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This chapter further explores the guidelines for practitioners suggested in Chap. 6 by presenting four case illustrations of patient adolescents with internalized symptom patterns: anxiety symptoms, avoidant behavior, obsessive–compulsive symptoms, and somatization. The chapter demonstrates the utility of Rorschach assessment for formulating predictions in terms of personality characteristics that appear to account both for a particular Rorschach marker and for particular psychopathological manifestations that reflect these characteristics. A clinical picture of each of these four cases is derived from the Rorschach data.
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Tibon-Czopp, S., Weiner, I.B. (2016). Delineating Internalized Symptom Patterns. In: Rorschach Assessment of Adolescents. Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3151-4_8
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