How Creative Methods Can be Used to Develop a Healthy Adult Mode in Psychotherapy: A Case Study
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Abstract
The purpose of the case description is to describe a crucial element of a psychotherapeutic process, where patient and therapist work to enact the patient´s perceptions and experiences via tangible, visual and representative methodology, and to explain, in context, relevant starting points in taping24, psychodrama20 and the mode concept in schema therapy35.
The case study is built on qualitative design and comprises a presentation of a psychotherapeutic process, as well as a description of theoretical and methodical starting points in the methodology. The case study consists of a selection of material from a session in a psychotherapy process with a patient during the period 2022–24. The purpose is to describe an element of that process.
The outcome is presented in text and images on the basis of a described change process.
The principal conclusions in the case study demonstrate that the combination of taping, psychodramatic techniques and the mode model10 from schema therapy share several common denominators. The theoretical and methodical starting points can be combined and can contribute to identifying the following factors as significant parts of the therapeutic process described: visualization of vulnerabilities, identification of unsatisfied needs, mentalization, change in behavior and development of a healthy mode.
The case description is relevant given that the combined methodology is still an innovative area, and the case description has a contribution to make to development of the methodology within the area.
This article describes how tangible, visual and creative methodologies can be applied in psychotherapy. The method combines techniques from taping and psychodrama, and uses schema therapeutic points of origin.
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