COGNITIVE CASE FORMULATION DIAGRAM



COGNITIVE CASE FORMULATION DIAGRAM

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Developmental History

Critical father

Mother threatens abandonment

Peers criticise and tease

Personal Schema

Loner, alone, unlovable

Schema about Others

Critical, rejecting, abandoning

Automatic Thoughts

She thinks I am a loser

I am a loser

When I ask her out she will say no

Its awful to be rejected

I’ll end up alone

Maladaptive Assumptions

If people reject me it means I am unlovable

If you count of people they will abandon you

If people really knew what I was like, they wouldn’t like me

You need others approval to be happy

Conditional Beliefs

If I am very pleasing and give in, then people will like me,

If I meet everybody’s needs then they won’t leave me

Coping Strategies

Avoid approaching others

Defer to others

Don’t assert my needs

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