11 records

Checking / compulsive response

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Perfectionism
Perfectionism can drive achievement but may maintain anxiety, depression, shame, procrastination, avoidance, and burnout.
CognitionBehaviour+2
Reassurance seeking
Reassurance seeking can soothe briefly but may maintain uncertainty intolerance, anxiety, dependency cycles, and interpersonal strain.
InterpersonalAttachment+2
Worry
Worry attempts to prepare for danger but may maintain anxiety by overestimating threat and under-testing coping.
CognitionAffect+2
Avoidance
Avoidance reduces distress in the short term but commonly maintains anxiety, trauma responses, functional impairment, and interpersonal narrowing.
BehaviourCognition+2
Splitting
Splitting can simplify unbearable ambivalence but may destabilise relationships, teams, and self-experience.
DefenceInterpersonal+2

Contributing factors and context

Biological, social and cultural material that belongs in the formulation but is not a psychological mechanism. A factor needs case evidence before it explains anything.

Checking / compulsive responseRepeated checking or ritualised responses that may relate to doubt or an intrusive concern.

BehaviourCognition

Conditioning / learned associationsA learned relation between cues, responses and consequences.

BehaviourCognition

Family/system accommodationFamily or support responses that participate in symptoms or repeated avoidance.

InterpersonalSocial

Negative reinforcementAn aversive state decreases after a response, potentially making that response more likely.

BehaviourCognition

Rejection sensitivityRecurrent expectation or detection of rejection with a marked response.

InterpersonalAffect

TraumaCognition

11 records

Checking / compulsive response

Try another pattern

Perfectionism
Perfectionism can drive achievement but may maintain anxiety, depression, shame, procrastination, avoidance, and burnout.
CognitionBehaviour+2
Reassurance seeking
Reassurance seeking can soothe briefly but may maintain uncertainty intolerance, anxiety, dependency cycles, and interpersonal strain.
InterpersonalAttachment+2
Worry
Worry attempts to prepare for danger but may maintain anxiety by overestimating threat and under-testing coping.
CognitionAffect+2
Avoidance
Avoidance reduces distress in the short term but commonly maintains anxiety, trauma responses, functional impairment, and interpersonal narrowing.
BehaviourCognition+2
Splitting
Splitting can simplify unbearable ambivalence but may destabilise relationships, teams, and self-experience.
DefenceInterpersonal+2

Contributing factors and context

Biological, social and cultural material that belongs in the formulation but is not a psychological mechanism. A factor needs case evidence before it explains anything.

Checking / compulsive responseRepeated checking or ritualised responses that may relate to doubt or an intrusive concern.

BehaviourCognition

Conditioning / learned associationsA learned relation between cues, responses and consequences.

BehaviourCognition

Family/system accommodationFamily or support responses that participate in symptoms or repeated avoidance.

InterpersonalSocial

Negative reinforcementAn aversive state decreases after a response, potentially making that response more likely.

BehaviourCognition

Rejection sensitivityRecurrent expectation or detection of rejection with a marked response.

InterpersonalAffect

TraumaCognition