Nan came to therapy on her own. No reference mentioned. Nan states she is nervous, counseling is not the norm for her. Nan expresses, she would like Dr. Beam to help her figure out where to start from here. Nan has recently split up with her boyfriend of three years. Nan is a pediatric medical student and her boyfriend is an attorney. Their relationship was like a passing ship in the night. Nan states it is a time for a change, why hold on to something that does not exist any longer. Nan felt her boyfriend would not initiate the breakup, Nan opts to break-off the relationship due to the conflict in their schedules. Now she is having difficulty dealing with the emotions attached to the breakup. Expressing her and the boyfriend was each other’s support system since entering the United States. Nan also faces going against her cultural beliefs, counseling is not accepted, and one should not share their feelings with non-family members. She visualizes what her parents would say “What are you doing, you know why you…” Nan is feeling depressed from the loss of her best friend and her only connection to her native country. She replies this is the hardest part to deal …show more content…
with. Nan also has identity issues, experiencing not fitting in, seen as a minority, within a minority, labeled as African American, not a colored person. Nan’s origin is West Indian from the Caribbean. Nan says her racial and cultural identity is important to her. Losing her boyfriend who understood that is making her feel isolated. Upon entering the United States, Nan receives counseling in her undergrad years, due to difficulties in adapting. The counselor and Nan did not form a bond causing her not to return. Nan also implies she is finding herself withdrawing/isolating, appetite loss, lack of concentration and mind is always wandering. As well as, not being able to sleep at nights, only sleeping two to three hours, because she is constantly thinking about the loss of her relationship and what this means for her, having to establish new friendships. When the symptoms overcome her, she takes off work for a day, knowing at is wrong. Just to watch TV all day, just doing nothing, not eating, she would repeat this cycle every few weeks. Significant changes in Nan’s life after the breakup, increase in clinic work (internship), spending more time with her patients.
She implies these symptoms started before the breakup and still current six months later. Nan also has thoughts of suicide, but no plans. But thinks it would be easy just to end it, done with all the stress, and assumption of people, not wanting anything anymore, the breakup is too painful. Nan describes it as “darkness” just exists in “nothingness.” Nan says this is not normal behavior for her, that is why she chose to come to therapy. She also says the sequence of the suicidal thoughts, happens, every couple of days, every few days, ever four or five days. What is stopping Nan from committing suicide, it what here parents would stay and how it will hurt
them. Nan wants Dr. Beam to be someone who asks questions does not assume, someone who is open minded, understanding and can keep what they talk about in the session confident. Nan is willing to come back but still is not 100% comfortable.
As Norma used to help Sonia and the other kids who did not do well, they both had become good friends. But when Sonia saw Norma going down in her life, she got sad, and when once they met, Sonia started crying about how her friend and role model failed. It was really sad for her to see the person she had believed would succeed in all those years, going down. She did not want to be disappointed anymore, as she had already gone through enough shock from meeting Norma. Due to this she decided to never agree again.
The speaker is visiting “home for the weekend, /from school, from the North,” and her grandma asks her, “How’s school a-goin’?” The speaker replies with “School’s fine,” holding back her emotions on her lifestyle in college. “I wanted to tell her/about the nights I cried into the familiar heartsick panels of the quilt she made me,/wishing myself home on the evening star./I wanted to tell her/the evening star was a planet,/that my friends wore noserings and wrote poetry/about sex, about alcoholism, about Buddha./ I wanted to tell her how my stomach burned acidic holes at the thought of speaking in class,/speaking in an accent, speaking out of turn,” Understanding is a vital part of the bonds people share. She knew her grandma couldn’t comprehend any of it. The speaker sensed her grandma would deem her friends inadequate. “I was tearing, splitting myself apart/with the slow-simmering guilt of being happy/despite it all.” In spite of the hardships, the speaker enjoyed it
Ellen just felt a distant sadness. Ellen cried just a little bit. Her grandmother was furious because Ellen showed some emotions. She told her to never cry again. After that Ellen becomes scarred for a long time.
Connection to people, family, and places are conveyed through the representation of belonging. “Rainbows End” by Harrison gives us the connection between Nan Dear with the Aboriginal Community, and a connection through family. “The Little Refugee” illustrates how Anh has had barrier that has prevented him from belonging, and how he has fitted in school, resulting in Anh creating friends along with being accepted.
