Client Assessment and Formulation with Person Centered Approach

This paper is comprised of a case study on success of using psychotherapy for “Laura1” a client who experi-ences emotional disruption and executive difficulties. The primary approach of the issues of the client has been Person Centered Therapy, although some other problem-solving techniques such as pluralistic frame-work was also used. A report done previously of therapy with a client who experienced executive dysfunc-tion suggested that the client tend to perseverate on some specific negative thoughts inducing significant dis-tress to such clients. The case study of Laura has shown that this can be a risk, although there is possibility of working successfully with at least certain clients, and for doing so the Person-Centered approach is used.

Keywords: Person-Centered therapy; Emotional disruption; Executive dysfunction; Pluralistic framework

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