Learning team C Robin Clark – Pscychiatrist Brandi Rees - Psychologist Justin Pote – Social Worker Lewis Wheatley –Mental health counselor Marissa Walker – Self- help group leader My plan is to identify a crisis client and how we as a team with the different assigned roles collaborate to help the client, below are these notes. * Many people have mental illness or problems in their lives. As Human Services professionals, it takes many helpers to deal with the different aspects of the problem. Here we are going to look at a case study of client Jane Rose: Crisis situation- Client Jane Rose is a single mother of two children ages 2 and 4. Since her husband left her shortly after the birth of her second child.
She also consumes one to two drinks of brandy per week. She has owned a gas station for the past 12 years. She is single and not sexually active. Data Obtained From Nursing Assessment System review reveals a thin woman with complaints of increasing fatigue and weakness for the past 3 to 4 months, increased frequency of bowel movements—now “watery”—hyperactive bowel sounds, 9-pound weight loss over the past six weeks with a noticeable increase in appetite—“I’ve lost weight without even trying”—and slight hand tremor. Ms. Kissinger complains “my eyes look like they are bulging.” .
http://www.ndhealth.gov/diabetescoalition/ Meet ‘M.G.’ Diabetes Case Study M.G. is a 58 y/o white female who presents to her primary care physician with a complaint of “tired all the time.” It’s been going on for several months, and she doesn’t report any concerns with nighttime sleep. She doesn’t note any new stress or other life changes, and denies depression or anxiety. Alcohol consumption is limited to one to two drinks per week, and she quit smoking over 10 years ago. Family history is notable for type 2 diabetes in an older sister; her mother had hypothyroidism and “heart disease.” The patient also has high cholesterol that she has been trying to treat with “weight loss and exercise.” She walks about 20 minutes three times weekly when the weather allows.
She believes his treatment of her is due to her ending the relationship. Alice is experiencing difficulties sleeping and concentrating. She states she is getting only a few hours of sleep each night, is becoming increasingly depressed, and often tearful. Alice denies any increase in alcohol or drug use. Alice’s symptoms have lasted at least three months and appear to be getting worse.
Three years ago, Anna’s dog Lucky, whom she had had for 16 years, was run over by a car and killed. Anna’s daughter reports that since that time Anna doesn’t do a thing for herself anymore. She has lost weight, rarely leaves her home, and just sits and talks about Lucky. Anna’s behavior would be considered maladaptive because: C: Her grief is interfering with her functioning. 2.
1288 women (mean age 28.7 years) hospitalized for cesarean or vaginal delivery were enrolled. Patients were contacted and a computer-assisted, scripted telephone interview was conducted by the Research Survey Center of Wake Forest University to assess the presence of persistent postpartum pain, intensity, frequency, location, treatment and impact on daily activities,
The story goes by and the setting does not change, that is why the woman goes crazier and starts crawling into the wallpaper trying to help get the woman out. It is not to late before she realizes that she is insane and the woman she tries to get out of the wallpaper is only herself. There is also some kind of irony in the story because her husband puts her into that room without activity or work to help her problem. But the irony is that instead of helping her, it just makes the woman more insane because she imagines more things. The setting impacted the character in the story because the woman was in that lonely room the whole time and the woman just felt more insane.
The woman even goes so far as to describe her lack of interest in her child by saying, “It is fortunate Mary is so good with the baby. Such a dear baby! And yet I cannot be with him, it makes me so nervous” (Gilman 314). The woman, in addition to her loss of interest, also suffers from trouble sleeping and feeling tired much of the time. “I think sometimes that if I were only well enough to write a little it would relieve the press of ideas and rest me.
Elizabeth on the other hand was rather nervous about the situation and guilt began to eat away at her. The guilt had a strong effect on the younger girl. She became rather distracted, and confused. She babbled nonsense, woke up screaming at night, and became weak, refusing or even forgetting to eat. But her guilt did not give her the courage to report to Reverend Parris what was taking place, and so the meetings continued.
She tells me that at least three of those admissions were due to serious suicide attempts. She was in a coma for three days following one attempt. She has been diagnosed with major depressive disorder, OCD (for hair pulling and hand washing). She also suffers from bulimia and says it is not known which psychiatric issues, if any, are directly connected with that assault. Ann says that soon after she had her son, two years later, she did not want to be around men, and for nearly ten years, she did not date or have any close relationships with men.