ABSTRACT
This means making sense of the client's problems within the cognitive behavioural model of emotional disorders. Westbrook et al suggests a case conceptualization consists of three components: the current problem; an account of why and how these problems might have developed; an analysis of the key maintaining processes hypothesized to perpetuate the problems. A tentative case conceptualization started in the first session and refined/modified in the light of new information until therapy terminated. Wills and Sanders suggest that a good case conceptualization helps the client to answer such questions as 'Why me?', 'Why now?' the therapist shares his client to decide its accuracy to help the client understand herself and her problems better. Even though a case conceptualization straightforward to understand, some clients find it difficult to grasp of capturing their problems; in these cases, the therapist and client build a capsule conceptualization: summing up in a memorable single sentence the problem and the proposed solution to it.
