Abnormal Child Psych Bpd
Child and Youth Mental Health Issues – Major Assignment Part A
Elaina Pham
Sheridan College
Hayley MacPhail
July 5th, 2013
Introduction
This case study is on Susanna Kayson in the Girl, Interrupted movie. She is a young, 18 year old girl that has just graduated from high school. She is confused about her life and the direction it is going and this frustrates, as well as depresses her. Her family and peers around her have high expectations of her which she feels she cannot and does not want to meet. She feels incomplete and lost because she is not following the footsteps of her fellow peers. After a nearly successful suicide attempt, she is recommended to stay at the Claymoore mental institution. Here she is diagnosed as having borderline personality disorder. At this institution, at first, she was not used to the loud chaos of all the different patients and their different disorders, she felt she didn’t belong there. However, she starts to learn more about each of the patients and overtime she starts to feel at home, the institution is the only place where she actually has friends. In high school, Susanna was out casted and her peers considered her weird, in the institution, there are no expectations or judgement casted on her and she is allowed to be herself. Susanna was progressing in her treatment plan until she became friends with one of the other patients named, Lisa. She lost interest in trying to get out of the mental institution and therefore stopped caring about her treatment plan. It wasn’t until she realized how mean and manipulative Lisa was that she was able to continue on with her treatment. She finally was able to take advantage of the mental institution and the staff members, as well as the doctors and recover from her disorder, and eventually got released a year after she was admitted. She learned how to cope with her feelings by journaling and her stay at the mental institution gave her a chance to think about what she wanted to do
Elaina Pham
Sheridan College
Hayley MacPhail
July 5th, 2013
Introduction
This case study is on Susanna Kayson in the Girl, Interrupted movie. She is a young, 18 year old girl that has just graduated from high school. She is confused about her life and the direction it is going and this frustrates, as well as depresses her. Her family and peers around her have high expectations of her which she feels she cannot and does not want to meet. She feels incomplete and lost because she is not following the footsteps of her fellow peers. After a nearly successful suicide attempt, she is recommended to stay at the Claymoore mental institution. Here she is diagnosed as having borderline personality disorder. At this institution, at first, she was not used to the loud chaos of all the different patients and their different disorders, she felt she didn’t belong there. However, she starts to learn more about each of the patients and overtime she starts to feel at home, the institution is the only place where she actually has friends. In high school, Susanna was out casted and her peers considered her weird, in the institution, there are no expectations or judgement casted on her and she is allowed to be herself. Susanna was progressing in her treatment plan until she became friends with one of the other patients named, Lisa. She lost interest in trying to get out of the mental institution and therefore stopped caring about her treatment plan. It wasn’t until she realized how mean and manipulative Lisa was that she was able to continue on with her treatment. She finally was able to take advantage of the mental institution and the staff members, as well as the doctors and recover from her disorder, and eventually got released a year after she was admitted. She learned how to cope with her feelings by journaling and her stay at the mental institution gave her a chance to think about what she wanted to do
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