Patient Presentation Charles Taylor arrived to therapy on time at the outpatient clinic and was oriented x 3. He is a Caucasian male. Charles came to therapy dressed in clean clothing (jeans and shirt) with tennis shoes. Charles is senior in college of 21 years old. He looked to have good hygiene. During his interview, he was overall quiet to the point that it was difficult to understand him. He also appeared lethargic during the interview.
Presenting Problem: Charles in coming to therapy to discuss issues of hopelessness, feeling down and anxiety about his future. This issues have arose since he has received six rejections from medical schools. He receive these rejection about two and half months ago, since this he has noticed that he is
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He has never been prescribed any psychiatric medications. Charles has not had a past history of depression. He did not indicate if his family has any history of mental health issues.
Medical History: Charles Taylor has not indicated that he is suffering from any serious illness or injury. He is not currently taking any medications. In his interview, he indicated that at parties on the weekend, he might consume 3-4 beers. He has also experimented with marijuana a couple times in his sophomore year of college.
Social History and Present Functioning: Charles Taylor is a college student of 4 years, he lives with two roommates. He has friends who encourage him to hang out and participate in activities, but he has lost some interest in some social activities. He reports that he goes to about half of the offer social activities. His peers have noticed a change in his behaviors. When Charles is participating in a social activity, he does enjoy the activity during the duration of the activity. Charles has a relationship with his parents, during this period of hopelessness, his mother has been supportive and his father is disappointed, but attempting to
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Charles is having a hard time moving on from his perceived failure, so I would ask him to create a hierarchy of fearful tasks that focus on aspects of his future, such as applying to another medical school, job interviews, etc. We would work together to bring down anxiety associated with each task. This therapy would also help Charles to work toward his future. However, if other failures come up, as his therapist, I can teach him coping mechanisms and teach him how deal with maladaptive
For the case scenario, a therapist would have John understand that he feeling anxiety, and take responsibility that his actions are a hindrance on his personal and professional life. In this approach, the therapist would focus on John’s feelings in the present moment, and encourage positive thinking about himself, and encourage more positive and, possible, more productive behaviors.
Lastly, Mr. Jock should also consider psychoeducation and care management to increase the effectiveness of the intervention. This will involve the patient and family members during the treatment as they learn about the course of the illness, signs of relapse, and the benefit and risks involved in each of the treatment options available.
She would mostly be alone and sit by herself being buried in books or watching cartoons. In high school she attended a program for troubled adolescents and from there she received a wide range of support from helping her get braces to helping her get information to attend community college. (59) Even with this she was already too emotionally unstable due to her family issues and felt like she couldn’t go through with her dreams to travel and even go into the art of culinary. She suffers from psychological problems such as depression and worries constantly about almost every aspect in her life from work to family to her boyfriend and just hopes that her life won’t go downhill. (60) Overall Kayla’s family structure shows how different is it now from it was in the 1950’s as divorce rates have risen and while before Kayla’s type of family structure was rare now it is becoming more common. This story helps illustrate the contributions of stress that children possess growing up in difficult homes in which they can’t put their own futures first they must, in some cases, take care of their guardian’s futures first or others around them. Again, this adds into the inequality that many face when it comes to being able to climb up the ladder and become successful regardless of where one
Greg is a forty-one year-old man, who is retired from the military. He is in stage seven of Erikson’s psychosocial development called Generativity vs. Stagnation, which includes middle adulthood, forty to sixty-five years of age. According to Capps (2004), Erikson defines generativity as “the concern in establishing and guiding the next generation” (p. 25). This stage claims the largest stretch of time on Erikson’s chart encompassing middle adulthood. Greg has become successful throughout this stage and has a feeling of accomplishment by being active in his home and community. Stagnation represents an individual that is disconnected or uninvolved in their community because they fail to find away to contribute to society. Greg realized he was
Cumming and Henry are two people that made this theory which suggested the possible outcomes for those that disengage from interest and society. They state that people would naturally tend to withdraw from social engagement as they get older. Overall they...
Zachary Taylor was born on November 24, 1784 near Gordonsville, Virginia. His parents, Richard and Mary Strother moved to Kentucky after she was born. Richard, his father served in the American Revolutionary War as a lieutenant colonel. As a third child out of nine, he spent his childhood in the frontier of Kentucky. They lived in a small cabin, but then moved to a brick house when they gained prosperity. His father owned 10,000 acres of land, and 26 slaves (Britannica 2013). Taylor’s family was rich in American history. He was a descendant of the colonist leader of the Plymouth Colony, William Brewster. Taylor’s second cousin is believed to be the fourth president, James Madison (Britannica 2013). As a child, Taylor received very little education as a child. There were no formal schools available in Kentucky. Taylor was homeschooled for only a couple of months (Britannica 2013).
