Capella University Alcoholism & Aggresiveness Treatment Plan Reflection Paper Discussion
Capella University Alcoholism & Aggresiveness Treatment Plan Reflection Paper Discussion
Question Description
For this assignment, write a 4 page paper in which you reflect on the family for which you developed the treatment plan that you created.
An introduction that presents a brief overview of your work with the presented client, including the following information:
The number of sessions.
The context of your work (for example, all family sessions, some individual sessions, home visits, office visits, school visits, and so forth).
If the case has closed, how that was decided?
Self-of-the-therapist reflections:
What was it like for you to work with this client?
What did you find difficult or challenging in your work with this client?
Was there a family member with whom you identified? How do you make sense of this?
Were there social or cultural issues that impacted your work with the family or impacted the case? Describe them and explain how you addressed them.
Were there ethical issues that you found challenging involved in the case? What were the issues and what was challenging about them?
Discuss the impact of diversity on the case, including the assessment and diagnostic process.
Think about whether psychotropic medication might be appropriate for a client in this case.
What would be your reasoning behind a medication decision in this case?
What are the benefits of suggesting a medication regimen with a combination of therapy?
What might be the limitations of a medication regimen for this client?
Conclusion:
How was your work with this case different than you expected?
What did you learn from your work with this family?
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Family Therapy
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Biopsychosocial Assessment and Diagnosis
Presenting Problem
The client is a 24-year-old White male belonging to a family of four who is under the therapy session. A family friend’s therapist referred to the family. The chief complaint presented by the client family is that the son feels that the problem is in his surroundings, particularly the people around him and not with himself. The client that everyone close to him is an “idiot” and has psychological issues. Rather than talking about himself as having the problem, in the previous sessions, the client tried to psychoanalyze his family, claiming that he had had concerns with the people around him since he was fifteen.
Assessments for a Clinical Conceptualization
After talking to his family about the condition, they said that they have always been concerned about his status since age fifteen. His manipulative behavior, unethical conduct with the opposite gender, and constant lies worry his family. The client focuses on other people’s concerns stating that they have lower intelligence than him, thus not understanding him.
Goals Developed with the Family
The short term goals developed with the family to assist the client are as follows: first, one counseling session will be attended every week to increase therapeutic compliance, thus avoid associated problems and the negative consequences. Second, the client will have fewer cases of sexual misconduct by realizing that his actions will have consequences. Third, the cases of alcohol use and disorderly behavior will be reduced by addressing the issue. Fourth, the client will be better able to develop self-anger management (Association American Psychiatric, 2013).
The client’s long-term goals will include the client taking responsibility for his problems and having the willingness to understand them. Second, the client should develop behavior that is less exploitative and manipulative toward family and friends. Third, the client should develop an understanding of his underlying feelings resonating with alcohol dependence. Finally, the client should be able to self-soothe in cases of anger, thus infrequency of anger outbursts.
External Consultations
The client’s case was consulted with a psychiatrist for further psychiatric evaluation. The client’s antisocial personality disorder has no specific medication. However, consultations with a clinician helped in the suggestion for evidence of alternative psychiatric medications such as administration of lithium that helped with aggression.
Legal and Ethical Considerations and Impact on Family and Case
The patient’s legal and ethical considerations have a direct impact on his case and the family through notions of better behaviors toward others. The case is kept confidential with the patient and family, and there is an ethical duty to protect the patient, his family, and others from harm. Detailed information concerning the client outcomes is given to the family for further analysis and considerations for future treatment (Schwartz and Goldsmith, 2019).
Client Demographic Data for Each Family Member
The client’s family comprises two children, the patient son, a daughter, the mother, and the father. The father has no known mental health diagnosis and is concerned about his family’s well-being, particularly the son. The mother shows signs of memory loss, forgetting events that have taken place in the recent past. The daughter is calm and shows no signs of mental disorders; she is quiet and shows caring behavior toward his psychiatric brother and the mother due to her memory loss. The client, who is the son in the family, presents with some mental disorders but blames it on others rather than himself.
Sociocultural Information for the Family System
The family system under the therapy session shows a significant relationship between intelligence scores and mobility and academic achievement (Morcillo et al., 2015).
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