Approach to a stomachache: The case of teenager was diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome.

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Irritable Bowel Syndrome; IBS is digestive disorder which causes constipation or diarrhea along with stomachache or discomfort in the abdomen even though no issue on examination of intestines or blood test show and it often happens to teenager. We have clear guidelines from diagnosis to the end of treatment domestically but most of the research on psychotherapy is from overseas and we do not have many researches in Japan. On this report we show the case for session with teenager who was diagnosed with IBS. This is the case where the client stated that he didn’t have clear stress but suffered with the sudden stomachache without known reason and found out how to deal with it himself in the process of understanding the symptoms. We had three sessions including intake session and he showed the improvement and the case was closed. We observed the three points – the construction of rapport using noise, humor and confusion and the psychotherapy approach toward IBS and what changed CL’s attitude.