Mr. Grape is a 52-year-old, single, African American, male who was released from prison 10 months prior to this evaluation. Mr. Grape’s primary language is English. He described his childhood as fairly typical but later revealed his parents separated when he was 8 years old. He stated the separation was due to his father’s recurrent domestic violence and his mother’s infidelity. Mr. Grape described his father as punitive and strict, but also overly lax, uninvolved, irresponsible, and apathetic.…
A 49 year-old divorced Iranian woman presented to an outpatient Manly Hospital in Sydney after a 3-year history of prolonged hospitalizations due to recurrent major depressive disorder with diagnosed psychotic features and chronic impulsive suicidality. Except for brief periods of partial recovery lasting less then 2 weeks, the patient reported several years of chronic sadness, anhedonia, tearfulness, psychomotor retardation, suicidality, guilty ruminations, decreased sleep and appetite, interest, energy, and concentration. She also suffered from restlessness, “nervousness,” trembling, increased startle, anguish, and severe headaches. Patient’s “psychotic” diagnosis was due to the following during her affective decompensations: hearing her name called when alone, glimpsing a darting shadow, and “feeling” someone behind her. Despite past traumas (physical abuse, husband’s murder) she denied many of the symptoms of posttraumatic stress dis- order.…
The other son, Tom, who is 32 years old is currently in the hospital awaiting tumor removal surgery; the tumor’s location is unknown as his father has been in the hospital before the tumor identification. His other son Bob is an addict at age 26 that often lies and cheats to obtain finances from his father. Currently Mr.X’s son, Bob has stolen up to $40,000 out of his bank account while he has been in the hospital and has caused a huge strain on Bob’s relationship to the rest of the family. Mr.X is now considered as a “do not acknowledge” patient so his son Bob cannot cause further harm to him. Mr.X who is 84 has often…
Patient Characteristics The patient, Joe Clay, is a 35 year old white, American male that works in public relations in San Francisco, CA. He has a flirtatious and vibrant personality, filled with bursts of impulsivity. Activities include social drinking due to his work and participating in parties. Patient Functioning & Symptomatic Presentation…
Billy felt depressed since his brother committed suicide two years ago. He began to use alcohol occasionally and now he drinks daily. Billy’s uncle and aunt who live in the same neighborhood worried about Billy and so they brought him to my counseling agency. To work with either a person or a family, I need to establish relationship with Billy by building rapport and trust in the first session.…
Biopsychosocial Information “Nick” is a fifteen-year old African American male that has been a resident at The Bridge since July, 2016. Prior to being referred for treatment by truancy court, Nick had been smoking approximately ten blunts a day and spending money on a daily basis for marijuana. There has been a history of family conflict and recently, Nick’s paternal grandmother passed away from cancer. He was residing with his mother and father along with his two younger siblings. Nick’s mother and father have been together for approximately twenty years.…
The client explained the mother lifestyle after the parent got divorced, she ended up becoming a prostitute have different men around him. The client at this time appears to have issues with women and an anger problem.…
Sanchez Family Case Study In this paper the clinician will be identifying the issues and problems of the Sanchez family. The clinician will prioritize the issues of the case. Along the way they will decide what issues can be resolved clinically and what issues require systemic intervention. Finally, the clinician will decide which family member illicit the least sympathy or empathy.…
In the book, ‘Substance Abuse and the Family” by Michael D. Reiter stresses on how the family structure regulates around the use of substance and the abuse cause from it. In chapter 14, he stresses about family recovery and the recovery process in which the family must take to restructure the family and their rules where they have an open honest relationship due to communicating. Brown and Lewis presented a four-stage developmental model of recovery for families dealing with alcoholism. The first stage of the model is the drinking stage. Brown and Lewis describes the emphasis of the family during this stage: to hide and maintain the secret, to be in denial and create excuses for the alcoholic, and to have the firm certainty that there…
Heroin It is eight a.m. and she has been up for hours at this point. The diarrhea is uncontrollable and her stomach is killing her. She needs to vomit again.…
time. I have been living this process for the last ten years and unfortunately I have been introduced in the incorrect way of helping someone with this disease. This world is full of people who want to make a fortune regardless of what they do to earn it. In Orange County there are many people who do this with rehab facilities and all places related.…
Also, the memory of the Holocaust has proven to be unbearable as it has left long lasting mental effects on the characters. The Nazi government systemically attacked and persecuted the Jews with brutal violence and sent millions of them to concentration camps. As a result, Spiegelman’s family has been traumatized and has “children of holocaust survivors growing up with the simultaneous presence and absence of the Holocaust memory in their lives” (Kohli, 2012, p. 2). In fact, “Maus is not about one survivor or one level of survival, but instead about the varied layers and contradictory exemplifications of survivor and survival”, it is about the future generations constructing their identities in relation to the Holocaust (Kohli, 2012, p. 2,…
In the book Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford, Henry's relationship with his parents affects his other relationships in the 1940s and 1980s negatively by not being able to show his feelings and not having a good father-son bond. Consequently, because he doesn't have a good relationship with his parents, it affects his relationships with Keiko and Marty. Also, Henry doesn’t have any siblings, so he doesn’t have experience talking to people. Henry’s relationship with his father is estranged. Henry has different beliefs than his father.…
Assessment Today some families in America deal with many problems, one of the main stresses that many families have a hard time coping with is when a family member is abusing drugs. Usually, some family members use drugs as a last resort from an issue, they also use it to forget about a certain event that may haunt them, or it could be from a certain stressor within the family itself. In this case study, Jess is a 17-year-old teenage boy, who used to be an A student in school, has started using and abusing drugs/alcohol at the age of 10. As a result, Jess’s grades in school were dropping, he started arguments/fights with his parents, and he recently started to withdraw within himself. For this specific case study, I would use the Family Assessment and Intervention model because many families have almost like…
For a while, I have noticed that my relationship with my father is not the strongest. We are close in that I see him often, but we both do not have very strong communication skills. I believe our lack of communication negatively affects our relationship. I will first evaluate my relationship with my father for the positive elements of communication, equality and openness. Then, I will look for ways that I can resolve the issues I find in the communication on my end.…