Case Analysis for Guidance - a Girl with Self Harm Intention

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Case Analysis The girl that I am going to talk about is Mandy, a 14 years old girl studying S.1. She studies in 1D, the weakest class across the form, and exhibits both emotional and behavioral problems during the term. She has scars all over her wrist and she said she will cut her wrist using a pair of scissors or a cutter whenever she is upset. Thrilled, she kept a pair of scissors in her pocket to make this act readily available. However, she felt ashamed of this behavior and she always wears a cardigan to cover her scars, no matter how hot it is. Besides wrist cutting, she sometimes get out of control of her temper. She has once stood up during the middle of the lesson, pointing her fingers at one of her classmates and began to swear. In another occasion, she rushed to the toilet and locked herself up for quite some time. After friends of her and teacher talked with her, she came out of the toilet, and was found having new scars at her wrist. I am her English teacher, mainly teaching the core lessons with 10 lessons per 10-day cycle. I also co-teach with another colleague in both listening and NSS lessons, which accounts for another 4 lessons in the cycle. Originally, she was not in my group. In the first 2 months, there were a lot of small incidents between her and her original core teacher, which she insisted that the teacher kept picking on her. She shows a hostile manner during each and every English lesson and arouse a lot of disturbance, which we finally decided to have her re-arranged to my group to make everyone learn better. After that, less classroom disputes appeared; however, her emotional and behavioral problems outside classroom is still unsolved. I have talked with her several times on different occasions, like talking right after her emotion breakdown, or at times when she’s more relaxed. In the discussion, she shows a lot of ill feeling
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