Psychology / Unit 13 Psych 1487 review, 2 to 3 minutes
One Person, Three Levels, One Plan
The idea
Producing a complete case formulation means integrating biological, psychological, and sociocultural levels into a treatment plan and stating what each level can and cannot reach.
In practice
One case carried from first presentation to a written plan: symptoms checked against criteria, vulnerability and stressor identified, the biological contribution and what medication addresses, the maintaining thought and behavior patterns and the therapy matched to them, the social barriers that determine whether any of it happens, and the alliance the whole plan depends on. Ends by naming the plan's weakest point and how it would be detected.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
- 0027The Biopsychosocial Model
- 1324The Diathesis-Stress Model
- 1326The Biological Perspective on Disorders
- 1328The Psychological Perspective on Disorders
- 1329The Sociocultural Perspective on Disorders
- 1350Major Depressive Disorder
- 1391Assessing a Case Against Diagnostic Criteria
- 1405Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- 1415Antidepressant Medications
- 1425The Therapeutic Alliance
- 1427Barriers to Treatment
- 1447One Case, Three Levels
Unlocks
- Nothing yet depends on this.
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