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The Brief Case History of Maria

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Added on  2020-04-13

The Brief Case History of Maria

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Running head: PSYCHOLOGYPerez Family Case StudyName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
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1PSYCHOLOGYIdentification Details of the client-Name- Maria PerezAge- 40yearsGender- Female Status- Married (housewife)Husband’s name- Luis PerezBrief case history of Maria-Maria has been emigrated from Argentina to U.S with her in-laws, husbands andseven children. However, issue that she has stated has started showing its sign since theyhave shifted in this new place. Maria was educated in a convent all-girls’ school and gotmarried just completing her school at the age of 19years. Maria has always considered her in-laws house to be her own as she had lost her parents at a very young age in a car accident.After shifting to US, the first thing she found was that her husband and father in law arestruggling to develop their family business. Then suddenly her father-in-law died and hermother-in-law due to her loneliness, made herself distant from the family. She is currently at the beginning of menopause and thus, gets easily fatigued whiledoing the entire daily household works alone. However, with all these things still going onshe came to know that one of her children is pregnant. She was unable to tell this to herhusband as she know he is already stress and cannot even ask advice from her mother-in-lawas she has already made herself too distant from the family. Last but not the least hersituations worsen when his husband all of a sudden was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosisand was admitted in the hospital for engaging in rehabilitation.
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2PSYCHOLOGYProblem: The client named Maria is confused about her current state of life. She cannotfigure out what had happened in her life. Goal: To provide Maria Psychoeducation by which she will have a greater level ofunderstanding of all her problems. Therefore, she will be more relaxed and in control to dealwith life and a positive self-esteem will get to reflect in herself. Transcript** The words of the Client Maria who has difficulty speaking English has been translated inEnglish and used in this transcript. Me: Hello MariaMaria: HiMe: How are you feeling today?Maria: I do not know Me: Is there anything that is bothering you?Maria: *silent* *looking downwards*Me: You can tell me Maria, I am here to help you. Please tell me what the difficulty is.Maria: Actually....I just cannot understand what had happened to my life. Our family wasvery much successful when we were in Argentina. Then Luis felt that for our children itwould have been better if we come to US with our entire family. Me: Then
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