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Case Formulation
Case Formulation
A key feature of Schema Therapy is spending a number of sessions really getting to understand you.
We do that in a number of ways:
- Examining your underlying dispositional personality of temperament.
- Identifying your key schemas or unmet needs
- Working out how these schemas drive the way you feel, think and behave
- Understanding yourself in the story about your child’s experience of needs not being met.
This a collaboration between you and I.
This is a key process of Schema Therapy.
It is important for you us both to understand why your current life problem is there.
It is important for you to integrate and build awareness.
Here is an example of Isabel's case formulation.
- Isabel is 28 years and her current life problem is feelings of social anxiety and depression
- We were able to identify that her temperament indicated that she is: introverted (doesn’t naturally like to spend time with people and not assertive); is hard working; is more likely to worry and panic when confronted with difficult situations, experiences low moods and is self conscious around people.
- We also discussed how this temperament combined with early experiences childhood experiences (parents did not have time for her) leads her to fear abandoned and not cared for. The only way she got their attention was by being a ‘good girl’ and being an excellent student.
- Schemas of Abandonment and Emotional deprivation leads her to feel lonely and anxious when her husband travels for work and fears not doing a good as a wife and mother and at her work (this is her Vulnerable Child).
- She is often self critical – we identified that this is linked to her parents who always worked (her Demanding Parent) and always making her feel that she needed to do better. She often felt guilty asking her parents to take her to visit her friends.
- We worked on understanding her coping modes to:
- Avoid feeling of social anxiety by not attending social or work gathering (Avoidant Coping)
- Overcompensate feelings of not being good enough by being ‘Miss Perfect.’
- Comply with her husband by not arguing and asking him to meet her needs.
Look forward to working with you on developing your Case Formulation.
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