T/C Case Conceptualization Model Outline: Kira's Drug Addiction

This assignment provides a detailed case conceptualization of Kira, a 19-year-old university student admitted to a chemical dependency unit due to drug addiction. The analysis utilizes the T/C (Temporal/Contextual) model, examining various aspects of Kira's life, including her presenting problem, demographics, internal personality constructs (self-efficacy, self-esteem, attitudes), attachment style, biological factors, affect, cognition, and behavior. It explores her history of drug use, including the use of hallucinogens, and the impact of her parents' divorce. The document highlights her symptoms, coping skills, readiness for change, and life roles. Additionally, the assignment outlines Kira's timeline of influences, including past and present factors, and proposes future goals for her recovery, such as reducing drug consumption through medicinal interventions and psychotherapy within a 3-month period, along with regular exercise and emotional regulation techniques. References to relevant research papers are also included.

T/C Case Conceptualization Model Outline
(Areas that the counselor believes require more information)
Client: First Name: Kira
Client Demographics:
Age- 19 years of age
Gender- Female
Relationship Status: Single and unmarried.
Spiritual/Religious Affiliation- The spiritual affiliation or the religious affiliation is
unknown..
Other
Presenting Problem The patient is suffering from drug addction problems and she
need to be sent to the psychtriac unit for further observation. When the patient was met
with the psychiatrist, she was barefooted and was wearing clothes and jewelleries of the
vintage style. She was very anxious and this was visible as her eye were more dilated
than usual. The reason for taking drugs was the divirce of her parents. She used to
suffer from halluciantions as she used to take hallucinogens like LSD, ecstasy and
mescalin (Bilbao et al., 2015).
Internal Personality Constructs and Behavior
Self-efficacy: The self efficacy of the patient was not much effected. It was the same as
it was before.
Self-esteem: The self esteem of the person was also the same, it was neither low or
high..
Attitudes/Values/Beliefs: Her attitude changed a little bit after she has started taking
drugs. She was suffering from loneliness after her parents got divorced.
Attachment Style: The attachmentstyle was avoidant. During te early stages of her life,
she was much attached with her family, but after her parens got divorced she lost her
attachment with her mother.
Biology/Physiology/Heredity:The family history is showin that none of her parents were
involved in drug addiction.
Affect: Because of the drug addiction, she used to hallucinate, even in the stadium, she
was found hallucinating about James. She told that she was hearing James telling her
to stay in the stadium.
Cognition: The patient have completely lost the capability to procure the acquired
knowledge and also understanding through the experiences after she started taking
drugs (Rudd et al., 2016).
Hot Thoughts: “My dad was career military. It sucked—we moved like every two years and it
made it impossible to make friends, you know?”. “Yeah, and pretty lonely. Then my mom and
dad divorced when I was about ten, and that was hard too. I started taking drugs because it
made me more interesting, like other people wanted to be around me more.”.
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Behavior: Her behavior changed since the time she had started taking drugs. He had
desires to change but lacks motivation.
Symptomology: Suffering from cognitive disorder, lack of energy and motivation also,
hallucinations because of medicines like LSD.
Coping Skills and Strengths: she has also lost the capability to cope with the
evironments.
Readiness for Change: Has the capability to change evident from her desire to get
admitted to the hospital.
Life Roles: Only her mother was there with her.
Environment
Relationships: The relationship with her mother deteriorated
Culture:Not mentioned.
Family Norms and Values: The conditions of her family was also not good as her
parents got divorced.
Societal Influences: Nothing was much describd.
Timeline
Past Influences: The patient started taking drugs because of the divorce of her parents.
Her parents were not addicted with drugs.
Present Influences: Strained relation with her mother after starting taking drugs.
Future Goals: The patient must follow some specific goals in order to get cured (Anitua
et al., 2015). The goal is reducing the consumption of drug by following medicinal
interventions alongwith psychotherapy with in a time period of 3 month. The patient
must rule out the substance abuse and the counselor must develop a treatment plan
(Davis et al., 2018). The treatment plan should include the different medicines that the
patient should take, if required psychotherapy can als be applied to the patient. She
should do regular exercises which will boost her mind and keep her healhy. She must
be taught to cope up with every conditions, to control her emotions. Though the patient
was aware about the impacts of extreme substance abuse but still needs to follow the
care plan otherwise she will not be able to leave consuming drugs (Bancroft & Reid,
2016).
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References
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Bilbao, A., Robinson, J. E., Heilig, M., Malanga, C. J., Spanagel, R., Sommer, W. H., &
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