Interpersonal Relationships Case Study

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When you turn fourteen or fifteen you are usually entering your freshman year of high school. The transition from middle school to high school can be challenging: there are kids that are older and more intimidating. Some students struggle to find their place and also struggle with their interpersonal relationships. Similarly, when you turn eighteen or nineteen you may go off to college. The same feelings from four years ago come up again: you are thrown into a mix of people from all over the country, all of them are older and seem more intimidating. Finding those interpersonal relationships can be a challenge because being in a new environment, on your own, is overwhelming. In these years, media and social media become a focal point for many …show more content…

No matter how popular you were, you always wanted to fit into a group. If you were not accepted, you could take it personally. You would think something is wrong with your physical appearance, your thoughts and ideas, or even your religion. This could put emotional distress on a person and lead to MDD or an emotional disorder. There is so much pressure to fit in and be cool in high school, that when it doesn’t happen, it is reflected onto you, not the others in the group. In this case study, there were general differences in Janet’s marriage that she would take personally. For example, she spent more money on clothes than her husband. Instead of talking about this behavior, she blamed herself and would over exaggerate the matter until she believe that it was a terrible sin. She automatically thought that the problem originated from her physical being not an issue between two people. This was one aspect of why she developed …show more content…

If you do not fit into a high school group you feel bad about yourself, if you cannot successfully fill all of your roles in college, then you feel inadequate and that you cannot do anything, if you do not look like the model on Instagram you feel fat and ugly and if you had a failed relationship you feel as if nobody can love you again because you are not ideal. In a study done by Lewinsohn, Gotlib, and Seeley (1995), they found that negative cognitions were a functional risk factor specific to MDD. They also stated that negative cognitions are important the Cognitive Theory of Depression by Beck (1978) and the Learned Helplessness Model of Depression by Abramson and colleagues’ which both relate to MDD and how it develops. In regards to Janet, the Learned Helpless Model of Depression is more present. This model states that a certain person knows that they are helpless in certain situations so they avoid them. Janet feels as if she cannot do anything to get her son to go to bed, so she often gives in and lets him sleep in her bed. She learned that she is helpless, so she gives into the situation every

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