are your reactions to what happened?
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You work with a geriatric population that is composed predominately of first-generation immigrants from Asia and Latin America. One of your Mexican clients, an 80 year-old woman comes to your session looking very serious. She begins her session by sharing that she wants to talk to you about what happened last night. She described having a conversation with her dead mother who came to give her a message. The message was that the mother was “not resting in peace” because your client was separated from her abusive husband. Your client states that her mother wants her to forgive her husband from whom she has been separated for over a decade. You have been working with this client for two years now to help her cope with the traumatic experience of living with a husband who abused her for decades.
How do you feel?
What are your thoughts? How are you making sense of the case?
What would you say to your client?
How would you chart this?
What would you do?
You are a therapist at an agency with a policy that says that if a client misses two appointments without calling, the therapy automatically terminates. A client who is a single mother, uses public transportation, has no telephone, and is often distressed by a babysitter who does not show up, misses her appointment for the second time. Your supervisor insists that you terminate by letter, given the long waiting list of potential clients.
What feelings do you experience?
What are your assumptions about the client’s not showing up? In what way, if any, might her diagnosis be relevant?
What do you think and feel about the relevance of the policy for clients such as this one?
What are your options in responding to your supervisor? To the agency policy? To the client?
Which options do you believe you would choose in deciding how to respond to your supervisor, the policy, and the client?
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