Eric, a 24-year-old Caucasian male, living in an apartment with his mother and brother who has recently self-diagnosed himself and seeking therapy. The correlation between Eric’s symptoms and family relationships, who are “constantly attacking him...” and “cannot do anything right in their eyes” an explanation for persistent anxiety, phobia, and hallucinations. Client states that these symptoms have been ongoing for one month, which has led to interrupting clients work place and social interactions. Eric has become hopeless about his future with the lack of family’s support of his career path and paranoid that his peers plan on harming him. Based on these symptoms, Eric needs to undergo psychiatric evaluation for major depression which causes
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Eric’s auditory hallucinations are insults directed at him leading to thoughts of feeling defective and inadequate. The client lives with mother and brother and it’s reported that they occasionally argue as well as feeling like he’s being attacked and cannot do anything right in their eyes, resulting in defeat and failure. Normative social influence is the approval and disapproval as well as meeting the expectations of others (mother) — Eric cannot gain approval from his mother and in result experiences defeat and failure as well as a hopeless future. Eric is 24 and working in a mailroom, not exactly every parents wish for their kid to work in a low-income career field. This explains the disapproval from his mother. The result, Eric feels hopeless and tying back to his symptoms. The client is also dealing with emotional distress, deals with anxiety and therapeutically the best option is cognitive-behavioral therapy. This will get the client to carefully reevaluate the fears (acrophobia), make sense of the experiences, get him to think hopefully, as well as control his anxiety at work and social interactions. Family therapy is encouraged to help explore negative family dynamics and patterns to be able to communicate and result
Eric’s auditory hallucinations are insults directed at him leading to thoughts of feeling defective and inadequate. The client lives with mother and brother and it’s reported that they occasionally argue as well as feeling like he’s being attacked and cannot do anything right in their eyes, resulting in defeat and failure. Normative social influence is the approval and disapproval as well as meeting the expectations of others (mother) — Eric cannot gain approval from his mother and in result experiences defeat and failure as well as a hopeless future. Eric is 24 and working in a mailroom, not exactly every parents wish for their kid to work in a low-income career field. This explains the disapproval from his mother. The result, Eric feels hopeless and tying back to his symptoms. The client is also dealing with emotional distress, deals with anxiety and therapeutically the best option is cognitive-behavioral therapy. This will get the client to carefully reevaluate the fears (acrophobia), make sense of the experiences, get him to think hopefully, as well as control his anxiety at work and social interactions. Family therapy is encouraged to help explore negative family dynamics and patterns to be able to communicate and result