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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Case Study

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termination has occurred; She feels abandoned by these outside systems upon termination. Janes partner expressed Jane became extremely aggressive after the sudden loss of her previous therapist.
Client and Social Worker Relationship As a social work intern, Alison has the ability meet a variety of clients and learn how to purposely utilize social work practices, social justice, and building allies. Alison is a 30-year-old, Caucasian woman who identifies as being heterosexual. Alison is financially middle-class, stability housed, and is disabled. Alison’s biological father is diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and self-medicated with cannabis for over 30 years. Alison has seen first hand how this illness presents itself in the family system …show more content…

This research made the assessment and treatment planning of Jane flow much smoother. Alison’s social circle is primarily African-American, homosexual women. While the intern is heterosexual, her social circle has taught her aspects of the African-American culture and the culture within the LGBTQ community. The intern does not feel it is currently important, therapeutically, to disclose her sexual orientation to Jane. Alison has a post-traumatic stress disorder diagnosis and a life-time history of trauma. This diagnosis and history of trauma allows for therapeutic empathic understanding, “this ability to see completely through the client’s eyes, to adopt his frame of reference (Rogers, 1980). When Alison asked Jane about her nightmares, Alison asked if the nightmares had fire in them. Jane looked at Alison with a completely blank, sad, face, stared her in the eyes for the first time in the assessment and stated, “I have seen tons of doctors and therapists in my life, you are the only one who has ever known exactly what is in my nightmares before I have even told you.” According to Rogers, empathy consists of several components, being able to adopt the client’s perspective, entering the client’s private perceptual

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