Understanding and Addressing Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault: A 5

The assignment investigates a complex case involving Tanisha, who has experienced domestic violence and sexual assault. The analysis employs the 5P approach to profile, prioritize, analyze problems, solve issues, and plan interventions. Further information about Tanisha’s personal and professional life is essential for comprehensive profiling. Prioritization involves focusing on her behavioral patterns and family dynamics. Problem-solving includes therapeutic practices like yoga and meditation to address mental trauma, while respecting her boundaries. Theoretical perspectives such as the impact of social reactions and coping strategies are reviewed, guiding the treatment plan. Challenges in therapy may arise if historical complexities aren't addressed, potentially affecting Tanisha's relationship with her children. Societal issues influencing the case are also considered.

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Question 5: Provide a case conceptualization using the 5P approach, noting where
appropriate if there is further information you would need for a comprehensive
formulation.
Answer:
According to Linda Miller, the creator of 5 P approach has been taken into certain
consideration of the cases pertaining to the effective understanding of its general concept making
procedure with its actual approaches. The 5 P approach helps in understanding the behavior and
psychology of a person and managing his or her behavior accordingly. The 5 P’s include
profiling, prioritizing, problem analysis, problem solving and planning. In this case, complete
information regarding Tanisha shall be required for the process of profiling. This might include
her likes, dislikes, behavioral patterns, personal life details and professional life detail. In case of
prioritizing, the behavioral and psychological patterns of Tanisha shall be emphasized upon and
only after analyzing her problems related to her family and behavioral patterns, the problem
solving session can be planned. Her personal views and attitude towards her life and family
would be considered for a comprehensive formulation. Additionally, the information regarding
the psychological well- being or issues faced by Tanisha shall be obtained from her family
members, colleagues and friends for a comprehensive formulation. The behavioral complexity
would be highly effective in terms of considering the pattern of Tanisha and her children- Lucas,
Molly, and Grace. However, it has to be taken into consideration pertaining to the fact that the
specific reason for the behavioral discriminations with different children, Tanisha has been
creating a gap among the siblings. It has been observed that Tanisha becomes quite obsessive
while talking to Grace and she is fond of her son as well. To take her out from this type of
problems, the experts can ask the partner of the woman to encourage her to express herself in a

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more vivid way and encourage her to live her life to the fullest forgetting all the past. Apart from
that, sometimes, a contemplating practice can quiet the mind of the victim woman and that
includes yoga, meditation, Tai chi and much more. Apart from that, the doctor must be able to
honor her boundaries like he or she can ask the woman to get the control of her body and soul
and the woman herself has to make it sure that she should not take away the freedom of her life
due to the fearful events of her life.
Question 6: Provide a brief review of relevant theoretical and therapeutic approaches for
this case, providing a rationale for your chosen treatment.
Answer:
Tanisha has multiple complexities in her lifecycle. These are found to be hovering around
her familial issues. She has been a victim of sexual assault. With the effective understanding of
the case where Tanisha was highly obnoxious pertaining to her behavior to Lucas who was
Brian’s child has been highly deplorable. However, this has been taken into certain consideration
that this has been effectively considerable to the specific understanding of how she would be
accepted in the realm of different physical as well as mental harassment. In this aspect
"irresistible impulse" myth can be taken into consideration. However, the focus has been to find
out effective psychotherapeutic consideration of the perfect cases with its different formulation.
In this context, it can be stated that Tanisha has highly been affected in terms of creating her own
world. She was not able to cope up with the violence and her mental state was affected due to the
incidents she had undergone in the past. In this case, it has been highly impactful that her
consideration with the children and the thought process that she would tend to share with them
are highly impacted upon by the past incidents. In this process, there is a clear understanding of

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the process pertaining to the effective understanding of its case. In this context, the theory of
causation has been taken into account. As a matter of fact, this has been taken into certain
consideration pertaining to the effective understanding of the process that has to be taken into
certain consideration pertaining to the effective chances to find out how most of the specific
understanding has to be taken into account. In the theory of social causation, four different
segments are to be taken into consideration:
i) Theory of Violence
ii) Ecological Theory
iii) Evolutionary Theory
iv) Feminist Theory
However, this specific case can be studied through the theory of violence ever since Tanisha’s
assault is considered and concerned. On the other hand, attachment theory can also be
implemented while discussing the problem and complexities of Tanisha.
Question 7: Discuss your treatment plan, including discussion of the theories and therapies
you could draw upon in your work with Tanisha. This should include some discussion of
specific techniques and interventions that are part of the chosen therapies, and how you
could use these with Tanisha
The rationale behind having chosen the treatment process is that Tanisha might be
suffering from a certain mental trauma pertaining to her behavior to the other children. As the
woman was sexually harassed in the teen age she had somehow grown a negative mindset and
has developed a problem and that is discriminating racially her own children. She is
discriminating her own daughter and son and getting emotionally more attached to her son. The

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scene gets more complicated when she does not get along with her daughters and gives all the
privileges to her son. It is also seen that when her son hugs her or touches her she gets stiff and
she feels utterly uncomfortable with that touch and it is somehow unacceptable for any normal
person. A mother should not feel any kind of rigidness when it comes to the touch of her own
ward. In this case, the woman was sexually assaulted at the time of her teen age. It is somehow
planted in her mind that from teenage boys she might be harmed emotionally and physically and
that is somehow restraining her from getting close to her own daughters and at times from her
own son. To take her out from this type of problems, the experts can ask the partner of the
woman to encourage her to express herself in a more vivid way and encourage her to live her life
to the fullest forgetting all the past. Apart from that, sometimes, a contemplating practice can
quiet the mind of the victim woman and that includes yoga, meditation, Tai chi and much more.
Apart from that, the doctor must be able to honor her boundaries like he or she can ask the
woman to get the control of her body and soul and the woman herself has to make it sure that she
should not take away the freedom of her life due to the fearful events of her life.
Question 8: Discuss any challenges or issues that you anticipate could occur in therapy with
Tanisha, and any ideas about how you could manage these challenges. This may include
but is not limited to, any broader societal/cultural/community issues that could be
important to consider in working with this case, along with any other therapeutic issues.
Answer: If the treatment does not work properly she would be directed towards the specific case
where she would not be brought out of mental trauma. She might grow specific dislike towards
some of her children. If this does not properly focus on her historical complexities that she might
have been undergoing during her teenage days the future treatment cannot be made possible.

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