I love the idea.
Psychoanalysts have been doing formulations for years, including consideration of the patient's capacity and strengths.
In fact, psychoanalysts created their own "DSM" years ago to reconceptualize treatment, but it doesn't parallel insurance reimbursements and can create gaps in care continuity. Unless all institutions/practitioners/payors adopt the same thing, it won't fit in the system. Maybe that is why it didn't catch on?
Quote:
"The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM) is a diagnostic framework that attempts to characterize the whole person--the depth as well as the surface of emotional, cognitive, and social functioning. It emphasizes individual variations as well as commonalities. We hope that this framework will bring about improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders and will permit a fuller understanding of the functioning of the mind and brain and their development. The goal of the PDM is to complement the DSM and ICD efforts of the past 30 years in cataloguing symptoms by explicating the full range of mental functioning.
The PDM is based on current neuroscience, treatment outcome research, and other empirical investigations. Research on brain development and the maturation of mental processes suggests that patterns of emotional, social, and behavioral functioning involve many areas working together rather than in isolation."
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Thanks for passing this along. I'm always interested in modeling/reconceptualizing, and it seems like mental healthcare can be so much better. As most of us probably know, there are just so many influences to the current model of care (e.g.-pharma).
edit: wrong link; this one is right from the source and more detailed:
http://www.pdm1.org/intro.htm