Domestic Abuse Case Study

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Part One (a) Family history The client has a very distant relationship with her family. She grew up in a single-parent household and spent most of her childhood alone. The client’s father has an ongoing substance abuse problem so she does not keep in contact with him. She has experienced the opportunity of what having a step-father is like and she did not like it. It brought tremendous hurt to her family and has left her emotionally unstable. She has also experienced domestic violence for eight years and has been extremely traumatized from it. The client has a sister who is nine years younger, but endeavors to find a way to connect with her. (b) Medical History The client has a healthy, clean medical record. She has no reports of major surgery or bone breaks. However, she has a history of seasonal allergies. (c) Social Support The client has a handful of close friends whom she engages with on a daily/weekly basis. She recently got into a relationship with an ex-boyfriend and feels more jubilant than ever. He fortifies her in all ways and helps motivate her to keep pushing and be prosperous. (d) Interpersonal The client has a very confident personality around others. She is very gregarious and Grigsby & Hartman (1997), examined the barriers facing victims by offering therapists an integrated model of intervention cumulating both case management and psychotherapy strategies. Visually represented, The Barriers Model places the battered women in the center of four concentric circles. Each circle represents a layer of barriers in the environment; barriers due to family, socialization, and role expectation; barriers from the psychological consequences of violence and finally, barriers from childhood abuse/neglect issues (Grigsby & Hartman,

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