Case Study Conference Protocal : Case Conference Protocal

Beth was an interesting woman to say the least. She was very talkative and had an eccentric personality. She might have been a smidge under the influence on this very normal afternoon but she was still a nice and fun person to talk to. Ashley and Kevin and I got to know her and all about her family all too well sitting at the bar at TGI Friday’s.

The first focus will be on Calvin and Beth's marriage. They have not been communicating well for a long time. Calvin has now realized Beth is not quite who he thought she was. Beth has chosen to leave when she was confronted. In many ways their reintegration would be more like an initial integration. There root causes which we would like to address are: they do not really know each other, they do not know how to value each other, and they do not communicate well.

Basic Demographics (age, gender, socio demographic status, etc): This section should include much detail about every client/participant in the interaction,

I then asked her about the most common problems the clients face, and problems she encounters while working with clients and the agency she works for. For the clients, she stated, that the most common problem or challenge was depression. She stated that it was either clinical depression or situational depression. Next, for herself as a case manager she said, that she mainly gets frustrated with the staff and office politics, not the clients. For example, she said, “too many Indians and not enough chiefs”. Lastly, I then asked her about the issue of professional fatigue. She stated, that she has a lot of clients and her personal life does suffer, but she enjoys what she does so she thinks the work is worth it. Another problem is the issue of boundaries. She stated, that she does not have a

In working with a client like Nate McCall it would first be necessary to address our ethnic differences. I'm not sure that he would be willing to open up to me since I am white, but he definitely would not if the issue of race was not talked about. I think it would be necessary to talk about oppression as well. The pervasiveness, restricting, hierarchical, and internalized features of oppression would definitely need to be discussed. Institutional oppression would also need to be addressed. I would try to empathize with Nate and really understand his worldview. I think I would probably try to do some existential work with him and help him to discover meaning in his life. I think that learning to choose what

“Sentara-backed company has been chosen to manage 200,000 Medicaid enrollees across 23 Alabama counties” (“About Sentara Healthcare”). The hope of this relationship will be to provide Medicaid recipients with services across numerous health systems in the north and west central Alabama counties. Alabama has approved a new delivery model for Medicaid within the state. This partnership with Sentara will help provide a leg up for the Medicaid system because Sentara has “experience in providing managed care services to Medicaid enrollees in Virginia as well as a similar mission of a long successful track record in serving Medicaid patients (“About Sentara Healthcare”).

Throughout the movie, Beth neglects any mention of any past tribulations the family had gone through and completely masking any emotions regarding the topics. She practiced the inate flight instinct of avoiding the problem in hopes that it will go away. Although it may have been easier for her in the moment, it caused much more tension in the long run. If she had had a face to face conversation or sought out familial therapy, much

Long Range Goal for Problem #4: Help the client build interpersonal relationships with several people.

Meanwhile, Grace keeps an online blog/diary of her rollercoaster experiences of searching for love online. After some excruciating dates, Grace begins to wonder whether Plato’s idea of ‘the one’ exists but on the upside, her relationship with Beth is more established and a happy one.

Instead of keeping this to herself, she shares it with her mom's friend Luke. In paragraph 2 page 46 , he tells her that as an artist it is her gift "to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things, it doesn’t make you crazy just different" . That's pretty much how her journey pans out too.

Beth was raised by the mob. She’s never gotten herself into a situation her family couldn’t drag her out. So when those closest to her wind up dead or missing, she’s left to her own devices. She quickly realizes how hard it is to survive on her own.

Bipolar disorder can have major effects on relationships and the ability for a person to maintain a long term relationship. There are many reasons that relationships can fall apart because of bipolar disorder. It can cause problems due to things such as lack of communication and a lack of understanding. Other things that can cause a relationship to have problems are things such as trust issues which can be caused from paranoid thoughts which can be a part of living with bipolar disorder. It can also lead to loss of relationships due to insecure and unstable feelings and emotions. Confusion can come from the lack of communication and understanding and this confusion can lead to feelings of tension and frustration between the relationship. The

The author, Kay Jamison talks about her life with bipolar I disorder in her book, An Unquiet Mind. Jamison was a Caucasian woman who at the age of forty seven wrote this memoir. Currently she is seventy years old and dealing with her disorder. She spent her life moving around a lot because her father was an air force pilot. She grew up with an older brother who was very caring and an older sister that she bumped heads with. Kay’s father was a really delightful person. His emotions were contagious. Her mother was always helpful and caring for her family no matter how busy she was. Kay’s parents were supporting in all her interests; such as pets, poetry, science, and medicine. When she was fifteen, things took a turn and her family moved to California for her father’s new job as a scientist. Her father began to show worsening signs of depression. Around the age of sixteen, Kay realized that she was having mood swings that were very drastic. In her senior year of high school, she had her first manic depressive attack. She started her undergraduate study at UCLA dealing with her constant depression and manic episodes. As she was studying as an undergraduate, Kay began to take an interest in psychology. She pursued her PhD in psychology at UCLA again studying mood disorders. As a graduate student, she also began working in the psychiatric ward and dealing with marital problems in her first marriage. She was slowly spiraling out of control until she had a terrifying

She made me feel like I was right there with her. She used vivid words to describe her surrounding, especially the main one, the wallpaper. When she described the way the wallpaper, bed, and floors were, I began to understand that something wasn’t right with what was going on. Her words made you come to an understanding that she wasn’t on a vacation, yet she was somewhere locked up. I thought that her friends and family did a bad job at making it seem like a getaway. “At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars!” (Gilman) this is the exact placement where I realized she was definitely not in paradise, yet more like a cell. I didn’t believe she should have been placed in a cell like site, I thought she should have been somewhere like home. Maybe should would’ve had a better way of getting

There are issues of confidentiality, understanding what’s in the client’s best interest, the rights of the client, and using the techniques to best assess the client. It is also important to maintain a professional relationship with clients.