Client's Presentation Of Mental Health Treatment And Therapeutic Supportive Counseling

Katie often felt sad. She would skipped school or stayed in bed quite often. At other times, she felt really happy. She talked fast and felt like she could do anything. Katie suffers from Bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder or manic-depressive illness is a brain disorder that can affect one’s mood and ability to complete tasks. Bipolar disorder in children is under studied for many reasons. These include, lack of awareness and the difference in the disease seen in adults and children that can make it difficult to continue studies. Bipolar disorder has not been well studied despite harmful effects on growth and development in a child.

One of my closest friends during my undergraduate career has a mental illness called bipolar. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, bipolar is defined as a chronic mental illness that causes a range of different shifts in mood, energy, activity occurrence, and the ability to function and carry out the day to day tasks (National Institute of Mental Health, 2016). Bipolar disorder is also known as a manic depressive illness due to the shifts in mood. People with bipolar often experience lows and highs. Research substantiates that there is no clear cause for bipolar, but there are many factors that contribute to the likelihood of a person developing bipolar.

Victoria Maxwell, a comedian, actress, and writer, uses comedy to educate others by sharing from her personal experience of living with bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder, commonly referred to as manic depression, is a mental illness characterized by a fluctuation in behavior or mood, between periods of mania (high) and depression (lows). There are five different types of the disorder: bipolar I didorder, bipolar II disorder, bipolar disorder not otherwise specified, cyclothymic or cyclothymic, and rapid-cycling disorder, each with symptoms that vary according to the length and severity of mania and depression (“NIMH RSS”). Currently, the mental disorder affects almost 6 million Americans (Chillag). Maxwell suffers from bipolar 1, the severest

I became curious about Bipolar Disorder after learning about how this disorder manifests and how much of a range from highs to lows a person can experience with this disorder. In fact, more than 5 million people in the United States have bipolar disorder and about one third of the cases of bipolar disorder begin in adolescence, which means it can begin in childhood, too. The disorder is really difficult to diagnose because the symptoms are relatively common, so suffering individuals will often ignore the symptoms. Bipolar disorder is caused by lack of stability, and can be diagnosed if someone has rapid alternation between manic and depression symptoms. The movie “Mean Girls” (2004) shows how teenage girls change and feel in their social development during their adolescence at school. The characters have many psychological problems, and one of the characters, Gretchen Wieners, has bipolar disorder. Some parts of the movie show that she has taken both sides of an elevated and depressed mood, which fits the description of bipolar disorder, also referred to as ‘manic depression.’ So the movie “Mean Girls” portrays bipolar disorder well in that its symptoms of mania and depression were well matched to the behaviors of character Gretchen Wieners.

Countertransference, which occurs when a therapist transfers emotions to a person in therapy, is often a reaction to transference, a phenomenon in which the person in treatment redirects feelings for others onto the therapist.

Bipolar disorder, manic episode, is represented by persistently elevated or irritable mood and abnormal and persistent increase of goal directed activity or energy that lasts more than a week (DSM 5). Most of the time, the client presents with inflated self-esteem and grandiosity (DSM 5). In addition, only three hours of sleep may be enough for the patient to feel rested because he/she has a drecreased need for sleep (Tracy, 2012). Usually, the person presents with a pressure to talk without taking any break and is seen more talkative than he/she frequently is (DSM 5).

The client is a 46 years old woman whose roles included caring for her siblings and being a mother to her three children. She is very outgoing, loving, and kind and saw the best in her siblings even when they are divided emotionally. Her occupations included attending church, doing laundry, cleaning, visiting friends and family. The family support she received came mainly from her brother who she resides with temporarily due to a surgery to insert a pacemaker. The pacemaker was inserted shortly after she received a terminal diagnosis of an autoimmune disease. In the process to recovery she relied heavily on her social support of church members.

Bipolar disorder is a mental disorder that affects your mood and transmuting sleep, energy, thinking, and behavior in daily life. This disease is also known as Manic Depression or Manic Depressive Disorder. “This disease was found over 100 years ago by Emil Kraeplin who characterized this disease as, “Manic-Depression Insanity”,” (WebMD). Bipolar disorder happens in both genders, but befalls mostly in females. Within the psychological disorder, it is different within each gender. The symptoms and risk factors such as being wretched all the time, lack of self-esteem, genes, and having suicidal thoughts all contribute to affect daily life and some individuals, (mostly women) look for the finest treatments to help ameliorate life.

