case study

A .PERSONAL DATA

Name: Sam Galvez

Age: 4 years old

Gender: male

Birthday: May-21-2006

Birth place: Lopez,Quezon

Ordinal position: Only Child

Siblings: None

Grade: Preparatory

Father’s name:  Elvis Galvez                              occupation: No permanent work

Mother’s name: Rosario Morello                        occupation: OFW

B. Joining Process

Ø  My client child is being referred to me by his guardian, because she notices that the client child behaves differently among other child in their neighborhood. According to his guardian the client child has a mistaken behavior that leads to being antisocial.

C. PRESENTING PROBLEM

Ø   Based on the information I gathered, according to his guardian and teacher

 The client child possess a characteristics of being unattended to the discussion or the problem of inattention, the client child has a problem with regards to math subject due to inattention that results in memory de3ficits, he can understand that 2+3=5, but cannot understand that 5-3=2, he wasn’t able to understand their lesson, he find the visual aids as destruction, he doesn’t have the ability to sort information as shown by the wrong responses that they often give when asked question about the lesson. He also has poor ability to organize information for recall. As a result of this, they notice that the client child is being emotionally disturbed, that leads to anxiety withdrawal and immaturity he even bothers to mingle with his other classmate either on his neighborhood.

            According to his guardian, in their home the client child spend most of his time by playing alone, watching TV, every time he goes out his peers will make fun of him, teasing him “bobo and walang mama at papa” the  client child didn’t bother to go out and play with other children. And according to his guardian since the client child tease by other children, she didn’t allow the client child to go outside and she wants the client child stays at their home for she thinks the client child will be safe, and his peers will not make of him.

            According to his teacher she was notice that the client child was also being bullied by his classmates especially Kenneth ad Joshua these two children keep on teasing the client child.

            According to the client child he feels being rejected by his classmates and also to his society that tends him to being antisocial.

D. PSYCHOSOCIAL HISTORY

D1. Major events in the life of the child

Ø  On the conception stage wherein his mothers do not have good relationship with his father, during his birth his parents is already loss their hope to save relationship for the sake of their child.

Ø  When the client child turn his 1 year old his parents decided to be separated to each other and the responsibilities of taking care of him goes to his mother.

Ø  When the client child reached 2 years old his grandma died

Ø  When the client child reached 3 years old his mother decided to go abroad to support his needs and wants, and leave him to his auntie.

Ø  In his new environment although it’s hard for him to adopt a new environment little by little he make an adjustment but in a kind of attitude where in he develops low self-esteem and the state of being aloof.

            D2.genogram

Ø  In the visual representation shown above, the client child do not have good relationship with his father and also to his grandparents on the father side because in the timeline (D.1) his parents got separated when he was 1 year old, so the client child doesn’t have the chance to see his father and also his father doesn’t have the chance to see his son grows old.

Based on my interview to the client child according to him, he doesn’t love his father because he did not give any support to the client child (a supposed financial support)

            D3.sociograph

Ø  In figure 1, the client child choose these 3 person that he like or love his auntie and he called it as his mama, his uncle he called him as his papa lando and her ate carol, and when I ask him who are the person he doesn’t like or love is his papa Elvis because the client child told me that his father didn’t give any support (a financial support to buy him a milk).

Ø  In figure 2, the client child doesn’t have any person he likes in the community. So he mentioned 3 names of his peers that he really doesn’t like because these 3 kids are always teasing the client child, they always told the client child that he is “bobo and walang mama at papa”.

And his auntie want the client child to be inside on their backyard, and the client child refuses to go out he wants to play alone.

Ø  In figure 3, the client child have 3 names that he doesn’t like because these 3 children are his tormentor, they make tease on the client child, their day will not be completed if they will not make tease on the client child.

            D4.self-mastery

Ø  The client child have the self mastery because based on the interview, I ask him what is his name, he answered me “Sam Galvez”, I also ask him if how old is he?

 Where does he lives?

What is his father’s name?

What is his mother name?

Where is his father?

Why does your “Kalaro” keep on teasing on you?  The client child replied and says, I am 4 years old, I live at 1569 san simoun st. cby barracks II tala Caloocan city, my fathers name is Elvis Galvez, my mothers name is Rosario Morello, I don’t know where my father is?! Because I don’t have mama and papa and I always got low scores in math.

            D5. Relationship towards everyone else.

Ø  Based on the interviews that I conduct the client child don’t have any good relationship with his peers and classmate. He prefers to be alone.

            D6.action

Ø  The client child can perform other work that his classmates can do. He can follow command, he likes to write, he can use fork to separate food, he can button front buttons on clothing, he can dress and undress with the supervision of his guardian, he likes to draw, doodle and make a sketch

E. THEORITICAL FRAMEWORK

INPUT	PROCESS	OUTPUT
Antisocial	Counseling -put him into large group activity	Mingle with other kids Make an interpersonal relationship

-based on the INPUT on the theoretical framework the problem of the client child is the result of being bullied (verbally) by his peers and classmate that leads him for being antisocial, he doesn’t want to mingle with other kids in the community and to his classmate. The concept that covers with this is the INTERNALIZING BEHAVIORAL DISORDER that creates a serious impediment to their development. The client child manifest withdrawn behavior, lack of social skills, this concept involves mental and emotional conflicts.

            The other problem of the client child is the memory problem because the client child shows difficulties in remembering his assignment, the client child forget the lesson easily and show deficits in memory. The concept that cover these problem is memory, cognitive and metacognitive problems, because the client child shows difficulties in remembering which refers to his memory, by this his cognition covers different aspect of thinking and problem solving, which connected to the metacognitive that result from lack of awareness of skills, so the client child are not aware of his skill.

            In the presenting problem the client child can understand that 2=3=5, but he cannot understand that 5-2=3. The client child does not have the reversibility. The principle that support to the statement is the pre-operational stage of cognitive development by jean piaget, wherein the children has he inability to reverse their thinking. They can understand that 2=3=5 but cannot understand that 5-3=2.

            I think the client child was emotionally disturb because he undergo being verbally bullied by his peers., that result him for anxiety withdrawal and immaturity, which support the concept QUAY’S STATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION, where in the anxiety withdrawal or anxiety disorder is manifested by social withdrawal, anxiety, depression, feelings of inferiority, guilt, shyness and unhappiness. And immaturity shows a short attention span, extreme passitivity.

            Due to the reason of being rejected by the society the client child loss his interest in participating in the discussion, for he may feel that his doing was all wrong and because  of his guardian are not allowing the client child to go outside, he may feel that going outside the house will cause him harm. Since the client child are not allowed to go outside by his guardian, he develops shame and doubt, because he thinks that he is not accepted by the society for he don’t have “mama and papa”. Which support the theory of PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT of ERICK ERICKSON in his stage two the autonomy vs. shame and doubt, where in this stage, the task is to achieve a degree of autonomy while minimizing shame and doubt?

            Since the guardian of the client are over protected they limits the freedom of the client child to explore the world, letting the client child to go outside and play with other children that who didn’t bullied others or maybe ignore those children, the client child feels that he learn from himself that he was brave enough and those kind of situation are only one of the situation that he will encounter in his life. So he will not be ashamed of what he is.

F.PROGNOSIS

            I think the problem of the client child is very common to other children, he was being bullied (verbally) by his peers and classmate that make him so depressed, he can’t focus on their lesson, so the client child think of himself negatively with self reproaches and blame. His activity level may shift to either apathetic or agitation, he avoid social contact.

            In line with this the client child possess of being antisocial.