationist thinking, applied to current psychotherapeutic approaches. Elements of DBT, ACT and CFT are drawn from using the integrating framework of Teasdale and Barnard’s ICS (Interacting Cognitive Subsystems) model. This has produced an elegant approach to therapy, which can be used in many settings by helpers with varying levels of expertise." Dr Fiona C. Kennedy, author of Get Your Life Back. The Most Effective Therapies For A Better You.

• CONTENTSList of figures and chartsList of abbreviationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsSECTION 1. Foundations.Introduction. Some key concepts.Chapter 1.Introducing the therapy and integrating the third wave.Chapter 2. History of a solution.Chapter 3. Mental health re-conceptualized.Chapter 4. Identifying and breaking the cycles.Chapter 5. From intra-psychic to inter-psychic: Relationships with self and others.SECTION 2. How to do it.Chapter 6. Orientation and formulation.Chapter 7. Generic self skills and introducing emotion.Chapter 8. Compassionate self-self relating: Skills for relating to the past and to anger.Chapter 9. Managing relationships with other people and managing the internal relationship between aspects of the self.Chapter 10. Case example continued and resources for delivering the therapy.SECTION 3. Wider horizons and evaluation.Chapter 11. What is real and what is not: Applying CCC to psychosis.Chapter 12. Creating a psychologically informed environment throughout an acute service. From the Woodhaven pilot to Trust-wide implementation. Chapter 13. IAPT and the challenge of the people who do not fit into the boxes.Chapter 14. Evidence base to date (work in progress) and wider horizons.Conclusion.References.Index.

Isabel Clarke is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, with 25 years' experience in the NHS, both in outpatient and inpatient. Hazel Nicholls is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, and Founder and Clinical Director of Hampshire IAPT, italk.

'This is an essential guide to Isabel Clarke's distinctive trauma-informed formulation approach to wards, community teams and IAPT services. Simple and yet powerful, this impressive body of work has transformed practice wherever it has been introduced. Mental health practitioners should all be aware of it.' Dr Lucy Johnstone, consultant clinical psychologist and author of 'Formulation in psychology and psychotherapy'."This book is a tour de force of integrationist thinking, applied to current psychotherapeutic approaches. Elements of DBT, ACT and CFT are drawn from using the integrating framework of Teasdale and Barnard’s ICS (Interacting Cognitive Subsystems) model. This has produced an elegant approach to therapy, which can be used in many settings by helpers with varying levels of expertise." Dr Fiona C. Kennedy, author of Get Your Life Back. The Most Effective Therapies For A Better You.

• CONTENTSList of figures and chartsList of abbreviationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsSECTION 1. Foundations.Introduction. Some key concepts.Chapter 1.Introducing the therapy and integrating the third wave.Chapter 2. History of a solution.Chapter 3. Mental health re-conceptualized.Chapter 4. Identifying and breaking the cycles.Chapter 5. From intra-psychic to inter-psychic: Relationships with self and others.SECTION 2. How to do it.Chapter 6. Orientation and formulation.Chapter 7. Generic self skills and introducing emotion.Chapter 8. Compassionate self-self relating: Skills for relating to the past and to anger.Chapter 9. Managing relationships with other people and managing the internal relationship between aspects of the self.Chapter 10. Case example continued and resources for delivering the therapy.SECTION 3. Wider horizons and evaluation.Chapter 11. What is real and what is not: Applying CCC to psychosis.Chapter 12. Creating a psychologically informed environment throughout an acute service. From the Woodhaven pilot to Trust-wide implementation. Chapter 13. IAPT and the challenge of the people who do not fit into the boxes.Chapter 14. Evidence base to date (work in progress) and wider horizons.Conclusion.References.Index.