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Pattern-based formulation: clinical case 5
Irosh Fernando1, Mahesh Rajasuriya2, Lisa Lampe3
1Staff Specialist Psychiatrist, Newcastle Mental Health Service, Newcastle, NSW, and; Conjoint Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia.
Objective::
To demonstrate how the Pattern-based Formulation can be used to integrate biological, psychological and sociocultural factors in constructing the case formulation in a patient who developed schizophrenia and post-psychotic depression.
Conclusions::
Three new patterns are introduced and used to construct a comprehensive case formulation. This expands the suite of patterns in the pattern-based method of psychiatric case formulation, and further demonstrates its broad utility as an educational resource in psychiatry training.
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