An Interview With A Student Intern

The intervention that was implemented was the invitation for the father to participate in the therapeutic sessions with his son and ex-wife. I explained the client’s recent behavior and the subsequent admittance to my agency. I clarified that the client’s behavior worsens after their divorce which is evidenced by the increased disciplinary infractions he received at school. The client also became more combatant and argumentative with his mother and siblings as reported by them. I proposed the idea of meeting for a family therapy session to uncover the cognitive reasons behind the

I do not feel she is an immediate threat to herself; however, without intervention, the potential of threat could increase. By providing directive assistance, combined with client-oriented action steps directed towards establishing a support network and utilizing coping mechanisms, I feel that Jennifer's distress can be decreased, resulting in Jennifer discovering the survivor within her.

Prior to my first interview with my client Bella Rain, I cleared the office of any clutter and made a comfortable setting for us to have our first session. I had also looked over the client’s file to gain a perception (Okun & Kantrowitz, 2015). Noted in the file, she has no medical issues and is reasonable healthy. She does not feel depressed and feels that she is mentally strong. She has not yet decided if counseling is for her, but she felt she had to try. She feels stuck and she feels like she keeps hitting a brick wall when it comes to trying hard not to argue with her two children that are now 22 years old. Her children mean everything to her, they are her pride and joy however, she is afraid that she is going to lose the bond that

Client did not came to the schedule appointment. Therapist received a phone call from client's mother. Mother reported that client was in the hospital as of last night. Mother explained that has been out of control since the weekend; going out with man, provoking mother and sister by cursing, calling them name. Tuesday (7/04/17) night after getting in to an argument with sister, client called the police. The police called EMS but client reported that she would be spending the night at a friend house so client was not taken to the hospital. On 7/5/17 client went back home and it was upset coursing and telling mother that she always take sister side. Client then took a knife an threaten to kill mother and sister and after jumping out of the building.

Meanwhile, I had direct contact with my first client on June 8, 2015. She is a 34-year-old African-American that is from Louisiana living in a women’s shelter. She only has a high school diploma. At the age of eight years old, she learned that her biological father was found murdered. She had postpartum depression, but the psychiatrist's

Client, Jennifer Ray-Spencer was raised by her grandmother on her mother side. Her mother suffers from schizophrenia illness and she believed that Jennifer was a devil child sent to harm her. She hasn’t heard from her mother in 8 years. She in now married with 5 step-children. Only one her step children live with her and her husband. She stated that the step child, Paige is 19 years of age and going to college. She states that Paige really doesn’t notice her because she is to herself. Mrs. Spencer has had a good relationship with her husband up until her Fall Semester this year. She states that her husband has been complaining to her about how she spends too much time with dealing with school work. He feels that she has been school

This led to the client asking the intern for help with housing because she didn’t know where to start. In preparation for the meeting, the social work intern reviewed the file, and spoke with the supervisor about the family. However, both yielded little information about the client. The client was consistently engaged in the conversation during the meeting. She made eye contact, her body language was very open, was very open about her situation and her concerns, shared documentation for some of her issues, and was very receptive to help from the intern and wanted to come back again. Once the meeting was over, the intern researched affordable housing based on the information Dora

The client is a 39 year old, biracial male, who has been diagnosed with substance use disorder, anxiety, and depression. This client had been solely receiving substance abuse treatment, when it was discovered the client had been collecting cans and bottles. Recently, this client has been pacing through the halls more, having trouble sleeping, and engaging in verbal disagreements. These symptoms increased when the client was asked to refrain from collecting cans, and appear to be a manifestation of client’s anxiety. For several years, this client had to care for himself, and later support his family the best he knew how. This client reported being put into the foster care system at a young age, because his mother was also addicted to alcohol

Client met with his counselor because he needed to talk about a situation that he was bothering him. Client has concerns about this relationship and wrote a letter to his girlfriend apologizing for his behavior and wanting to make it work between to the two of them. Client shared that he explain to her the he understands how she could feel abandon and he wants to start a new. The client went on to talk about his family and their addiction. Client discuss the his two sister and father and mother were all addicted. both of the sister got clean and one has became a substance abuse counselor and other one work and well. Client further explain that he his mother went onto a program on the day after he was admitted to a program. The client doesn't

