Counselling Assignment
Counseling assignment
March 16, 2007. Counseling Assignment
Biography of Client
The client is a 44-year-old Caucasian female, from a rural Southern Ontario background. The client is well educated and has worked as a teacher in the Elementary school system. At present, she is employed as a tutor for the adult learning center. The client identifies with no identifiable cultural or ethnic background, and firmly states, “I am a Canadian.” The client denies any religious affiliation or particular spiritual belief at the initial interview.
The client resides with her adult son, aged 20. The client also has two adult daughters that each live over two hours away.
The setting in which the sessions were held, dates and length of client sessions
The sessions were held at Dr. Hay’s Owen Sound Office, Feb 15, 2007 and Feb 21, 2007. The intake interview was 1 hour, 15 minutes, and the subsequent interview was 45 minutes in duration.
The presenting issue and/or problem from the client's perspective The client is upset because of her son’s behaviour. Her son took an overdose of her pills, and lay down in the bed to die. There was no suicide note, and he picked a time when no one would be home for quite a while. The son researched what would be a lethal dose of the mother’s medication, and then ingested twice the lethal amount. However the mother come home unexpectedly and found the son in his room unconscious. The son was transported to the hospital and expected to die. Fortunately, the son had also ingested Lasix with the sleeping pills (unnamed) and therefore a lethal dose was washed from his system (CPS, 2006). The patient’s son recovered with no known physical effects from the overdose. The second and most trouble difficulty for the client is the son’s behaviour since recovering from the overdose. The son has refused to discuss the attempt with any caregivers from the unit within which he now resides. He participates in group therapy, but only insomuch as to talk
March 16, 2007. Counseling Assignment
Biography of Client
The client is a 44-year-old Caucasian female, from a rural Southern Ontario background. The client is well educated and has worked as a teacher in the Elementary school system. At present, she is employed as a tutor for the adult learning center. The client identifies with no identifiable cultural or ethnic background, and firmly states, “I am a Canadian.” The client denies any religious affiliation or particular spiritual belief at the initial interview.
The client resides with her adult son, aged 20. The client also has two adult daughters that each live over two hours away.
The setting in which the sessions were held, dates and length of client sessions
The sessions were held at Dr. Hay’s Owen Sound Office, Feb 15, 2007 and Feb 21, 2007. The intake interview was 1 hour, 15 minutes, and the subsequent interview was 45 minutes in duration.
The presenting issue and/or problem from the client's perspective The client is upset because of her son’s behaviour. Her son took an overdose of her pills, and lay down in the bed to die. There was no suicide note, and he picked a time when no one would be home for quite a while. The son researched what would be a lethal dose of the mother’s medication, and then ingested twice the lethal amount. However the mother come home unexpectedly and found the son in his room unconscious. The son was transported to the hospital and expected to die. Fortunately, the son had also ingested Lasix with the sleeping pills (unnamed) and therefore a lethal dose was washed from his system (CPS, 2006). The patient’s son recovered with no known physical effects from the overdose. The second and most trouble difficulty for the client is the son’s behaviour since recovering from the overdose. The son has refused to discuss the attempt with any caregivers from the unit within which he now resides. He participates in group therapy, but only insomuch as to talk
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