Shirley's Childhood: A Case Study

An event that brought significant changes during Shirley's childhood which would affect the rest of her life was the death of her father, Sam (personal communication, November 27, 2015). This was a topic that Shirley was more reluctant to discuss. Shirley remembers the last time she ever saw her biological father, she was in the first grade. It was a typical day until her father showed up at her school and told her that she had forgotten her lunch money and said goodbye to her (Shirley, personal communication, November 27, 2015). Later that day Shirley learned she would never see her father again as he had died, however, she did not exactly understand what that meant. She understood that he was gone and that she would never be able to