Case Study : Transference, Reactive Attachment Disorder

The case of Marci a 22-year-old female college student has several significant psychological, biological, social, and spiritual issues.

Reactive Attachment Disorder is a common infancy/early childhood disorder. Reactive attachment disorder is located under the trauma- and stressors-related disorder section of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), Fifth Edition. It is normally diagnosed when an infant or child experience expresses a minimal attachment to a figure for nurturance, comfort, support, and protection. Although children diagnosed with reactive attachment disorder have the ability to select their attachment figure, they fail to show behavioral manifestation because they had limited access during the early developmental stage. Some disturbed behaviors include diminished or absence of positive emotions toward caregiver. In addition,

Using a symptom checklist the client is currently experiencing the following: sad moods, crying, easily irritated, feeling sluggish, feeling on edge, difficulty concentrating and making decisions, loss of interest in things she once

Psych: The patient states that she is depressed due to “falling apart” and anxious about dying. Denies suicidal thoughts, memory loss and confusion.

My act of courage is when I found out that i had Reactive Attachment Disorder. You can get this from being abused when you were a little kid or a baby. Well in my case I was abused by my mom for two years. She abused me since the day I came home from the hospital till the I was almost three years old and got put into foster care so I got away from the person who was abusing me for a couple of month's. I just found out on January tenth, 2017 at a meeting that I had to go to that I had Reactive Attachment Disorder. You can also get this from being separated from your parents for a while and I was whenever I was put into foster care I was separated from my real mom for the rest of my life and my sister's and brother's dad died when I was

In order to fully understand the narrator’s condition, it is essential to fully understand who she is, what her context is, and the mental disorder she is suffering from. Through her secret diary, we learn about the narrator’s experiences as a newlywed suffering from Postpartum Depression and the unhelpful advice of her husband John, who doubles as her doctor. The mental disorder the narrator is dealing with is called Postpartum Depression; a mental illness affecting 1 in 7 women in the United States alone, causing symptoms such as anxiety, excessive crying, changes in appetite, harmful or “scary thoughts,” and many more of the unusual actions portrayed by the narrator in her journal (“Postpartum Depression”). These symptoms are evident

Due to the extreme changes in Vanessa’s life, the therapist has chosen to administer the Beck’s Depression Inventory (BDI-II), as well as Beck’s Anxiety Inventory Tests (BAI). Both tests will determine if the client’s feelings in the past week to two weeks are symptoms of either depression or anxiety. Depending on her score on the BDI-II, she could be experiencing minimal, mild, moderate, to severe depression. The BAI will indicate whether the client is experiencing minimal, mild, moderate, to severe anxiety. These tests should help the therapist in providing the best treatment plan for the

This paper is a review of how attachment disorders were first defined in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders (DSM) in 1980, and how the descriptions have evolved over the past 30 years of research efforts which have provided new insights into the disorder. The main attachment disorder discussed is Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD), that has recently been expanded to include a new diagnosis term called DSED – Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder. In order to provide effective therapeutic interventions to children who may suffer from RAD, the professionals they come in contact with on a regular basis must be provided the skills to recognize the common indicators of the disorder as early as possible in a child’s development. RAD, if left undiagnosed, can have devastating effects throughout the lifespan for the individuals who suffer from it.

Imagine one moment you’re outside playing football in the yard with your little brother, then in a split second something triggers him and fills him with an uncontrollable rage that will have you scared of someone in your own family. This is because my little brother Ty suffers from Reactive Attachment Disorder and like many other foster kids Ty was neglected by his birth parents and then did not establish an appropriate bond with a caregiver. To people unaware of Ty’s mental illness he may seem like a normal 16 year old that spends time with his family and enjoys working on his dirtbikes. What the people don’t see is the anger that fills him from when things don’t play out the way he wants them to. Ty’s triggers usually come from when something doesn’t go the way he wanted them to, in his mind things need to play out exactly how he wants them to and if they don’t then the result is not a pleasant sight.

Around this time last year, a patient named Monica Geller walked into my office. The patient was a twenty two years old young women living in New York with her brother and group of friends. My first impression of her was that she seemed like a very normal young nice lady with nothing out of the ordinary about her. However, Monica was very distressed about her condition for the past couple of months now. She explained to me that her days are filled with anxiety and worry over every little detail in her life. Monica is obsessed with how her apartment should look and in what order everything should be in. It was only recently, when her roommate redecorated the place, that she believed she had a serious problem. Monica described feeling very

Leanne came to the office because she stated that her depression had worsened in recentmonths and that she was feeling nervous and panicky almost daily. She is 31 years old. Leanne

As I carefully analyze Susan’s case study, I have diagnosed her for having major depression. This is because as I’m reading her case study her sister indicates that Susan is wasting her life by staying locked up in her poorly lit house, isolating herself from the world while experiencing extreme sadness. Susan attended a mental health clinic in South Florida where she is interviewed on how she is feeling. In order for you to have major depression you must betray a depressive mood or loss of interest in nearly all activities. Likewise, the individual should experience at least 4 additional symptoms. In her case study I have found at least 9 symptoms present that help back up why I’m diagnosing her for major depression. While visiting the mental

on the clinical solutions that I could offer to Angie. Different methods are used in the assessment of the attachment disorders. Most clinicians have adopted the indices to determine the bonds between the various subjects (Milteer et al., 2012). The indices would help me identify the existence of oppositional behavior, the intensity of the conflict, and the duration of the disturbance Angie has gone through. Additionally, they would help me generalize the dysfunction, identify negative attitudes in responding to requests, passivity while interacting with her friends, ineffectiveness as well as the lack of patience while handling problems, and overly compliant trends.

The theory of attachment was originally developed by John Bowlby, a British psychoanalyst who was attempting to understand the extreme anguish experienced by infants who had been estranged from their parents. Attachment is the term developmental psychologists use to describe the emotional bond between infants and one or more adults. Attachment is like a security blanket. It allows infants to venture out and explore, returning to the adult as a place of protection. It is a building block for future relationships and for the development of the child 's personality. Most infants display a secure attachment: a balance of exploration and play with the desire to remain near their mothers or

In the article titled An Attachment Theoretical Framework for Personality Disorders explores how John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth’s attachment theory provides a coherent perception of “intrapsychic and interpersonal” (2013) aspects of personality disorders, such as antisocial personality disorder. Adverse attachment is often at the root of most antisocial personality disorders. This theoretical groundwork pairs breadth and parsimony to the conceptualization of Bowlby by suggesting that because of the durability of working models, attachment behavior in adolescence and adulthood is an unequivocal continuation of infant attachment behavior. Attachment beyond infancy is evaluated by using instruments, such as The Adult Attachment Interview (AAI). The AAI involves assessing the internal working models developed during earlier in life, however it does not seek to extract objective memories of past attachment connected events; instead it endeavors to assume strategies for maintaining the attachment system through the assessment of the individual’s narrative of childhood attachment experiences. The security is analyzed by the individual to determine the coherence of his or her depiction of attachment encounters and well it incorporated into specific memories for a broader understanding the parent-child relationship (Levy, Johnson, Scala, Temes, Clouthier, 2015).