The DOI matches its Crossref record.
A response to Simms (2011): Case formulation within a person-centred framework: An uncomfortable fit?
Abstract
In her recent paper, Jane Simms (Simms, 2011) asks if case formulation and the person-centred approach are an uncomfortable fit. The answer she suggests to this is, no, but only so long as the case formulation is ‘conducted in a way that respects clients choice, autonomy and expertise’ (p.35). This answer may on the face of it appear to accord with person-centre values, however I fear her approach does not fully acknowledge some of quite fundamental tensions between the philosophical position assumed within the person-centred approach and more ‘problem-focused’ clinical practices (e.g. Mearns, 2004) within which case formulation plays a central role. Indeed I would go further to argue that the model of person-centred case formulation she offers errs toward the latter and thus moves away from some of the central tenets of person-centred theory and practice.
Overview
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
When formulation is reconceptualized as a tentative, collaborative, and phenomenological process, it can function in ways that remain faithful to person-centered principles of nonpathologization, relational depth, and respect for the client's subjective frame of reference.
“When formulation is reconceptualized as a tentative, collaborative, and phenomenological process, it can function in ways that remain faithful to person-centered principles of nonpathologization, relational depth, and respect for the client's subjective frame of reference (Gillon 2012;Uphoff and Charura 2016).”
From Person‐Centered Case Formulation: A Culturally Responsive and Trauma Informed Reconceptualization for Psychotraumatology Practice (2026) · cites this paper as Gillon 2012
Citations
Cites
No references could be resolved yet.
Research works printed but not linked: 11
- Dudley, R. & Kuyken, W. (2006). Formulation in cognitive-behavioural therapy: ‘There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so’. In L. Johnstone & R. Dallos (Eds.), Formulation in psychology and psychotherapy. Hove: Routledge.
- Johnstone, L. & Dallos, R. (2006). Introduction to Formulation. In L. Johnstone & R. Dallos (Eds.), Formulation in psychology and psychotherapy. Hove: Routledge. · DOI
- Mearns, 2004, Problem-centred is not person-centred, Person-Centred and Experiential Psychotherapies, 3, 88, 10.1080/14779757.2004.9688335 · DOI
- Purton, 2004, Differential response: Diagnosis and the philosophy of the implicit, Person-Centred and Experiential Psychotherapies, 3, 245, 10.1080/14779757.2004.9688355 · DOI
- 10.1037/h0045357 · DOI · Paper page
- Sanders, P. (2005). Principled and strategic opposition to the medicalisation of distress and all of its apparatus. In S. Joseph & R. Worsley (Eds.), Person-centred psychopathology – A positive psychology of mental health. Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books.
- 10.53841/bpscpr.2011.26.2.24 · DOI · Paper page
- Speirer, G.W. (1998). Psychopathology according to the Differential Incongruence Model. In L.S. Greenberg , J.C. Watson & G. Lietaer (Eds.), Handbook of experiential psychotherapy. New York: Guilford Press.
- Warner, M.S. (2000). Person-centred therapy at the difficult edge: A developmentally-based model of fragile and dissociated process. In D. Mearns & B. Thorne (Eds.), Person-centred therapy today: The frontiers in theory and practice. London: Sage.
- Wilkins, P. (2005). Assessment and ‘diagnosis’ in person-centred therapy. In S. Joseph & R. Worsley (Eds.), Person-centred psychopathology – A positive psychology of mental health. Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books..
- Wilkins, 2003, Assessment in person-centred therapy, Person-Centred and Experiential Psychotherapies, 2, 172, 10.1080/14779757.2003.9688310 · DOI
Cited by
Sorted by citations
O'Brien, C., & Charura, D. (2026) · MultiPsych · doi:10.1002/mps2.70012
Metadata
- Authors
- Gillon, E.
- Affiliations
- Glasgow Caledonian University (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Gillon, Ewan
- Venue
- Counselling Psychology Review
- Publisher
- British Psychological Society
- Published
- 2012-03
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 73-76
- ISSN
- 1757-2142 (ISSN-L)
- 2396-8672
- OpenAlex
- W4382135060
- Cited by
- 2
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Counselling Psychology Review (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Counseling Practices and Supervision
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics
- Keywords
- case formulation, person-centered approach, client-centered therapy, client autonomy, consumer choice, client expertise
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
