PHE102: Case Study Report on Adolescent Health and Lauren's Case

This report, centered on the PHE102 course, presents a case study of a 16-year-old girl named Lauren and her interactions with her general practitioner, Rob, concerning her health and behavioral issues. The report details Rob's attempts to encourage Lauren to adopt a healthier lifestyle, includin...Read More

PHE102 Enquiry 2
◦ Introduction Rob’s helpful actions and comments that assist Lauren to modify
Healthcare comprises of maintaining and improving health through diagnosis,
prevention and treatment of diseases. Under this report a poster has been prepared
which is related with working with adolescents. This poster contains information
received in the workshop which involves a case study which is based on 16-year-old
girl Lauren and her practitioner.
Rob is the general practitioner who is attending Lauren case. He has suggested that Lauren
should engage in more physical exercise and reduce the level of alcohol consumption. He has
also suggested that she should engage in more social activities such as meeting more friends.
He believes that my bringing changes in Lauren behaviour can be a key to solve her
problems. Along with it he organised a video session with Lauren's family so that her
problems can be discussed in a better way and her family can understand the problems that
Lauren is dealing with can can assist her in overcoming such issues. He also gave her
pamphlets so that she can follow her asthma medication regularly and can understand the
importance of exercising in daily life but Lauren did not follow the same by making accuse
that she was unable to manage her school and other stuff. Rob is constantly drawing Lauren
attention to adopt healthy lifestyle and add exercising in her daily routine so that her issue can
be resolved and he is advising her to meet more number of people and be more socially active
so that her behaviour can be modified. He also suggested that a support group can be a nice
place to socialise and overcome the issues as they tent to help people and this will also help
Lauren to keep distance from people who are bad influence for her.
◦ Identification of Lauren's Problematic behaviour
Lauren meet with an accident while coming back from a party which caused her
injury and after the accident Lauren gained weight and started to hate her looks as she
thinks that she is not presentable because of this she lost contact with her old friends
and started to hang around a small group of new friends. The new group of friend
were involved in drinking and Lauren started to enjoy their company and also enjoyed
partying with them which involved drinking alcohol. It has impacted on her daily
activities as she started hanging around at one of her friend’s house on most of the
Friday and Saturday night and they spend the entire night drinking and drinking at this
age can be a health issue. Which results in morning hangover on most of the Saturday
and Sunday morning because of which she is getting trouble getting out of bed and
perform her job duties at local bakery Which have resulted in getting warning at her
job place. Due to such lifestyle she is not able to concentrate on her work and also
have created a distance with her old group. It has made her less social and made her
hang out with small number of friends which impacted her behaviour towads her
family. It has also implicated her while adhering to her asthma management regime
which is putting negative impact on her health. As she is spending her most of time
being with her friends and drinking she is not able to concentrate on both work and
school. Due to her drinking problems she is facing certain other issues such as she is
not able to be mentally active in her school and her grades are getting effected by the
same

Rob invited Lauren step father in the videos session and the chemistry between Lauren and
her step father was not great which resulted in Lauren getting frustrated at different level in
the video session and it have fuelled her with more rudeness in the session. As Lauren use to
share her life information with Rob on the believe that that the information will be in
between them by adding the family members in the entire process have impacted on the trust
level that Lauren had on Rob. It has also impacted the trust level which Lauren had on her
practitioner. This will also effect the behaviour of Lauren in the future session as she will
not be confident in sharing information related to her lifestyle as her trust have been broken
in the earlier sessions. Rob provided pamphlets to Lauren so that she can understand the
importance of exercising and have emphasised more importance to bring physical activities
in the lifestyle of Lauren instead of focussing more on drinking and withdrawal behaviour.
As drinking is effecting her health to a major extent.
Suggest modifications Rob could make during his consultation As Lauren is not close
with her step father David my adding him in the video session Rob have fuelled her rude
behaviour and at many level in the conversation they have passed negative comment on each
other. Rob would have maintained confidentiality that would have enhanced the level of
trust between him and Lauren. As Lauren have shared valuable information related to her
lifestyle with Rob she might not feel comfortable with sharing the same with her parents.
This would make her less likely to share her sensitive information which can have an
negative impact on her care. By maintaining confidentiality Rob can create a trusted
environment by respecting the privacy this would encourage Lauren to seek care and to be
more honest during her visit to the General practitioner (Rouprêt and et. al., 2014). By
enclosing the information in an open environment this will help Rob to treat Lauren in better
manner. Rob have provided pamphlets that will enlighten Lauren about the importance of
physical activities such as sport activities he can focus more on helping Lauren in quit
drinking. By making her realise that the amount she is consuming is not good for her health
and she can use different methods such as meditation that can give her both peace of mind
and will help her to control her drinking habits.
There are a wide range of behaviour change techniques that are being adopted by
practitioners. Techniques that will be used by Rob to assists Lauren in taking her
asthma medication can be expressed below:
Rob will provide information on the consequences of behaviour- The
practitioner will highlight the negative impact of the Lauren's action that will be
reflecting on her body. It will also include enlightening the importance of being active
as in day to day life. As Rob have already used pamphlets so that the importance of
being physically active can be drawn and the behaviour can be influenced by
motivating Lauren to take physical exercises into consideration that can improve her
health condition. Also example of different people such as who are suffering from the
same disease and are still continuously doing different activities can also help to
influence the behaviour of the patient (Introduction to behaviour change techniques
2019)
Time management- It comprises of managing time in an efficient manner so
that priorities can be given to a healthy behaviour. As Lauren is not able to manage
time between her work and school life because of her habits such as drinking and
laziness. As she is not able to have time to read pamphlets by making excuses about
her busy lifestyle. Effective management of time will help her to give time to
necessary things such as family and physical activities such as sports activates. Rob
will highlight such advantages of time management to Lauren and will assists her in
realising that by managing time properly Lauren will be able to be more aware about
her health condition and thus will be able to give priority to her asthma medication
Theoretical techniques Rob could employ to assist Lauren to take her
asthma medication
◦ Rob’s unhelpful actions that could inhibit Lauren from identifying
behaviour