Throughout the counseling program for clinical mental health in Edinboro University, students will be required to take a course called group processes. In group processes, students will learn the necessary skills and knowledge of counseling in a group setting as a group facilitator. The course will focus on many topics such as 1) personal qualities. 2) world view. 3) beliefs. 4) values. 5) attitudes. 6) multicultural competencies. 7) students’ personal goals. 8) countertransference issues. 9) strengths and weaknesses. And 10) what students’ have learned throughout the assignments and experiences.

Actress Amanda Laura Bynes was born on April 3, 1986 and grew up in Thousand Oaks, California. She is the youngest of three children of Lynn, a dental assistant and office manager, and Rick Bynes, a dentist. Bynes' ancestors immigrated from Ireland, Poland, Russia and Romania, and her maternal grandparents are from Toronto, Ontario. Her father is Catholic and her mother is Jewish (“Amanda Bynes Biography,” 2014). Bynes is interested in illustration and fashion design and acting. Bynes has previously had her own fashion line which has sold nationwide. She left Los Angeles and moved to New York to pursue her fashion dream (Nessif &

A dual diagnosis is when a person presents a severe mental illness like bipolar disorder with a substance use disorder (Halter & Varcarolis, 2014). Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder that can be characterized by either mania or hypomania and depressive episodes (Varcarolis, E, 2005). A manic episode is an elevated expansive or irritable mood lasting for at least 1 week. Hypomania episode is less severe than manic episode lasting for a duration of 4 days. A depressive episode has to be manifested by 5 of the 9 following symptoms: depressed mood, lack of interest or pleasure, significant weight loss, insomnia or hypersomnia, psychomotor agitation or retardation, fatigue, feelings of worthlessness, inability to concentrate and recurrent thoughts of death (Varcarolis, E, 2005). Bipolar disorder has several criteria’s but overall each criteria has either mania or hypomania with depressive episodes.

It seems as though, like day evolves into night, people change and evolve as well. Dianne and I have been working together throughout the course of three sessions. We have built a strong helping relationship and it seems as though Dianne has placed trust in our bond. During our previous sessions, Dianne has disclosed that she is 33 years old and was previously a social work student before she had to pause her schooling. She is a single parent, however her child is in care due her crack cocaine relapse. Dianne suffers from cervical cancer and has also been diagnosed with Bipolar and Multiple Personality syndrome. She explained that she experienced personalities that exhibited anger, addiction, depression and a combination of all three of these. Dianne is also homeless with no source of income. Dianne has also explained that she is originally from Ottawa, where she used to reside with her parents, but has come to Windsor to seek out treatment for her substance abuse problem. At this point in our relationship, Dianne and I will be working towards assessing her current situation, creating a contract, as well as intervention and treatment plans. This will further be analyzed throughout this paper.

The therapist and client relationship is important in effective therapy. The therapeutic relationship must be built upon before any technique and theory will be effective. Communicating real empathy and showing a genuine interest in the client will begin a solid therapeutic foundation. However, the therapist must “have the ability to stay outside the system while maintaining some emotional attachment to its members” (Patterson, Williams, Edwards, Chamow, & Grauf-Grounds, 2009, p. 107). This paper reviews and critiques an interview I recorded of a couple that pertains to clutter building up around the house. The goal of this activity was to seek out information using various questioning techniques and basic interviewing skills, and

I believe that Jamison has bipolar type 1 disorder based on her symptoms and experiences. In her very first manic episode, Jamison displayed 5 of the 7 possible symptoms, accompanied by an abnormal increase in energy, for a manic episode found in the DSM-5: inflated self-esteem, decreased need for sleep, extreme talkativeness, racing thoughts with flight of ideas, and excessive involvement in activities. The DSM-5 requires either elevated mood or increased energy with at least 3 or more symptoms so it is clear that Jamison meets the criteria for mania in this episode. Her other manic episodes, described above, display all symptoms of bipolar disorder and impair her social, cognitive, and occupational functioning. In her first depressive episode

There is no indication she has had a manic or hypomanic episode. Her depression may be complicated by grief due to her father’s death one year ago. Her symptoms seem to get worse after his passing.