Formulation of Problem/Needs: The client 's presenting problems are caused by her mother’s emotional verbal abuse. In spite of all, her emotional problems Ana maintains a positive outlook towards her future. Ana demonstrates self-determination as she clearly expresses her current issues. She struggles with overeating because she feels unloved and worthless. Ana is seeking services to overcome the resentment she feels towards her mother. She is requesting help to manage her coping skills and reduce her feelings of depression. According to Ana these feelings started at a young age. Ana’s current challenges are learning to cope with her mother’s verbal abuse. Anna will arrange monthly meetings with her social worker to talk about what methods she’s used to coping with her depression. Ana agrees that she needs to find positive away to communicate with her mother. Ana also stays that she wants to learn to be selfish and break free from the traditional stereotypical life of East LA. Ana would like to begin addressing the following
Dan Lee is a 24-year-old pre-med student, who is visiting the university counseling center because of challenges he is facing related to his acceptance to medical school. Some of the issues are emotional and some involve conflicts with loved ones. I will expand more upon this case in the pages to follow.
...ment. The therapists would seek out all strengths they use to effectively deal with their life, while building upon their assets they already posses. The Hoovers may have “strengths and positive human qualities that are often unrecognized, unnamed, and unacknowledged, both in therapeutic and school settings” (Bernard, 1991). Teaching each individual techniques that identify strengths in themselves as well as using positive language to reframe how how they see their current circumstances will promote a more resilient perspective for the Hoovers. Also, an optimistic thinking style when life problems arise will increase the chances of a successful outcome. Richard Hoover shows that he is capable of this but anger and frustration impede further attainment of this techinique. The positive psychology approach would be usefull when working with each person, individually.
I read the client file before I went to meet her. According to her file, she is a singer mother and has a family history of severe depression and she has a 3 year old boy live with her. She asked us to help her to apply a public house. Due to her case that my supervisor and I went to home visit her to get more details about her needs. I thought that would be an easy case to handle it because I have previous knowledge about psychology and mental health. Unfortunately, during the home visit time, she was under depression mood and pushing me to answer her questions rather than answer my prepared questions. My mind was blank and I have no idea how to response and answer her questions at that moment when I realized that situation already off track. Then I have no choice to ask help from my supervisor and let she deal with it. Thus, I failed my first mission in my placement. It is a pity that she is the only one client who has mental illness but I could not help her until I finished my placement in last month. I was thinking why that happened and why I could not use my knowledge to help her. Through my failure case study that I strongly realized that theory is not same as practical experience, and what I learned mental health knowledge is based on the general psychological perspective. I think it will be totally different as what I am studying now.
The counselor accomplishes the above by expressing empathy, developing discrepancies, going along with resistance and supporting self-efficacy. Moreover, the counselor guides the client toward a solution that will lead to permanent posi...
People understand that science displays the world and God does not have to. To have goals and be a nice person, people do not have to have God. People must learn to live without boundaries and help each other improve the world and make it safer. People cannot be themselves and are split apart because of religion.
Due to the information and instruction we received prior to participating in these patient interviews, there was several positive aspects of my interaction with my assigned patient. First, when moving onto a new question I would often reiterate part of the patient’s previous statement to both show that I was attentively listening and to justify the reason for asking that following question. An example of this was after briefly mentioning his wife, I asked “Speaking of your wife, how does she and the rest of your family support you through your medical treatments?” Positive aspects of my non-verbal communication include maintaining focused eye contact, maintaining a close, but appropriate distance between myself and the patient, and leaning forward with my hands together to express interest and support for the patient when they were talking. I also emulated the patient’s facial expressions as to have appropriate facial expressions when they were talking to me.
For effective treatment to take place they would need to bring about favorable change in the patient and change their attitude. Psychiatrist’s need to have a therapeutic attitude of hopefulness for recovery and help the patient make changes by replacing a punitive attitude with a therapeutic attitude. They would need to change th...
From a very early age, children experience many different stages of life until they become fully-functioning adults with distinguished personalities. Throughout each stage of a child’s life, different socialization agents play a pivotal role in his or her development and transition into adulthood. Throughout this essay, I will discuss what socialization is, as well as implying socialization in terms of the connection between biological development of the individual and individuals learning the norms and customs of society. Furthermore, to accomplish this task, I will describe the four key agents of socialization (family, school, peers, and mass media). I then aim for the audience to comprehend the difference between socialization during other