Social Work Case Study

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On November 16, 2016, I sat down with Sarah for a face-to-face interview about her physical, cognitive, social, and spiritual development as a young adult. Sarah is a twenty-year-old female college student in a relationship with no children. The interview was conducted in the living room of her Kuyper apartment on Dordt’s campus. Sarah affirmed that she does consider herself to be an adult, having just reached this state at the age of twenty. When asked why her twentieth year was so formative of her adulthood, she contributed the reason partially to her new summer job causing her to manage her finances more diligently. One of the biggest lifestyle changes defining adulthood for her is the difference between being an underclassman and upperclassman …show more content…

One thing that she is confident that will not change is her career plans. She said she has been dead set on her educational goals since she was a freshman in high school. She portrays a mixture of idealistic as well as realistic thought when it comes to her goals in the next five years. Sarah said that within the next five years will be starting on her doctoral program, possibly at UNI, but preferably in a larger urban area. She ambiguously hopes to work a part-time job during that process wherever she can find one. Sarah was very adamant about how she is determined to not be a part of the increasing number of college graduates who return to live with their parents (Santrock, 2014, p. 297). However, Sarah does not want to ever live alone either, reflecting on since she had always either shared a bedroom with a sister or a college roommate, she relies on the presence of another person in the room to enable her to fall asleep easier. Nevertheless, Sarah never said that she imagined herself married in the next four years or when she is forty. She said that by the age of forty, she will have finally received her doctorate degree and will still be paying off her student loans. She does not expect to be in a long-term home or a long-term career until the early thirties at the

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