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Group Activity - A Beautiful Mind
Group Activity - A Beautiful Mind
GUIDE QUESTIONS
1. What stage of development contributed to the development of the disorder. Explain.
2. Analyze what do these symptoms indicate. Explain.
3. What was John’s unresolved conflict?
4. What are the defense mechanisms used by John Nash?
CASE CONCEPTUALIZATION
1. Predisposing Factors (Causes) – Remote Past – Childhood or Home Factors
2. Precipitating Factors (Precipitants) – Immediate Past – What just happened that triggered the problem?
3. Perpetuating Factors (Maintaining Influences) – Current Psychosocial and Environmental factors that
maintain the problem and affect the diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis.
4. Protective Factors – Conditions or Attributes (skills, strengths, resources, support or coping strategies) in
an individual, families, and communities that help the patient deal more effectively with stressful events and
mitigate or eliminate risk factors in the individual.
PSYCHOPATHOLOGY