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Solomon Enow Walden University Social work HBSE SOCW-6200-25 September 23, 2023

WK9Assgm: My client is a 26 year old homeless Hispanic female who came to the clinic and reported that she has been feeling lazy, lack of interest, not able to focus and does not know what to do with himself. She indicated that she stays in her car but sometimes sleeps at her older sister’s section 8 housing. She indicated that they lost their parents in a car accident when she was 9 years old. She reported that at her sister’s section 8 housing, she spends all her time in her room, said she is scared, does not like going out, and claims to be angry and agitated all the time. She indicated that she is not happy, she is always tired, has problem sleeping and does not think she is good enough to be at her current job. According to (Owens-King, 2019), social work scholars have written about the negative effects trauma exposed clients have on mental health professionals, especially social workers. Owens-King’s (2018) study explores the factors that place social workers at risk and guard against secondary traumatic stress. The client reported that she got a new job as a social worker after she lost her last job due to stress, missing projects and having conflicts with coworker. She reported that she has been calling in sick and has been missing work. She stated she was rape but will not elaborate on it. My client reports history of anxiety and depression many years ago. He also complained of headache and sometimes feels like he cannot breathe. He told me his doctor told him that he may be suffering from worries and stress. My client is diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) due to her history of a stressful past (PTSD). She mentioned being rape but did not elaborate, she is complaining of being afraid and gets easily angry about things in her past. She has been attending therapy for a number of years and has experimented with different approaches to treatment over the course of those years. She is now participating in individual treatment as well as attending a trauma-focused therapy group at the same time. She is being treated for PTSD, anxiety, and depression with medications currently. The article “The impact of depression and PTSD symptom severity on trauma memory” by Asbaugh et al., (2018) is a research study that has been peer reviewed and might contribute to a better understanding of my clients who has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The article examines “examined how symptoms of PTSD and depression influence the phenomenological characteristics of trauma memories” (Asbaugh et al., 2018). The information in this study makes it clear that “trauma memory and symptoms of depression and PTSD” is real and serious. The authors noted that PTSD symptoms predicted trauma memories that were vivid, emotionally intense and negative that has greater sensory details while depression symptoms shared trauma memories that were less coherent and of the distant past. The authors in this study were able to study the interaction between symptoms of PTSD and depression. The article explores how post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may cause changes in the brain that might raise the risk for depression, as well as how depression can make it more difficult to recover from PTSD. The therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has also been shown to be useful in the treatment of depression, as suggested in the article that “symptoms of PTSD and depression independently predict different qualities of trauma memory” (Asbaugh et al., 2018). Because this article examines the influence of trauma memories on the development of PTSD as well as depression, this article may be useful in comprehending the individual's situation because it focuses on the connection between the two conditions.

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