Case study
John is a 58 year old man who develops depressive symptoms of low mood, pessimistic thoughts about self, world and future, suicidal ideation, feelings of worthlessness/hopelessness, sadness and emptiness, low self-esteem, lack of energy, persistent rumination, inability or failure to find pleasure in activities which were initially pleasurable (Anhedonia), paranoid and delusional beliefs /ideations or thoughts. John had experienced these symptoms for more than two months before he attempted to kill himself by taking an overdose of paracetamol which bought over the counter following the death of his wife.
He was referred to a mental health ward (hospital) for assessment and treatment of psychotic depression under section 3 of the mental health (MHA) (1983, 2007) Legislation and was admitted for treatment. Whilst in hospital, he was prescribed anti-psychotic and anti-depressant medication and was discharged. He was re-admitted to hospital following relapse.
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He had a normal childhood with loving and caring parents. Both parents died early before John completed his University degree. His father was once diagnosed with depression before he died. John later got married to his long time girl friend who he claimed was his only hope when he lost his parents. They both had two children together a boy and girl who are also married with their own children. John and his daughter live in the same town and they both have good father-daughter relationship. John’s son lives in another part of the country and barely visit him because of family and work commitments. John was an industrious, dedicated, caring father and
A long-term, chronic disorder in which a person accepts the desires and needs of others. Yet, in order to deal with stress or frustration, the person in actuality passively resists them, creating them to become increasingly hostile and angry.
There are different therapies that are used to help treat those who have suicidal ideation, behaviors, and attempts. For individuals to be successful in recovery one or more treatments may be necessary. Succession of recovery is a group effort and wiliness between individuals, family, friends, psychiatrists, and therapists. A traditional anti-depressive medication treatment is started to help reduce negative thoughts (Rovick, 2016). These medications increase serotonin levels in the brain to increase happier thoughts. However; depending on the individual, multiple medications are prescribed to target each symptom displayed. In some cases mood stabilizers or anti-psychotics are needed in correlation with the anti-depressants. Individuals with depression and PTSD are prescribed a SSRI and a medication to target the PTSD. Medications do not work quickly, the average time for depressive
Finding the right person for this design project did not start out smooth. Initially, I started out with 4 potential clients, first volunteer was not comfortable to share her personal issues affects her to sleep, second volunteer stopped responding to me, third volunteer resident in Japan, and due to her profession my last volunteer has a really busy
John's life seemed to be one major drama after another; he didn't have a good male role model as a kid, and it seems he never was able to get on track. What was amazing about his life was the number of problems that he seemed to get into and how he wriggled out of them (with the help of a friendly person who just happened to meet him) only to run into more problems.
4. In a well-designed study, what does it mean to say there is a statistically significant difference between groups?
List three things you learned in each module. Module 1 a. The humanistic perspective, developed by psychologist Carl Rogers, focuses around the client and includes unconditional positivity for the patient. It strongly revolves around a person's emotional sense of self. b.
His father John was a veteran who participated in World War I and worked as an auto repair machinist, but the father wasn’t as innocent as everyone thought it seemed. He also had a terrifying temper and was a very abusive alcoholic that mistreated and “berated” his family but Gacy was his main target. He didn’t have a good relationship with Gacy at all. The mother tried her hardest to protect john from his father but it was only so much she could do, he abused her as well. childhood was very ruff for someone his age suffering deeply from being molested by a family friend, along with his ill health which prevented him from doing well at school. he lacked good behavior and was overweight and was often mocked at by his neighboring bullies. Gacy family issues interfered with school. He dropped out of school his senior year leaving his family home and fleeing to Las Vegas working as a mortuary attendant in Nevada where he came upon a strange incident that happened one day while working--- he hugged one of the dead bodies and was very terrified and confused all at
Although John struggles with the questions of life like any adolescent, it is his sense of and desire for self-esteem and his ability to build relationships that motivates and buffers him against "the negative emotions that occur when self-verification is allow to continued interaction and in structural arrangements during periods of disruption and change" (Cast). Being the oldest can be tough and in my family we believe that the good people always get to the hardest time, even though john values are deeply ingrained and he views himself as a sinner. Me and my sister have one mom and two different Fathers, the youngest occur to be the most spoiled children. In example, my mom would pay closer attention to my little sister and pay me none, and she goes to church every Sunday and to sing in the choir and still struggles with her religion. Growing up without a father a child’s life can be rough, because my mom had to make decision for my dad absences.
Presenting Problem: Jamie is exhibiting maladaptive and maladjusted behaviors with distorted thoughts. Jamie has a compulsive need to touch doorknobs stating “he cannot focus on anything else and he is “happy when he can touch a doorknob and walk through the door.” Jamie feels that he must touch each doorknob twice so that he does not have “bad thoughts.” When asked about his thoughts Jamie said: "doorknobs bother him and he does not like to think about them.” Jamie then explains he gets “really upset when someone tries to stop him from touching doorknobs.
Cognitive dissonance- cognitive dissonance is when someone does or say something that is wrong but tries to convince themselves that what they are doing is good. Usually it’s someone trying to convince mostly themself that what they are doing is “ok”. In the sentence above Stella uses cognitive dissonance when she is starting her project the week is this due, this is because she convinced herself that what she is doing is okay although it’s not because now she is most likely stressing. Diffusion of responsibility- Diffusion of responsibility is when usually someone does not take the blame for something, when other people are around the usually blame the other person. This is mostly because the person who responsible does not believe they are and instead blames someone else.
Presently, John and his 3 siblings reside in Canada but have little communication with each other. In the interview, John described his relationship to be tense with all of his siblings and would not go into further detail. The student noted that John’s body language became tense and reserved describing the cause to be an estranged fight. His dad passed away in 1996 at 81 years old and his mom passed away in 2011 at 76 years of age. John has two sons aged 34 and 30 years of age from his
The concern about life is a main human characteristic. No matter if his concern is concentrated in himself or in persons or things that surround him and constitute his environment, everybody wants to know why people, himself included, behave the way they behave. Everybody, also, wants to improve his behavior, so as to live in harmony with himself and the society.
The patient expressed she has no current suicidal ideation or homicidal ideation. However, she admitted to suicidal ideation in the past, right after her breakup, approximately two months ago. She expressed that she wanted to hurt herself and had a plan on how to do so, but did not think she could go through with it. Her plan was to overdose by taking her mother’s
Mary like many teens, love to hang out with her friends. Due to her popularity at her school, she is usually invited to weekend parties. Mary appears to be a smart student who is at the top quarter of her class. However, this did not stop her from taking a dare to jump off the second floor balcony.
1. In my opinion Lisa’s preference for more ¨masculine¨ toys is affected by her genes, therefor it is referring to nature. According to Daryl Ben’s theory on the power point of sexual behavior, slide number 15, it is explained there how other children prefers activities that are more typical of another gender. Lisa’s temperament is influenced by biological variables like her genetics, that is why she prefers to play with certain toys like for example trucks.