First of all, I’ve found that Sammy is getting lost in herself. She is confused by the question of “Who am I?” She doesn’t understand herself clearly as she even doesn’t know what she likes and dislikes. It reflected that Sammy has a problem in knowing herself; therefore, Sammy seems do not have a clear goal in her life. Hence, when she got an unsatisfactory result in her public exam, she didn’t have her own decision to determine what to do. She made choice without giving much thought and just fulfilling what her parents want her to do instead of making her own decision it leads to another problem.
Apart from this, she also has low self-esteem. I can see that Sammy keep comparing herself to others such as her classmates, her elder sister, her cousin and so on. She is lack of confidence and can not value for whom she is She just feels that everyone around her is better than her. She does not know how to appreciate herself, and just repine at her own. She thinks that she is not good as others. It revealed that the value she places on herself is a bit low.
Last but not least, Sammy has a communication problem with her family obviously. She rarely talk to her parents peacefully, and after they have a quarrel once, Sammy even just keeping her mouth shut and respond to her parents with a blank face and silence. In the course of time, the relationship between Sammy and her parents become worse as they don’t have good communication. Instead, Sammy seems avoiding to communicate with her parents since she didn’t know how to express her feelings in a correct way. In order to solve al these problems, I am going to suggest some possible solution to Sammy.
To solve Sammy’s problem, firstly, she need to know more about herself. There are four developmental areas of self (Hanna, Suggett, & Radtke, 2007) including physical self,