The narrator has two daughters, Dee and Maggie. Dee was this cute girl who was super intelligent and sophisticated. She often saw herself as being above her mother and sister and would often make them feel stupid and bad about themselves. "She used to read to us without pity, forcing words, lies, other folks' habits, whole lives upon us two, sitting trapped and ignorant underneath her voice". She shows that Dee enjoyed making her mother and younger sister feel dumb about themselves because it made her feel superior. Her whole life Dee detested her family and where she came from and couldn’t wait to get away. But, still her mother worked her booty off to provide her with high education and a good life. Dee goes away to college and when she returns she is a completely different person, suddenly interested in her family; photographing them upon arrival. With her guest, new "Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo", invades her mothers house taking everything in like it’s a cute display for her. Finally, when Wangero (Dee) demands that her mother give her some quilts, her mum can not take anymore. She tells Dee that Maggie, not her, will be receiving the quilts and she snaps. "I did something I never had done before: hugged Maggie to me, then dragged her on into the room, snatched the quilts out of Miss Wangero's hands, and dumped them into Maggie's lap. Maggie just sat
In this vignette, the client and social worker begin a new session at the point where the last left off. Kirsten, a college student, has come to this private practice setting to discuss her experiences, fears, and difficulties with coming out, particularly after her previous coming out experiences. In the previous sessions, the worker and Kirsten have explored many themes revolving around coming out, her experience coming out to her neighbor, and Kirsten’s anxieties about talking with her sister. The role of the social worker in this vignette is to discuss possible options with Kirsten as she moves toward talking with her sister, engaging in role play Kirsten has requested, and exploring Kirsten’s feelings about the upcoming meeting with her
With grief also comes pain. Naomi suffering through sexual exploitation at the hands of her next door neighbor left her scared for the rest of her life, yet unable to speak on the ordeal. Along with molestation, Naomi also suffered through displacement, racism, and the interment of her people. Events that would have a serious effect on the psyche of someone still maturing; Injustices carried out against her family outraged her Yet she endures in silence, unable to speak, only able to question, ponder and forget; “If I linger in the longing [to remember her childhood], I am drawn into a whirlpool. I can only skirt the edges after all”, it’s clear that she wants to forget the past, yet ponders on whether or not to revisit it. Her two aunts serve as figures that contradict. At the start of the novel, Naomi shares the mindset of her Obasan; An Issei who employs silence in response to injustices and grief. However her aunt Emily does not accept the belief that the Japanese should endure through silence. She wants Naomi to reclaim her voice, follow in her footsteps and speak out against the hatred in the society. The media shames them, calling them the “Yellow peril” and a “stench in the nostrils of the Canadian people”, painting false images that glorify their internment which aunt Emily shows clear resentment towards. Naomi is reluctant to accept the idea that silence is restrictive. As she sees letters her aunt
Lee decided to use a person-centered approach with Elijah because he believes that he has the resources to make decisions in his life. Before every counseling session, Dr. Lee greets Elijah with a handshake, smile, and a snack. In this second session, told Elijah that he believes that he will conclude about his major. Dr. Lee in these counseling sessions allow Elijah to talk through his feelings and explaining how his choices will affect his future. When Elijah talks, Dr. Lee is engaged to everything that he is expressing and would nod his head every now and then. Dr. Lee tell Elijah from their interaction, he can see a sense of regret even though he wants to be happy. Elijah admits that the assignment had helped him a lot. When Dr. Lee asked him to explain, he said, “Halfway while during the assignment I wanted to add more cons to the list to outbid the pros, even though he want to change his major.” This represents the unconditional positive regards. Dr. Lee reassured Elijah that he is glad that he shared that information and understand why he wanted to outbid the pros. Dr. Lee told him that change can be scary and sometimes we should change to make ourselves happy. “I can see how having both parents as doctors can impact your feeling,” Dr. Lee said. Dr. Lee genuinely decided to share his college experience about struggling to find a major. Revealing this story made Elijah more comfortable with switching his major. During revealing his
... is reminiscing about the fact that she messed up and it cost the boy’s life. The overall tone in the end of the novel is depressing as the governess’s actions and attitudes about current events tend to reflect the tone of the situation.
Have you ever been in a situation where you intended to help out your friend when all of a sudden, their relationship problems became yours too? You might be a little too sympathetic. Hi, I’m William Bouchard, and I would like to thank you, the school counsellors, for attending this meeting on the stress level and workload of students. I wish to persuade you that too much sympathy is a bad thing. Specifically, I want to speak about the problems that come to an over-sympathetic individual who tend to take on other people’s problems. I will go over how easily people communicate feelings, how many people get stuck in these kinds of situations and how problematic they can become.
Throughout the case study, Dan Lee, a Chinese American, was struggling with concentrating on his college studies and reoccurring personal conflicts amongst people. Dan is an undergraduate student preparing to apply for medical school, which he cannot apply unless he passes all necessary courses. However, he has been having some difficulty with staying on top of all assignments given. Also, he seeks help from the university-counseling center with his feelings of anxiety, tension, sadness, and anger. Many of these feelings arise when his fellow peers, family, and friends does not see that he is always “right” and they are always “wrong”. Although, in some cases he feels disrespected by the way his mother and sister does not abide
Mina comes back home only fifteen minutes later, crying. The grandmother is blamed once again for Mina’s actions. Mina reacts to her grandmothers questions of the tears by saying “ You m...
It is good to be supportive no matter what happens to another person. Comforting them when they experience difficulty and rejoicing when they have success is what relationships are about. This is the case of Brandy who called her former academic advisor Sally for help. Recently, Brandy began living with her niece and her niece’s boyfriend, after Brandy’s move from California. However, the living arrangement is not working out. She is not regularly taking her medication for her bi-polar illness and this results in her having delusions and other symptoms. So, she asks Sally if she can live with her for six months. Sally encourages Brandy to seek help through a community resource that can help her manage her medication, and provide counseling and housing. However, Brandy does not want to go into a therapeutic setting, which she has had to do numerous times, so she wants to get back on track in life in her own way. Still, Sally mentions some names and phone numbers of some resources to help her. She knows that it would not be a good idea to allow Sally to live with her under the circumstance, and she encourages her to keep in touch no matter what Bandy ends up doing. Also, Sally knows that Brandy has ten brothers and sisters and wonders why she is not staying with any of them. Sally’s deceased brother used to have bi-polar, and she is familiar with some of the signs and symptoms of it.
Within the individual psychology relationship the counselor has several roles that they hold. The counselor establishes an egalitarian relationship, working as teachers in their relationships. They model, teach, and assess areas of the client’s life such as how Ana grew up the middle child and her ways of responding and functioning. The counselor’s role is also to direct and encourage Ana, being warm and human, and admitting their own mistakes when necessary (Gladding, 2005; Murdock, 2013).
Some of these are broken romances, family tension, problems at school, and other pressures. All though most of the time it is more than just one of these causes. There are many signs to look out for in a teen that will/may commit suicide. Child and adolescent psychiatrists recommend that if one or more of these signs occurs, parents need to talk to their child about their concerns and seek professional help when the concerns persist.