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      Tradition and Innovation

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      European Journal of Psychological Assessment
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          A Dynamic Systems Approach to Clinical Case Formulation

          Summary: This contribution is based on the evidence that most psychological practitioners are concerned with the facilitation of change processes. They help people to learn, to develop, or to change patterns of cognitions, emotions, and behaviors. Consequently, they need assessment tools that enable them to represent the essential features of the complex systems they are concerned with, i.e., structure of functioning and dynamics. After some introductory remarks on systemic assessment, we focus on two methods of comprehensive data representation: one of them is used in order to represent the structure of functioning of a system, the other to assess its dynamics. The first one is called “idiographic system modeling” and represents the interrelations between the most important variables of a system by graphical means. The other one is based on a continuously produced flow of data about the functioning of a system and on a continuous screening of dynamic features of this time series (critical fluctuations, degree of synchronization, and stability vs. instability). It is called “real-time monitoring.” Perhaps this methodology can help to bridge the gap between research, usually realized in artificial laboratory settings, and the change processes taking place in practice.
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            On the Structure of Case Formulations

            Summary: A case formulation is the result of a complex process of interaction between assessing and assessed persons. There are many factors that exert their influence on this process and its result, although they are usually not even mentioned in the case formulation. This raises the question “What are the structure and characteristics of an adequate case formulation?”. Two different answers to this question are elaborated, both of which rely on an understanding of case formulations as structured sets of idiographic hypotheses, and are distinguished by different explications of the concept of idiographic hypothesis. The implications of the respective explications of the concept of idiographic hypothesis for the concept of case formulation are discussed. Finally, the question “If case formulations are construed as structured sets of idiographic hypotheses, how is the term 'structured set' to be understood?” is briefly addressed.
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              A Dynamic Systems Approach to Family Assessment

              Abstract. The dynamic systems approach provides a general framework for studying processes. Properties of that approach are applied to the issue of family assessment. The description covers methods of assessment of short-term processes (e.g., dyadic interaction) and long-term processes (e.g., changes in interaction patterns over years). Special attention is given to the meaning of fluctuation and its relation to transitions and changes of the family system's properties. Two examples of assessment methods and procedures are discussed. One concerns the use of state space representations, the other the design of family studies, encompassing the use of mathematical models of the hypothesized underlying processes.
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                Journal
                jpa
                European Journal of Psychological Assessment
                Hogrefe Publishing
                1015-5759
                January 2006
                : 22
                : 1
                : 1-3
                Affiliations
                [ 1 ] Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
                Author notes
                Westmeyer Hans, Department of Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, D-14195, Berlin, Germany, hawest@ 123456zedat.fu-berlin.de
                Article
                jpa2201001
                10.1027/1015-5759.22.1.1
                bbff8042-4166-4970-8753-9f4c1e82a457
                Copyright @ 2006
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                Assessment, Evaluation & Research methods,Psychology,General behavioral science

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