Autumn Family Case Study

Family Assessment The family chosen for this assignment are family friends who agreed to conduct the interview and discuss any health issues they had. Because some of the questions were fairly invasive into their private lives, no names are given. There are five members in the family, and they all participated in the interview. Questions are based on the eleven functional health patterns.

The story brings to the forefront on how parents need to anticipate the family needs and take proactive steps to ensure healthy family dynamics during any stressful or critical situation. A family that has functional dynamics has the ability to offer support, concern and love to each other when a chronic conflict or

Everyone has them, the stories from their family or childhood so deeply ingrained into their psyche that they can recall it in vivid detail years after the event happened. These stories are usually something or someone causes a trauma that effects the storyteller in some profound way. Mimi Swartz contends that “if we only stick to the facts, our past is as skeletal as black and white line drawings in a coloring book. We must color it in” (p.287). Over the years these stories take on a life of their own adding color and emotion that turns the story into a family myth.

She mentioned that the students are going through a lot of emotional issues at home like a divorce and at home bullying. She mentioned that we could possibly add coping skills to the curriculum in some way but is weary about us getting to close to the students since we will be leaving at the end of the semester. Ultimately this seems like the biggest issue that the group feels they can tackle in the amount of time we have to do a project. Helping adjust the curriculum can be not only valuable for them to use with their issues now, but to also prepare for the emotional tolls that can come with being in

Ms. Green is working on developing awareness and understanding of problems and triggers that causes stress in her life. Ms. Green is working towards developing skills and strategies needed to manage and alleviate symptoms/problems including stress management, relaxation skills and coping skills. Ms. Green wants to be able to live more for herself and allow her two sons to

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Planned Interventions / Frequency / Responsible Party: 1. Tyawna will be able to express and articulate emotions when feeling hopelessness, frustration,guilt and lack of concentration from not being with her dauthger. 2. MHS will assist Tyawna in processing distorted thoughts and replace with present healthy thoughts daily. 3. MHS will model appropriate communication to maintain healthy relationships for Tyawna in the home and community daily.

Interventions provided during this service: Individual rehab services were provided. WYP discussed with the client about the CSP objectives. The client is being compliant with his mother (talking to her more, coming home before curfew, going to school, and understanding his mother better), the client is using his copping skills (basketball, deep breathing, and exercising) to decrease his irritable outbursts (throwing objects, yelling, and foul languages), the client's has improved his independent living skills (taking care of his son, going to school, working with his stepfather, playing basketball, and doing chores). WYP assisted the client with practicing his coping skills by randomly commanding the client to use one of his coping skills.

The process of communication and connectedness is enhanced by stimulating both the visual and auditory synapses of the brain. Mrs. Thomas’s feelings of support may be increased by the knowledge of a set time to communicate and being able to see and hear her sons. This approach will also allow her to present herself in a way that may alleviate her feelings of being a burden should she choose to do so. This will also allow her sons to take a more active role in supporting her by providing them a middle ground between phone calls and physical visits. The hope is that this will increase their comfort and exposure with the situation and, therefore, increase their proclivity for physical visits.

The intervention group will be counseled by the primary care provider using MI techniques such as empathic listening,

Mental health and optimal functioning are, of course, very important in any discussion of public health. Depression and more specifically Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) can happen to anyone, and it is important to be treated when experiencing health problems like these. While I have never experienced seasonal depression, its temporal nature and the treatment of the disorder interest me. I researched SAD when I considered studying it as a topic for my undergraduate senior thesis. During the thesis preparation process, I looked at articles about SAD and its common used treatment of light therapy. I recently revisited one of those articles (Rossman, 2010), and the article piqued my interest in writing about how light therapy

QP engaged Maunica in a CBT activity geared towards communication skills. QP explained to Maunica that the activity will help her to improve and knowledge the awareness regarding family communication challenges. QP explained to Maunica what interpersonal communication is and provided an example. QP brainstormed with Maunica the different forms of communication. QP asked Maunica to list some healthy and unhealthy ways of communication. QP asked Maunica to explain the challenges of communication she have with her parents. QP asked Maunica to list some characteristic of good communication. QP discussed with Maunica the communication that works well with her family. QP encouraged Maunica in discussing some of the positive communication she has

My client identified various stressors that resulted in severe social anxiety. Interactions at work were at the forefront of stressors for my client. Her stressors also included unexpected situations in public. Rachel’s had a strong ability to recognize her anxiety and was able to understand what caused her anxiety, she was extremely self reflective. Rachel wanted to be able to one day, lower the level of anxiety she felt in her everyday life. She hoped to develop skills in which she could use to cope with her anxiety and reduce her reliance on her boyfriend in social situations.

-to practice and use positive communication skills with Kaison and their other children. Also, discussing different parenting skills and appropriate discipline methods. Overall, they are participating very well and seemed to be working on improvement.

Participants are able to work on a self-refection "Mask Activity" in which allows the participants to safely look at personal barriers that keep them from being well with themselves, their children, family and others. They are given a “Self-Care Assessment Worksheet” to identify, and discuss self-care areas such as: (Physical, Psychological, Emotional, Spiritual, Work or Professional, and the ability to balance all areas) in which they can work on in order to meet their optimum over all well-being. Purpose: Meet basic needs and provide them with resources in how to prevent a crisis, identify and provide self-care needs as needed. (For example: breathing techniques, stress balls, soothing music, soothing aroma therapy lotions, talking to