Rebekah Patterson Case Studies

Rebekah Patterson, a tall, black-haired, and gorgeous girl, came across a very hard event in her life as she was only 15-years-old and in her first year of highschool. She was taking high school classes while being homeschooled. She loved being homeschooled and she actually graduated earlier than most high school students would.
Rebekah 's parents, Tori and William Patterson, had gotten a divorce while she was in high school. Her father was caught in an affair with someone else, he was caught stealing and, “doing other bad things,” she said. Rebekah does not want to name the ‘bad things’ he got caught doing. This divorce was so bad that he ended up taking the house and her mother and younger sister, Sarah, had to live with their grandfather. She was the youngest out of her siblings and thus, made it harder to cope with her parents divorce as she was still an adolescent. She has two sisters, Sarah, 17-years-old, Liz, 22-years-old, and one brother, Michael, 25-years …show more content…
So, her mother made her go see a therapist. She had been seeing a therapist for anxiety but she restarted seeing her therapist again because of the divorce. “I didn’t want to go see the therapist again at that time because I just didn’t. But after a while, I started to like it. It made the situation better.” Rebekah said with surprising joy. Her therapist was the only one that helped her cope with everything. A disadvantage that came with being someone with divorced parents were, feeling like it was all your fault. “I felt like it was my fault and there was nothing I could to to change it. I felt terrible.” She said sadly. Not many advantages came with it either. Although, she explained that she got to see things from a different perspective. The divorce changed her in the way that she looked at life differently. She didn’t take things for granted anymore and she appreciated more things in life. She was also more considerate of other people