Maybe you could use the physical complaints as elements to elicit the
constructs,,,,,,,,,,, I would use dyadic elicitation and ask patients to pick
any two and say how they are the same or different (emergent pole), then say
being like ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, as opposed to (implicit pole). You could have "me
now"; "how I would like to be in ,,,,,,,,,,,, 6 or 12 months"; "my
ideal",,,,,,,,, plus what significant others think of me as elements against
which to rate the elicited constructs.

Best wishes

Mike Hymans.C.Psychol., AFBPsyS.
Chartered Psychologist






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