The client’s intellectual functioning would generally be considered moderate by her ability to address the lengthily and heavy intake questions and procedures. Her reality testing is solid without any evidence of distortion or dysfunction and shows no difficulty in her coherence. Her judgment demonstrates strength and empowerment, evidenced by her decision to leave her abusive husband with their daughters while he was at work. The client’s memory and recall are consistent since she kept a log of the abuse within the last year. She has held onto denial for many years, a defense mechanism that has tortured her reality for years; pretending the abuse was not happening and getting worse. Her defense mechanism allowed her to maintain a normal composure and assist her in performing daily functions. Her self-concept includes, “feelings of worthlessness, inadequacy, and helplessness” which “pervade her functioning in negative ways”. (Hepworth, Larsen, Rooney, Strom-Gottfried, 2011, p. 209) Some of that damaging thinking has led her to stay in the abusive relationship because she feels that is what she deserves and that it is too late to start any other relationship, let alone marriage, over. She stated that she was, “not suicidal”, (Client, F, 2015) but the last episode of physical abuse done by her husband, was being choked, leaving the client at risk of possible long lasting physical damage.

The client has been in the shelter for longer than five years before I start working in this place. A 55 years old women with her daughter who was evicted of second hand robbery. The mother receives Social Security and the family has been on Public Assistance all their life. The mother has been diagnosed with bipolar, schizophrenic and chronic depression. As per the rules and regulations of the DHS shelter system this particular client could not stay with us. The shelter system was overcrowded and there were not space for someone with those special conditions. Thankfully the client was able to cope with the issue. They have never been able to obtain an opportunity for an apartment. Since our first meeting, the family was not happy to work with me, because I am Latino and she is black African American. I did not mind the racial comments or any of the offensive comments made by the client. After all the unpleasant meeting I had with them, The client finally obtained a Section 8 voucher, which is a Federal rental subsidy. It was challenging for me as a Housing Specialist to relocate this client, because she was not happy with the system, neither with me as her Social worker. There were more negative qualities than positives about her. However, school taught to work with the strengths of the family. The outcomes of my attitude: client recognized she needed to move out, she accepted that they needed

Intake: A fellow Christian (female) is seeking help due to a past traumatic experience of physical spousal abuse. As a consequence, succeeding relationships have failed due to client inability to trust and let go of her prior experience. The client has confessed that she has not been able to forgive her ex-husband for the suffering that he had caused her. As a result, the client had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and social anxiety. The client express her desire of moving on in order to find someone to love and that will love her. The client would love to find someone to get marry and spend the rest of her life with that person.

Since the client is a minor her mother is the person that is supposed to sign the consent along with the client to grant permission of services. The client shared her concern that if her mother knew of services she would terminate them or further abuse the client. The social worker made the decision that it would inflict less harm to have the client sign the consent form.

Tiffany recently separated from her husband, and he has now become abusive towards her and her daughter. She states that he hits her for multiple reasons which include if he thinks she is with someone else, and if he feels that she is dressed inappropriately. He has also been physically and verbally abusing her 5 year old daughter. Her ex-husband is extremely obsessive, and has issues with anger. Along with his anger, he struggles with drugs and alcohol. Mrs. Maxwell admitted that the last time he physically abused her and her daughter received occurred the night before our session. At the time of the abuse Mr. Maxwell was drunk, as he usually is. She was referred to me for assistance in her divorce, and finding a job and shelter.

I assumed care for my client on February 16, 2016, after she was referred to me by her previous social worker, Ms. Mariah Weiss, who was unable to continue treating the client due to a medical emergency that required Ms. Weiss to be hospitalized for several months. The client is an African American youth, aged sixteen, who currently resides in temporary housing in Harlem, New York. It is important to note that the client and I have different backgrounds, cultures, and family of origins. I am a white, middle class, thirty-seven-year-old mother with a Master’s degree, and a family of origin with married parents where there was plentiful access to food, clothing, safe housing, and education. My client, however, has lived with chronic food and resource scarcity, has survived multiple forms of trauma and abuse, has limited reading and writing proficiency, and is currently a mother of two children as a result of incest, one of whom has Down Syndrome. The client and I met at her scheduled appointment at the New Horizons Agency, a community based health center for both medical and behavioral health care. During our visit, I read and explained the consent form to the client and also reviewed client confidentiality, including limitations and exceptions to confidentiality (such as instances where the client is a harm to themselves or to another person, or in instances of abuse). The client then signed the Agency consent form and I performed a Multidimensional