2. the case study and to the current literature.
Select a colleague who was assigned the same client as you.
Contrast your
posts. Support your response by explaining how you might
combine strengths
from each of your posts to provide a better analysis of or
treatment for the client.
[Week 8: Martinez Family]
General Background:
The Martinez family consists of Miguel, Jeannette, Gabby,
Tommy, and Christina
(the adopted daughter of Jeannette’s cousin).
The family’s ethnicity is Hispanic, and both Miguel and
Jeannette come from very
large extended families—many of whom live in the area.
They are Seventh-Day Adventists who are very involved in their
church; they
both hold leadership positions in the church and attend services
multiple times
each week.
Presenting Issues:
Gabby is now 19 years old and has come to see you. She is still
living in her
parents’ home, which she says is “generally ok as long as [she
does] what they
tell [her] to.”
Although she graduated from high school with fairly good
grades, Gabby did not
4. Lucas also shares that the he has no family in the area to help
him with the
children, and he often feels overwhelmed.
Presenting Issues:
John is now 21 years old. He has come to see you because you
were so helpful
to him during his difficult early adolescence. Since then, John
has straightened
out, separated himself from negative influences in his life, and
finished high
school in the top 20% of his class.
John also took college courses while in high school, which
helped him finish
college with a history degree in only three years. After
graduating from college,
John returned to his father’s home. He has not yet found a job,
and as you speak
with him, you learn that he has not really been trying.
John states that employment is “overrated” and that he wants to
explore and
experience more of life before he “settles down into [his] dad’s
life of bills and
obligations.”
John shares that earning a degree only made him realize how
little he really
knows, and he feels ill-prepared for “real life.” He hopes that
his journey of
personal development will help him “find [his] true self” and
inspire him toward his
path in life.
7. development.
The family is Caucasian, of European descent, and agnostic.
Presenting Issues:
It’s been many years since you’ve seen anyone in the Crane
family. You receive
a call from Carol to make an appointment for Olivia (now 19),
who is on a term
break from college.
Carol shares that Olivia has been having a very hard time
adjusting socially and
doesn’t have any friends. Carol is very worried, as Olivia has
seemed “more
depressed than usual.”
When Olivia comes for her appointment, you ask her how
college has been
going. She responds that it’s “just OK,” and that it isn’t what
she thought it would
be. Olivia tells you that everyone she meets is a snob, and all
anyone cares
about is partying.
When you ask if she has made any friends, Olivia responds that
she “[doesn’t]
want to be friends with those people,” adding that she doesn’t
need friends to be
happy.
You shift gears and ask about her classes. Olivia responds that
she “drew the
hardest professors possible” from the random class assignments
and snorts with
9. church.
Presenting Issues:
Jamal (now 23) has come to see you because “[his]
grandmother said [he]
should.”
Jamal has had some difficulty finding and keeping a job since
graduating from
college at the top of his class with a degree in computer science.
He shares that
he has interviewed at quite a few companies but never seems to
make it past the
human resources interview. His grandmother tried to “coach”
him to improve his
interviewing skills, but he says that what she wants him to say
is “stupid” and
doesn’t fit who he is.
Jamal tells you that he knows he is different from many people,
but he always
found his place in college and doesn’t understand why the
“computer geeks in
the real world” won’t hire him. He adds that he is very honest
about his “disability”
and always tells prospective employers that he has Asperger’s
disorder during
interviews.
Jamal adds that the only reason he can come up with for not
getting hired
somewhere is because he’s black and all the decision-makers
are “old-school
white boys.”