Marissa is 25 years old and she feels as if life is too hard for her and she wants to give up, she attempted suicide twice but was unsuccessful because of her mother. The first time she drank some of her mother’s sleeping pills, her mother found her unconscious on the bathroom floor and rushed her to the hospital. The second time she tried to kill herself in the yard and once again was stopped by her mother. When her mother asked her why she is trying to kill herself she kept telling her “you don’t know what its like to live with what happened to me as a child” . Question: As a therapist analyze Marissa and explain how would you treat her (include therapeutic techniques that you will use and explain why)

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2. Marissa is 25 years old and she feels as if life is too hard for her and she wants to give up, she attempted suicide twice but was unsuccessful because of her mother. The first time she drank some of her mother’s sleeping pills, her mother found her unconscious on the bathroom floor and rushed her to the hospital. The second time she tried to kill herself in the yard and once again was stopped by her mother. When her mother asked her why she is trying to kill herself she kept telling her “you don’t know what its like to live with what happened to me as a child” .

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