Daddy Dearest: A Women Who Seemed To Suffer From Depression And Anger Issues

The case study Daddy Dearest was about a women who seemed to suffer from depression and anger issues. However, throughout the therapy themes such as loneliness and issues with her father came up often. As I was reading the case study, the clinician seemed to work well and interpret what Theresa was stating to him; however, on one occasion, the therapist stated that he had overreached when interpreting a statement Theresa had made. I realized the negative effects a statement can make to the progress of a client. If a client is not ready to work on a certain issue, overreaching can lead to complete silence from the client’s part. As in the case of Theresa, when the therapist overreached, Theresa stopped having reflections of meaning and instead began silent. It was interesting to witness how one wrong statement or question can really lead a client to a negative direction. While I continued to read the case study, it was interesting …show more content…
In the case study, Theresa mentioned, “I’m a 47-year-old divorced woman with three kids and not nearly enough money…an ill mother. A crazy family for another” (Cowan, 2005, p. 41). One of my current clients is around the same age, has three kids, is divorced, has very little money, and cared for her ill father until he passed away. My client even thinks that her whole family is crazy as well. I found it extremely surprising and coincidental that my client had similar concerns as the case study client. However, although they both expressed to have similar concerns, these concerns were superficial to Theresa. Each client, although they come to therapy with similar concerns, once the therapist passes through the superficial issues, the deep-rooted issues appear. Hence, although my client and Theresa express similar concerns that they want to work through, each one have a deep concern for the reason they present these