Frustration Aggression Theory

CASE STUDY 2
As I am furthering my establishment within my internship, I begin to familiarize myself among many of the clients within my internship. Each client has his or her own different diagnoses and that were approached differently by many of the interns and clinicians. Throughout my few months within the Outreach Center there is a particular client that grasp my attention, this client would show behaviors that are different from most of the clients there. This client would have much struggle with building and sustaining relationships with peers and staff, this particular client has a high frustration level which would ultimately get out of hand to a point where the client would have to be restrained by three or four staff members. This …show more content…
The client shows strong aggressive behaviors throughout the time he is in attendance of the Outreach Center, this behavior is normally triggered when he is either being bothered by another client member or being restrained by a staff. During these two examples, this client tends to punch and kick the other client or a staff member due to his frustration level and or aggression level. This behavior are evaluated in light of simple frustration-aggression theory, that aggression is a natural emotion but its also learned from either parents, media, ,and peers. There are few options we have choose to address this behavior, is basically taking time away from the group of clients, this gives this client time to cool down. Ways that cools him down where he is in a quiet room with a clinician involved, he also enjoys taking time out to shoot the basketball outside. We also shared to him to come to us, and let us know when he is either angry or frustrated, this lets us know that he is in need of some alone time, and we reward him with alone time because instead of acting on his frustration with …show more content…
This client has trouble with home schooling due to that he tends to get frustrated to a point where he is throwing objects either at his day treatment counselor or his at home teacher. This can be a big roadblock for his improvement to ultimately be able to come back to regular public school, then again since he is having trouble focusing at home with an at home teacher there’s not much signs of his improvement to come back to public school. The method that we are in the process of executing is multiple breaks that would calm his frustration level when he begins to get upset, in many occasions there are some signs that his temperament would calm down when he given a break. But then again, he would request a break even when he is doing well during the time with his at home