In-Congress Workshop 10 - Mapping Change: A Workshop on Precision Therapy Through Transtheoretical Case Conceptualization and Treatment Planning

This workshop will start with the presentation of a novel transtheoretical, process-based case formulation framework. This framework provides audience members with a practical and efficient clinical tool focused on identifying the processes precipitating and maintaining mental health difficulties in order to support a personalized intervention plan. The framework is also structured to be highly flexible to respond to individual patients’ diverse intersectional identities and lived experiences. The presenters will engage the audience in a discussion of what considerations for case formulation they have found crucial in their experience, and audience members will practice applying the new transtheoretical framework to a clinical case. Next, this session will present a framework for a transtheoretical treatment plan. This plan provides audience members with a second clinical tool: an intuitive framework for translating the case formulation into personalized treatment goals and selecting specific clinical interventions most likely to support the client in overcoming barriers to achieving these goals. The discussion will focus on how this framework unites different evidence-based psychotherapy approaches, allowing for flexible, individualized treatment. The presenters will again engage the audience in a discussion of what considerations for treatment planning they have found critical, and audience members will practice applying the framework to designing a treatment plan for the clinical case. The session will utilize a highly interactive learning approach, including slides, audience discussion, and practical application of the two tools introduced, with ample time for questions.