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

Tracy, a seventh grade girl in the movie Thirteen, provides a glimpse into the dangers of negative adolescent development. She was an honor student who was content playing with Barbies, but she was also desperate for acceptance and affection. Tracy meets Evie, a popular girl who engages in destructive behavior. Tracy’s only goal becomes emulating Evie, and she embarks on a path of self-destruction. Tracy, who is in early adolescence, is at the peak of her most critical developmental stage (Capuzzi & Gross, 2014), and is willing to do whatever it takes to belong. Throughout the movie, we see her struggle with low self-esteem, anger, dysfunctional relationships, self-harm, and substance abuse. Vernon (2009), discusses Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, which can be utilized with Tracy. Vernon (2009) notes that when needs of safety, belonging, love, and respect are not met, children respond emotionally, cognitively, physically, and socially, depending on their developmental level. The degree of development also impacts how children react to common developmental difficulties and situational problems. Vernon (2009) adds, “…how children interpret and respond to basic needs, as well as typical and situational problems, can result in various self-defeating behaviors” (p.3). Applying this to Tracy, we see that her basic needs of

Based on this, we saw how Tiffany and Pat’s unconscious affects their disorders in a psychodynamic perspective. Their genetics, childhood experiences, and Big Five personality traits explain the biological and trait perspectives of their disorder. Finally, the sociocultural perspectives on their disorders are the effects of their environmental experiences, and look at the environmental factors. I believe the theoretical approaches can be used to look at Pat and Tiffany’s personalities by accurately giving a description of who they are, and why they are who they

This case study pertains to Dan Lee, a 24-year-old Chinese-American, who is a pre-med student who is obtaining counseling for his emotional issues. In previous years’ doctors diagnosed Dan Lee with auditory processing disorder, which could be a contributing factor to his current emotional issues. Dan Lee’s behavior is related to his interpersonal relationships pertaining to family, friends, and school; causing him to experience anxiety, tension, sadness and anger (Hutchison, 2015). He has placed himself in such an authoritative role when caring for his families well-being that he has unconsciously forgotten the understanding of social well-being. There are two major factors that are contributing to Dan Lee’s stress and irrational behavior; his drive and thought pattern, which relates to Sigmund Freud’s, Psychoanalytic Theory (Freud, 1899).

 Sylvia is 28 years old, stay-at-home mother raising two small children with her husband, who travels frequently for his work. Sylvia finds herself feeling bored and isolated a lot of the time. She finds herself overeating and then feeling bad about her weight gain. She has trouble sleeping at night and takes frequent naps during the day. She has persistent thoughts that she is an unlikable person and cannot manage to do anything right. She feels guilty that she is not a good enough mother to her children. When her husband is home, she questions if he loves her and secretly wonders if

Tamika comes to a psychology clinic with complaints of poor concentration. As she was talking with the psychologist, she spoke very rapidly and it was difficult to follow her train of thought. Tamika reported that she felt invincible and had not slept for three days since she had been very busy with various tasks. She also reported that in the past, she had frequently experienced periods of time that she felt “down”.

This disorder is a symptom that is observed in adults and its initial onset, in the 30s. This mental disorder creates significant impairment in social, academic, occupational, or other areas of daily functioning (Dziegielewski, 2015, p.522). More so, the clients emphasize how she has been visiting her parents for the past 15 years, which is a big stress for Caroline and her family. The client stated that if she missed the Sunday dinner in her parent’s house they will never forgive her, meaning such action or plan is totally unacceptable. This particular issue is one of the biggest stress in Caroline life at present, because she is trying to please her elderly parents by keeping with a tradition that is causing more problem in her family.

Mary, a 31-year-old single mother of three children (ages 9, 5, and 3) has been seeing Annabelle, a mental health counselor at a community mental health center for about 4 months. She has become increasingly anxious over past few weeks and reports that she feels frightened all the time, is unable to sleep through the night, and worries that “something horrible is going to happen.” She also admits to having a “couple of drinks” during the evening several times a week. Mary shared during her last session with Annabelle that she is very worried that she is a horrible mother and is afraid that her children will be taken away and placed in foster care.

Since last review Shonquasia has depressive symptoms has reduce a little. Shonquasia depression can be seen in her body language, demeanor, behavior, and verbal expression. Shonquasia continues to verbalize feeling of depression due to self-image, situation at home and in school settings. Shonquasia seldom wat o engage in productive activity, and has no friends. Shonquasia spend most of her time lock in her room and stat that she hate being around people because they are too judgmental. Shonquasia has family support but pulls away from the family due to person fear. Shonquasia has not mad significant progress with her behavior in home and school setting, due to the fact that she is not taking her medication as proscribe. Per mom, Shonquasia

Ms. Taylor is a 14 year old female who presented to the ED via LEO under IVC by Daymark Recovery Services. Per documentation Ms. Taylor has been experiencing auditory hallucination, visual hallucinations, homicidal ideation, and suicidal ideation without a specific plan. At the time of the assessment Ms. Taylor reports no current thought of suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation, or symptoms of psychosis. She noted while at Daymark today a dark figure was present in the room with white eyes. Ms. Taylor reports the dark figures tell her to harm her parent and herself. She stated, "I have had thoughts of torturing my parents until they can't handle it anymore, until they die." She continues to state, "The black figure have told me to wait until

Looking at the symptoms such as anxiety attacks, overeating, fear of accomplishment, fear of abandonment, and so forth—can be interpreted as outward manifestations of unconscious conflicts that have their origins in childhood experiences and defensive reaction to these experiences that are necessary to her as a child.

Sean is a 19- year-old single African American male with an extensive history of emotional and behavioral problems. These problems include excessive showering and head washing, rituals for dressing and studying, as well as compulsive need for specific item placement. Sean’s behaviors have become so consuming that he withdrew from college his freshman year. His condition has been declining over the past few years. He continually isolates himself from his friends and family, refuses meals, and neglects his personal appearance. While attending school, Sean’s behaviors had become so time-consuming and debilitating that he feared his hygiene rituals would interfere with his studying and he therefore quit showering all together. In addition to not

There are many psychological aspects to this story. Some questions that I am going to discuss

Lanesha is a 12 year old girl that has been having trouble with her temper and her anger in almost every aspect of her daily life. Her medicine and compliance to her treatment plan are no different. As a teenager, she does not want to continually be hassled and bothered. So to avoid this she constantly is telling the providers lies, or in her mind, “what they want to hear.” (http://support.mchtraining.net/national_ccce/case1/Flash/activity1.html). Lanesha has a sense of neglect from her grandmother because she states that she want to act like everything is fine as to appease her Grandmothers temperament. Marietta, also shares in frustration but also has a great deal of added stress as she also cares for her 10 year old grandchild and also her older ailing mother. Marietta exudes many of the qualities spoken by Dr. Horky in her presentation; her own age is taking a toll on her ability to care for Lanesha, she is worried about Lanesha. Due to Lanesha’s age and behavior however, Marietta is experiencing depression and grief. Almost portrays a sense that she has given up, like she has done all that she can. (Horky, n.d.). Other socioeconomic issues are in Marietta’s forefront.

Tanya’s aunt, who she lives with stated that she Tanya has a history past history of bipolar and refuses to take medication. She stated that Tanya has a history of masturbation, bizarre behaviors such as touching her own feces, screaming when no one else is around, and refusing to bathe for the past