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CROSS-THEORETICAL CASE CONCEPTUALISATON Introduction to Clients & Significant Others (Identify who the clients are and their demographic features: eg gender, age, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, current occupation/work status/grade in school/)

Presenting Concerns (Description of how all the parties involved – couple, family, friends, school, workplace, society etc - are defining the problem: reasons for coming to counselling, brief history of the problem and couple, descriptions of attempted solutions and outcomes, any other relevant information)

Background Information (History of trauma and abuse, substance use and abuse, precipitating events, related historical background)

Client/Family Strengths & Social Location (Strengths and resources: personal, relational/social, spiritual. Social Location: unique resources, potential challenges)

Family Structure (Family life-cycle stage, boundaries: regulating closeness and distance, interaction patterns, intergenerational and attachment patterns)

Source: Gehart, D. (2018). Mastering competencies in family therapy: A practical approach to theories and clinical case documentation (3rd ed.). Cengage.

EFT CASE CONCEPTUALISATON Negative Interaction Cycle (Describe the cycle & who does what: Pursue/Withdraw; Withdraw/Withdraw; Attack/Attack; Complex Cycles)

Primary & Secondary Emotions (For each person, describe: behaviour in the cycle, secondary emotions, primary emotions, attributions of the other)

Sociocultural Factors (Describe how each person’s social location relates to the problem interaction cycle, including gender, race, ethnicity, immigration status, socioeconomic class, sexual/gender orientation, religion and ability)

Attachment History (Describe key events in each person’s attachment history, including current attachment patterns)

Attachment Injuries (Describe any known attachment injuries in the current relationship)

Attachment Patterns (Describe when clients feel securely connected in their current attached relationships including relationships and conditions for secure attachment, and regularity of secure attachment; and when they don’t feel secure, specify with anxious, avoidant or anxious/avoidant)

Potential Contraindications to EFT (Different agendas for the relationship and therapy; separating couples; abusive relationships; untreated addiction)

Source: Gehart, D. (2018). Mastering competencies in family therapy: A practical approach to theories and clinical case documentation (3rd ed.). Cengage....