Counseling In Human Services Character Analysis

Khesanio Hall
Counseling in Human Services
Bio psychosocial Assessment
The way we get by Dough, a male whose age wasn’t told throughout the movie, but neither his ethnicity but is definitely an adult. Dough was very emotional throughout most part of the movie and also seem to switch mood various times based on what was going on around him and the environment that he was in. he was never married, but was involve in a sexual relationship with Beth His employment status is working in the navy and he showed a very stable living situation since he was able to help himself in ways of providing things for his own needs, for him to be comfortable. The was he dressed was very neat, he was well attired for the different situations. even though he was
away for most of the time, he had his own house but was sleeping between his house and Beth’s house. Dough is straight, and and was single for quite awhile until he met Beth. His family members weren’t listed in the movie but it was said that he had a sister.
Dough was a very social person, had a few friends who he would normally drink and laugh around with for most of the time he was off duty.
Dough was always getting drunk because he loved alcohol so much. His presenting problem was a combination of his job being affected by his new mate Beth, since he was getting angry most of the time they are around each other. Beth was very demanding; he didn’t like that especially when he was around his friends. This all started after he slept with Beth and he wasn’t able to control his feelings after that had happened. However, he never tried to fix the problem he was having any at all. He continued in the same direction that he was looking with Beth. Since he was always getting into arguments with Beth, he would turn to drinking which he thought was the solution to cool him down. Since all of that was an issue for him, he was affected by these factors emotionally, which led him to be bipolar. His current stressors were known to him to be Beth ignorance and his dependence on alcohol. Fortunately, he was able to find his source of strength from his friends who was always there for him to vent to. He was the one person who lived in his house but was able to visit his family for dinner. The client motivation comes from his friends and family. Because his friends relationships are working out well and his own is having problems he tried to make it perfect but it wasn’t happening for him since him and Beth are always
arguing.
The problems that we chose for this intervention were that he needs to work on his relationship and contribute more positives and he think he would want to stop drinking permanently, thus, not making alcohol something that he looks comfort from.
We had organized couple sessions to meet to figure out the problems he should be working on and also the things that he could possibly do to try and chance the behaviors. Within the first session, Since Dough had been showing a difference in mood, our actual session that we had was somehow able to look at his difficulties. He looked at it in a way that he would be able to look past his current problems she openly talked about her extensive history of traumatic experiences. He sort of seemed to come to a better understanding of how to possibly control his emotions. The second session in which he visited we had the chance to discuss what she all that she expect based on the goals she will be setting for therapy. As our discussion went on, she was able to realize that her problem was tied to him no being as comfortable as he would like to be in the relationship. We agreed on the goals of improving his social life more, and find other things to replace his anger even when it wasn’t him that started up a problem. The third session we planned was to finalize a treatment plan, which could be the blueprint for additional
sessions.
We know that it may not be possible to protect the person you care for from all stress, we could see that Beth cared for Dough, but still she was being irritating at time to him. However, there are certain stressors that should be avoided, but not all stress is avoidable. The person needs to find ways to manage stress so we figured out couple exercises that we could use to try change his angry behavior. These could be exercising, talking things over with someone, writing or painting, though he is using one of those ways to keep up by talking to his friends when he feels stressed by Beth’s behavior. Situation is that he can continue to build on his strength that is seemingly keeping him up, that strength is socializing with friends. The client roles and responsibilities in this situation is to make sure that he is understanding of himself and figure out the best possible way to implement the goals that were listed in is everyday life on a regular enough basis so it will become a habit for him. We set a time frame of up until March to see if these interventions change anything and still we will be checking in with each other on a regular basis. Twice per week just to see how these interventions are coming along.