Reference no: EM133635021

Assignment:

1. Provide a diagnosis (make sure that you provide the actual disorder and not a category)

2. What Perspective (Model of Abnormality) do you feel best provides an explanation of the cause of the disorder? Provide support from the case study that supports your use of this perspective(s).

3. Provide the treatment strategy for this client. Your treatment strategy should align with your chosen perspective and etiology for the development of the disorder. Provide support for your chosen treatment.

QUESTION

1. Caroline, a 25-year-old woman, was visibly frightened. She was shaking badly and had the look of someone who feared that she would be attacked at any moment. The night before she had been found cowering in the corner of a local bus station, mumbling incoherently to herself, having arrived in town minutes earlier on a bus from Philadelphia. The station manager had called the police, who took her to the hospital.

She told the interviewer that she had to escape Philadelphia because the Mafia was closing in on her. She was a school teacher, she explained, at least until the voices started bothering her. The voices would tell her she was bad and had to be punished.

Sometimes the voices were in her head, sometimes they spoke to her through the electrical wires in her apartment. The voices told her how someone from the Mafia would come to kill her. She felt that one of her neighbors, a shy man who lived down the Hall was in league with the Mafia. She felt the only hope she had was to escape. To go somewhere, anywhere. So she hopped on the first bus leaving town, heading nowhere in particular, except away from home.

Caroline had grown up in a small, rural community. She had been a good student and had participated in swimming and track as a teenager. Those around her reported that She was outgoing, friendly, and funny. She had many friends and had gotten an academic scholarship to Brown University where she studied to become a teacher.

Upon graduation she had secured employment at a local middle school where she had worked for the past two years until her symptoms had made it impossible for her to continue.