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Amanpreet Kaur* & Naveen Grover**
NIMHANS, Bangalore*, IHBAS, Delhi**
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The present case study highlights the importance of person-situation interaction and the
intake skills in psychotherapy. It is easy for a professional to get into the trap of joining
client in blaming the ‘obvious situation’ for creating a mental health problem, despite
being aware of the basic person-situation interaction formulation. Careful assessment is
warranted to uncover person-situation interaction. Intake skills (for example, cost-benefit
analysis, assessment of feasibility issues, ability to think of alternatives, etc.) play a role
in developing successful psychotherapy contact and treatment planning. This paper
follows a single case study approach, useful in highlighting issues in psychotherapy,
through report of a therapy with a 29 year old woman seeking treatment for depression
since five years following the death of her husband. Use of intake skills and interaction
formulation has lead to better management and positive outcome for her in therapy.
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