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Given that clients vary substantially in the nature and severity of intimate partner violence (IPV), relationship problems, difficulties with emotion regulation, histories of trauma, posttraumatic symptoms, other life problems, and motivation to change, individual treatment does not follow a highly specified session-by-session format. The approach described here relies on case formulation of the individual’s problems and flexible selection and implementation of common intervention strategies tailored to the client’s specific needs. The conceptual foundation for trauma-informed individual therapy for IPV relies on the social information–processing model described throughout this book. Treatment uses similar cognitive- and behavior-change strategies to promote relationship skill development. The group intervention strategies outlined elsewhere in the book can be selected and adapted to meet the client’s most significant concerns and limitations. As in group work, the individual is provided education about the role of trauma in relationship problems and is helped to identify relevant cognitive themes and behavioral difficulties. In addition to these trauma-informed intervention strategies, individual treatment can also provide trauma-focused therapy involving the analysis of trauma narratives and cognitive change strategies adapted from cognitive processing therapy (Monson, Resick, & Rizvi, 2014; Resick & Schnicke, 1992). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)