Counselling and Intervention - PDF

Running head: COUNSELLING INTERVENTION
Counselling Intervention
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Counselling and intervention are effective approaches for those people who have been
suffering from extreme distress and anxiety (Cornish & Wade, 2015). Intervention is taken by
the family or the friends for a certain person who seeks to professional help. However,
intervention and counselling methods are used to deal with the serious personal problem.
Counselling helps to understand the mental status of the individual, which is required to improve
the condition of the individuals. This study deals with the case study of Liz who has been
suffering from extreme level of depression due to her mother illness. However, Liz is diagnosed
with PND or Post natal depression. In this study, the factors of the current problem will be
analyzed and intervention process will be addressed.
According to the given scenario, it has been found that Liz has PND and she had married
with Con for 12 years. They had a son 3 years ago. Con works in an IT firm and Liz has a small
business of freelance photographer. Liz has mother, step father, and a sister. Her father left her
when she was just 8 years old. From the given scenario, it has been received that Liz mother has
recently diagnosed with lung cancer, which led Liz to feel devastated and this is a present issue.
Family problem is a big reason, which leads the individual to be depressed (Philpott & Corcoran,
2018). This is seen in the context of Liz. On the other hand, Liz is anxious regarding the small
things in her personal life. Due to her mother illness, Liz is scared as she thinks that she will be
developed PND disease as the result of this depression. From the above discussion, it has been
addressed that mother illness is a big cause that leads Liz to face health issue as well as
depression. On the other hand, Liz has a difficult relationship with Con's family, which is
another problem of Liz's personal life. However, poor relationship with the family members
affects the mental stability of an individual.

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The given case study reveals that Liz is a non-Greek girl and Con belongs from a Greek
family. As a result, Liz believes that Con's family will never accept their relationship. On the
other hand, Liz has tried to give happiness to Con's family by helping them in work. However,
despite these efforts of Liz, she did not get an appraisal from Con's family, which also makes her
depressed. Apart from this, there is another issue, which affects the lifestyle of Liz is the poor
relationship with her sister. Sally is rich in comparison to Liz and gives more time to their sick
mother. Liz has given the effort to establish a good relationship with her sister, however; Sally
always tries to compete with Liz in terms of affection and time of her mother. Poor relationship
with family members leads the people to face a high level of depression (Glaus et al., 2018).
From the above discussion, it has been found that Liz has been suffering from depression due to
her present family issues. However, personal issue is a big reason that leads the people to be
depressed and face mental disorder.
Several theoretical factors are associated with the unhelpful thoughts and behavior of the
individuals. This can be addressed by using cognitive behavioral theory or CBT theory.
However, the functioning of the individuals is negative then the reasons of such abnormalities
can be explained by using CBT theory (Harvey, 2017). In the given scenario, it has been
addressed that Liz has negative thinking regarding her personal life, which leads her to face
depression. Cognitive behavioral theory is associated with the early behaviorists’ failure.
Cognitive behavioral theory is referred to cognitive as this theory is applied to address the mental
status and thinking of an individual (Farmer & Chapman, 2016). Cognitive behavioral theory is
associated with the psychotherapy thus, it often called cognitive behavioral therapy.
According to CBT theory depression occurs from distorted judgment and thoughts (). In the case
of Liz, it has been observed that she thinks there is a specific reason of every incident and she