Case Analysis: Jennifer Barr's Case Conceptualization Model

Case Conceptualization Jennifer Barr is a female, Caucasian, twenty-year-old college student living in Tallahassee, Florida. Currently, she resides on her own in an apartment, although her mother, father, and brother live locally in their home. Jennifer works as a waitress in a restaurant and is actively enrolled in courses at the college; however, due to recent circumstances, her attendance has declined. Jennifer describes herself as typically having the ability to manage her school responsibilities and as having relatively positive relationships with her professors, co-workers and restaurant manager. She maintains an ongoing relationship with her father, mother, and brother. She describes her relationship with her brother as the closest, her relationship with her mother as intermittently close, although hindered by her father, whom Jennifer has not maintained a close relationship with due to what she perceives as pressure and unrealistic expectations that her father consistently has placed upon her. Jennifer has come to the community mental health center to discuss a situation in which she feels she has been sexually assaulted and possibly even raped, although she hesitates to use this latter word to describe her situation. She expresses her discomfort in having to come to a community mental health clinic, yet she reports that since the incident, she has had trouble sleeping and eating, upholding her work responsibilities, attending her college

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