The Reflection Of Depression: Using Adolescent Depression

Reflection of meaning was used in the transcript section, T-29, by helping to provide insight to the client’s meaning when she stated that she felt isolated. Reflection of feelings was used in the transcript section, T-17. By using reflection of feelings, I validated how the client felt by stating that she must feel frustrated with what is going on with her current situation. I used premature interpretation in the transcript section, T-14, by making an assumption on how her dad must feel like rather than acknowledging her feelings of having to add her father on social media. The intended outcome of the session was to learn more about the client and her current situation. It was important to listen to her discuss her issues with the relationship

After using reality therapy to help guide the client to achieve goals of improvement between her relationships with her mother and father, if depression is still occurring, focusing on an evidence-based treatment might be more appropriate. In the Psyc 607 course, Treatment of Children and Adolescents, I learned that depression could be effectively treated in adolescents using Interpersonal Psychotherapy. The textbook, Evidence-Based Psychotherapies for Children and Adolescents included an evidence-based article called Treating Adolescent Depression Using Interpersonal Psychotherapy explained that, “Although not the sole cause of depression, interpersonal conflict is more common among depressed adolescents than their non-depressed peers” (Weisz and Kazdin, 2010, p. 140). Furthermore, the authors of the article included in the textbook, Jacobson and Mufson, explained that, “Dysfunction interactions patterns with parents and peers and were linked to higher levels of depression one year later among a group of adolescents” (Weisz and Kazdin, 2010, p. 2010). Hence,

When I went outside, I was in America, but inside my house, it was Mexico. My father was the leader of the house. It wasn’t that way for some of my American friends” (Sue & Sue, 2008, p. 375). Reading this quote reminded me of the client because she discussed having trouble adjusting and having her father has head of the household. The textbook included a chapter on counseling Hispanics and Latinos. Sue and Sue discussed the importance of family value among the Hispanic population. Learning this made me understand why it was so important for the client to build a relationship with her mother and father that she had not seen in nearly fourteen years. Sue and Sue explained that “stress found among adult Mexican immigrants results in depressive symptoms…culture conflicts all function as stressors for recent immigrants” (Sue & Sue, 2008, p. 386). Hence, the stress of immigration and cultural conflicts can also contribute to the client’s depressive symptoms. However, as I learned in the diversity course, it is important to evaluate the clients’ importance of their culture and determine whether the depression is a result of cultural conflicts rather than make an