The client’s unconscious behavior include the tearfulness when filling the intake paper, the shaking of hands, and the halting speech. The conscious aspect of the client includes eye contact. The client is anxious and depressed from the things happening around her: loss of job, difficulty in raising the child alone, unsupportive friends and family, and the deployed military in overseas. The defense mechanism of the client is projection. According to Lichtenberg (2016), the projection is an attempt by the ego to solve discomfort by pointing to another person one’s unacceptable feelings, motives, and thoughts. The disconnect between the client and her wealthy family is a major contributing factor to her anxiety. What will be the goals of counseling and what intervention strategies are used to accomplish those goals? Counseling has various goals. First, it promotes decision making by enabling the patient to make essential decisions concerning alternative ways of approaching the problem without influence from outside. Counseling assists these individuals in clarifying their attitude and emotional concerns which can interfere with the decisions involved. By stimulating individual assessment, action, and acceptance, the person will learn the entire decision-making process. Secondly, counseling improves relationships between the individual and others. Due to poor self-image and lack of social skills, the person may act defensively in relationships. Thirdly, counseling enhances coping skills. Sometimes occupational and social responsibilities may require a person to be assertive, experience anxiety, as well as unable to perform their duties effectively. Finally, counseling facilitates behavior change hence enabling the person to define his/her life within society and to be more productive. The strategies of achieving these goals include making the unconscious become conscious and strengthening the ego for the behavior to be based more on reality than on irrational guilt or instinctual cravings (Wosket, 2016). Is your theory designed for short- or long-term counseling? For this case, the psychoanalytic theory is designed for short-term counseling. The treatment ensures that the tension between the ego, superego, and id is alleviated. The therapy is structured in with specific goals set-out. The goals are intended to reduce the client’s symptoms which include lack of sleep, not eating, and the fear of getting homelessness. The therapy is ended when the symptoms become les acute (Wosket, 2016).
Read the “Case Study Analysis.” Select one of the following theories that you feel best applies to treating the client in the case study: Bowen Family Systems Structural Strategic Write a 750-1,000-word analysis of the case study using the theory…