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Assessment

40 techniques · 22 approaches
ACT
Bull's Eye
Bull's Eye
A visual values clarification tool. The client marks how close current behavior is to values in major life domains. The target makes the gap…
Adlerian
Early Recollections
Early Recollections
The central diagnostic tool of Adlerian therapy. The client relates the earliest childhood memories — concrete episodes, not repeated events…
Adlerian
The Question
The Question
A classic diagnostic question: "If I could wave a magic wand and your symptom disappeared tomorrow morning — what would change in your life?…
BA
Values and Life Areas Assessment
Values and Life Areas Assessment
A Behavioral Activation technique focused on values and life areas assessment. It helps the therapist and client move from depressive withdr…
Bioenergetics
Body Reading
Body Reading
Observation and description of the client's bodily organization: posture, muscular tone, breath, distribution of energy. Creating a "body ma…
Bioenergetics
Character Structure Analysis
Character Structure Analysis
A joint exploration of the client's character structure: how the body is organized in response to early experience, which defenses have beco…
CBT
Case Conceptualization
Case Conceptualization
A working map of how the client's problems are maintained. CBT conceptualization links situations, automatic thoughts, emotions, behaviors, …
Deurzen
Four Worlds Mapping (Umwelt–Mitwelt–Eigenwelt–Überwelt)
Four Worlds Mapping (Umwelt–Mitwelt–Eigenwelt–Überwelt)
A systemic way of inquiring into the whole of the client's life through four interconnected dimensions of existence: the physical world (Umw…
EFT for Couples
A.R.E. Check-In
A.R.E. Check-In
A regular check of the three attachment questions: accessibility, responsiveness, engagement. Helps the couple monitor the state of the emot…
EFT for Couples
Negative Cycle Identification
Negative Cycle Identification
Identifying and naming the couple's repeating pattern of interaction: who pursues, who withdraws, how each reinforces the other's reaction. …
EMDR
Body Scan (Assessment Phase)
Body Scan (Assessment Phase)
Holding the target image and the negative cognition in mind, the client scans the body from head to feet, noticing the bodily sensations lin…
EMDR
History Taking and Treatment Planning
History Taking and Treatment Planning
The first phase of EMDR — a full history, identifying the key traumatic events and current triggers, assessing the client's resources and st…
EMDR
Negative Cognition (NC)
Negative Cognition (NC)
A personal belief about the self that the trauma has left in the client: "I am helpless", "I am to blame", "I am not safe", "I am not good e…
EMDR
Re-evaluation (Phase 8)
Re-evaluation (Phase 8)
The first step of every following EMDR session — checking the client's state, the result of the previous reprocessing, and identifying the n…
EMDR
Target Image Identification
Target Image Identification
The selection of one specific moment of the trauma — not a generalization and not the whole story, but a specific "frame" that haunts the cl…
EMDR
Validity of Cognition Scale (VoC)
Validity of Cognition Scale (VoC)
A numeric scale from 1 to 7 measuring how much the client believes the positive cognition (PC) when recalling the target image. It is measur…
Frankl
Mountain Range Exercise
Mountain Range Exercise
The client is shown a schematic drawing of a mountain range and places on its peaks people who matter in their life — real and historical, c…
Frankl
Noögenic Neurosis — Diagnosis and Intervention
Noögenic Neurosis — Diagnosis and Intervention
A diagnostic concept and an intervention at once: the differentiation of psychogenic neurosis (source in drives, childhood experience) from …
Gottman
Four Horsemen Assessment
Four Horsemen Assessment
Identifying the four destructive patterns of communication (criticism, contempt, defensiveness, stonewalling) and training the couple to rec…
Gottman
Love Map Exercise
Love Map Exercise
A structured inquiry into the partner's inner world through questions about dreams, fears, stressors, and preferences. The first floor of th…
Gottman
Three-Session Assessment
Three-Session Assessment
Structured diagnostics of the couple: joint interview → individual sessions → feedback with treatment plan.
IBCT
IBCT Case Formulation
IBCT Case Formulation
A structured description of the couple's problem through three elements: theme (the difference), trap (polarization), and mutual trap. The f…
IPT
Interpersonal Inventory
Interpersonal Inventory
Interpersonal Inventory is an IPT intervention used to connect depressive symptoms with current interpersonal events and to turn that connec…
IPT
Timeline of Symptoms and Events
Timeline of Symptoms and Events
Timeline of Symptoms and Events is an IPT intervention used to connect depressive symptoms with current interpersonal events and to turn tha…
ISTDP
Trial Therapy
Trial Therapy
The extended diagnostic-treatment session in which the therapist tests the client's response to pressure, anxiety regulation, and defense wo…
Jung
Word Association Test (WAT)
Word Association Test (WAT)
A diagnostic instrument for uncovering emotionally charged complexes through the analysis of disturbances in reactions to stimulus words. De…
Längle
Existence Scale (ESK) — Diagnostic Use
Existence Scale (ESK) — Diagnostic Use
A 46-item psychodiagnostic questionnaire developed by Längle together with Orgler and Kundi (2003). It measures four existential competencie…
Längle
Four Fundamental Motivations (FM1–FM4)
Four Fundamental Motivations (FM1–FM4)
An anthropological map of the four basic existential questions every person meets. Introduced by Längle in 1993. FM1 — "Can I be?" (being, s…
MBT
Identifying Mentalizing Failures
Identifying Mentalizing Failures
Systematic monitoring by the therapist of the quality of the client's mentalization across the session. The therapist tracks signs of loss o…
MI
Importance and Confidence Rulers
Importance and Confidence Rulers
Two scales from 0 to 10 that help assess motivation and evoke change talk. The importance ruler: how important is change for the client righ…
STPP
Central Focus Formulation
Central Focus Formulation
The early formulation of one central conflict that will organize the whole brief treatment.
STPP
Trial Interpretation
Trial Interpretation
A tentative interpretation offered early to test whether the client can use psychodynamic links without becoming overwhelmed or defensive.
Schema
Diagnostic Imagery / Imagery Assessment
Diagnostic Imagery / Imagery Assessment
The client closes their eyes and recalls a difficult childhood experience — a concrete scene in full detail. The image activates the origina…
Schema
Mode Mapping
Mode Mapping
A visual diagram on which each of the client's modes is drawn as a circle; arrows show the transitions between modes; the size of the circle…
Schema
Schema Psychoeducation
Schema Psychoeducation
A structured explanation to the client of the concept of early maladaptive schemas, the mechanisms of their formation in childhood, the thre…
Schema
Young Parenting Inventory (YPI)
Young Parenting Inventory (YPI)
A self-report inventory in which the client rates the behavior of mother and father separately on items describing parenting styles linked t…
Schema
Young Schema Questionnaire (YSQ)
Young Schema Questionnaire (YSQ)
A standardized self-report inventory of 75–232 items in which the client rates statements on a Likert scale (1–6). Each subscale corresponds…
UP
ARC (Antecedent-Response-Consequence) Analysis
ARC (Antecedent-Response-Consequence) Analysis
A structured analysis of an emotional episode into trigger, response, and consequence. It is the basic self-monitoring tool of the Unified P…
WBT
Ryff Six Dimensions Assessment
Ryff Six Dimensions Assessment
Systematic assessment of the six dimensions of psychological well-being (self-acceptance, positive relations, autonomy, environmental master…
Yalom
Four Dimensions of Existence (van Deurzen)
Four Dimensions of Existence (van Deurzen)
A structure for exploring the client's life through four dimensions: physical (Umwelt — body, health, nature), social (Mitwelt — people, rel…
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