Methadone Substance Abuse Case Study

Beth will benefit from receiving Methadone treatment in addition to therapy. Methadone as mentioned above is design specially for opiates addiction. The methadone will work with Beth to reduce her drug use. Once this happens, Beth will need individual, family and couples therapy to assist her improve every aspect of her life. My goal as her therapist is to focus on her parent’s divorced and sexual abuse and how they affected her during the years. As the therapist, I want to explore ways in which the divorced and abuse may have contributed to her substance abuse. With the individual therapy, I will work with Beth to discuss her plans for school work with her to balance her work and school. I will also explore her feelings about being exotic dancer. She is doing it for quick money to support her habit along with her boyfriend. However, as a person that have been abuse, how do she feels being in an environment that expose her in the most vulnerable way possible. Does she feel alive when dancing or is she numb?
During the individual therapy, I will also assess the trauma from being abused as young as she was. Beth innocence was taken from her from
a trust family member. As her therapist, I want to assess her feelings about being around that family member. It must be difficult being at family function knowing what that cousin did to her. In my perspective, children that experienced sexual abuse tend to placed self-blame on themselves. Has Beth blame herself for what happen and that is the reason she is okay being in the present of that cousin. When Beth told her mother about the abuse, what was her mother response? Was Marie concern at all about what her daughter through at such a young age. Did try to interfere and talk to the aunt and her daughter stopped her or she just did not care? Beth being sexually abuse between ages 7-9, makes me questions her living environment at that time. Where was the parents for this to happen to her and how did the cousin have access to her?
Beth went experience the abuse around the time her parents divorced.
Even though she reported having a good childhood, I did not think it was. She lost her father when he moved away, and her innocence was taken away from her. With that said, what does Beth consider a good childhood? It appears as if Beth mother did not have time for her because she seems to have been more concern with her personal life. Beth did not get along with her mother second husband. Why? Did he try to hurt and what was the cause of the divorced. With the individual sessions, I want Beth to talk about her past experience without being interrupted by anyone. I want Beth to explore her feelings about the abuse and divorced and the impact these things have had on her life. I believe that everything that Beth been through got her to this point in her
life.