Harmonizing and Contrasting Psychotherapy Approaches: Case Presentation

TL;DR

This paper presents a case of a woman with depression and explores how different psychotherapy approaches can be applied.

Contribution

The novelty lies in illustrating how various psychotherapies can be harmonized and contrasted in a real-world clinical case.

Findings

A detailed clinical evaluation led to a diagnosis of major depressive disorder.

The case highlights the importance of cultural evaluation and empathetic reformulation in treatment planning.

Different psychotherapeutic methods showed case-specific advantages and standard aspects.

Abstract

Various psychotherapeutic approaches could be used for the assessment, formulation, and treatment of the same case. It is of great importance to include cultural evaluation and empathetic reformulation in psychotherapy applications. This case presentation illustrates a female patient in her thirties who was consulted at the psychiatric outpatient clinic with depressive symptomatology, which presented after a psychosocially stressful life event. Following a detailed clinical evaluation, psychotherapeutic treatment was planned with the diagnosis of major depressive disorder. In this case presentation and subsequent discussion, the case-specific advantages, along with standard and differing aspects of different psychotherapeutic methods and treatments, will be evaluated.

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