GUIDELINES FOR CONSTRUCTING CLINICAL CASE STUDIES IN PSYCHOTHERAPY

The article is the result of reflections on the purpose and way of presenting psychotherapy processes in the form of clinical case studies. The presented work presents the basic principles of constructing a clinical case study. The analysis focuses particularly on the consistency of topic selection, presentation of the purpose of the case study and the manner of its implementation. Later in the article, psychotherapy case studies published in the Polish literature are reviewed. Particular consideration is paid to whether and how the authors present the purpose of a given case study, and how this goal has been achieved by them.