Dan Lee's Case Study

This is a follow-up case study on Dan Lee, the pre-med student. This is a client that is seeking counseling for emotional and social stress issues at the university where he attends. It is apparent that Dan Lee is dealing with psychological stress, which can fall under three categories: harm, threat, and challenge (Hutchison, 2015). In Dan’s situation, his stress issues fall under the category: threat, which is causing him to be apprehensive about the possible negativity from his family and peers at each encounter. In a social worker’s perspective, evaluating the normality and abnormality with a client is required, but can be difficult due to normality is characterized by community and culture, which makes everyone different (Hutchison, 2015). The best option in determining the

The Social Work Perspective: Social Functioning The use of “person-in-environment” also known as PIE, is used to evaluate the ability of individuals to cope with stress. This assessment is a broad classification that pertains to four factors: social functioning problems, environmental problems, mental health issues and physical health problems. This assessment having such a broad classification allows all needs of the individual to be addressed (Hutchison, 2015). There are three commonly known factors that produce problems with social functioning: “stressful life transitions, relationship difficulties, and environment unresponsiveness, which all relate to transitory interaction with others or the environment” (Hutchison, 2015, p. 172). The three known factors after careful review are identified relevant to Dan’s stress situation. The need to take on the responsibilities after his parents’ divorce