'Chipping in': clinical psychologists' descriptions of their use of formulation in multidisciplinary team working.

Objectives: To investigate clinical psychologists' accounts of their use of psychological case formulation in multidisciplinary teamwork.

Design: A qualitative study using inductive thematic analysis.

Methods: Ten clinical psychologists working in community and inpatient adult mental health services who identified themselves as using formulation in their multidisciplinary team work participated in semi-structured interviews.

The reliability and quality of cognitive case formulation.

Limited research on the reliability of cognitive case formulation suggests cognitive therapists can agree about clients' presenting problems but show poor agreement about the inferential aspects of formulation. There has been no research examining the quality of practitioners' case formulations. This study assessed whether participants with different levels of experience could produce reliable cognitive formulations using a systematic cognitive therapy case formulation method: the J.