i. Physical functioning – health concerns, nutrition, home safety, illness, disabilities medication ii. There were no health concerns other than her mentally state. She had many occasions when she said she tired and/or wanted to kill her husband while she shave him. The client nutrition is in great standing. The client home safety is questionable because of her husband physical abuse. The client illness and disabilities medication needs further assessment.
iii. Mental Status
1) Intellectual functioning – Client did not attend schooling but was taught how to read by her sister.
2) Appropriateness of behavior- Client seems to have times where she is covering her mouth while she speaks. But the client does have appropriateness …show more content…
Defense mechanisms- defense mechanisms used on client, is having the client understand that she holds all the power on her destiny. Showing the client that she is not alone. Using the love ones that really love and care about her ass tools. ii. Self-concept/self-esteem- The client self-concept of herself is ugly because that is what people has told her. But the client begins to build self-esteem after finding out that her children are alive and living with her sister. iii. Struggles with mental health issues (diagnosis?)- Additionally assessments is needed
b. Strengths, ways of coping and problem solving capacities
i. Coping Skills
1) With everyday life in the life cycle the client reads in remembrance of her sister teaching to stay close and she starts to read the letters once she found them.
2) with mental health problem, this need additional assessments
3) With physical disability, does not apply to the client.
4) with grief, the client begins to build a close relationship with Shug because she feels betrayed and hurt by her sister ii. Strengths iii. The client builds strength after she reads her sister letters and realize that her children are not dead and that they are with her sister safe. iv. Problem solving …show more content…
Religion plays an extremely important role in the client life. For most of the client life she dedicated her days to the church and God because she said she knew he loved her. The importance influence her faith played in her lives religion, is what allowed Celie to wake up every day. As a young girl her mother took her to church and for most of childhood and adulthood, she always spoke to God by saying “Dear God”. ii. Factors of diversity: Celie is an African American women, from the rituals part of Georgia. The client family was poor and the lived in poverty for most of her adolescence. The client sexual orientation is straight but she stated that she did encounter a special moment with her friend Shug. The client difference physical and mental abilities were not similar to the women around her. The client did not speak with confidence and had a lack of the forcefulness to stand up for herself. Until the fall of 1937 when she started to become independent and confident within herself. The intergenerational factors were that were assessed is the pass down of women in her family and community. The factors included the fathers and/or step father raping and abusing the young girls and marrying them off to men half their