ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to give a flavour of the kind of integrative formulation that psychologists might use with individuals and teams in physical health care settings. The application of formulation to the medical context entails the same principles and strategies outlined in the earlier chapters but with the obvious difference that a central aspect of the service user’s difficulties will always be related to an actual or potential experience of physical threat (whether an illness, condition, injury, disability or symptom, such as pain). Some differences of emphasis and process follow from this central shift of focus, as will be discussed below, before Janet’s case is presented from the health perspective.
