Case conceptualization is a process of describing, combing and understanding the psychological problems of visitors with some theoretical assumptions. In this process, the psychological counselor will form a statement according to the personal growth history, behavior, interpersonal relationship, self-feeling and experience, thinking mode and many other phenomena and development trends scattered in the visitor's life. This statement is like putting forward a set of explanations, or more accurately, a set of assumptions, and then stringing these scattered, partial, hidden, explicit and other information together with some theory to understand their problem types through the way of thinking, feeling and action of visitors, so as to form a clear context for visitors' experience.
In consultation, when the counselor is lost in the information and details provided by the visitors, it is particularly important to conceptualize the case, which can promote the counselor to effectively integrate the confusing information of the visitors, sort out the complicated and contradictory information, and point out the consultation direction for the counselor. All psychological counselors understand the problems of visitors through continuous case conceptualization, so case conceptualization is an indispensable thinking tool in psychological counseling. A series of hypotheses about the causes, promoting factors and influencing consequences of visitors' cognition and interpersonal behavior are usually called case conceptualization.
When we conceive a case, we should not only consider the thoughts, feelings and behaviors of visitors, but also consider why they are like this. Example: "Why does he always face problems?" "Why does he always do this?" Why does he always have negative emotions? And so on, different cause analysis can make psychological counselors take different counseling methods, so the premise is to form assumptions about these problems.
Each conceptual model has different views on the causes of various problems shown by visitors. Different theoretical schools have different conceptualization requirements, different emphases, different explanations of visitors' problems and different conceptualization standards. No matter which therapy the counselor insists on, he must always keep in mind the needs of the visitors.
Through case conceptualization, visitors can paste their questions from different angles.