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For this assignment, you will complete a case conceptualization for a hypothetical student. You were assigned one of three student scenarios about a hypothetical student while at the residency. For this assignment, assume you have worked with the student in that scenario at least twice and have completed a thorough review of the cumulative folder containing the student’s information. In this assignment you will:
- Identify any academic, social/emotional, and career issues affecting the student.
- Identify and discuss any possible risk factors for the student.
- Identify any additional issues/needs of the student’s family.
- Explore any legal or ethical implications of the student’s case and recommend actions to mitigate legal or ethical risk.
- Discuss possible aspects of the case that may affect your ability to build a therapeutic relationship (explore your possible biases).
- Discuss possible interventions—including opportunities for collaboration and consultation—and provide the rationale behind your recommendations.
- Write clearly without grammatical errors, following APA style and format requirements.
Scenario 3 – Janeen is an African American student in her junior year of high school. She has been skipping school and her grades have been dropping for the last month. Her family is putting pressure on her to improve or she will be transferred to a private boarding school in another state. Janeen’s father is a Baptist minister and the family is very active in the church. Janeen tells you she was “born in the wrong body” and feels like a male, but is too afraid to tell her parents because they will disown her. She has been bullied for dressing like a guy.
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Running head: AN INQUIRY INTO JANEEN’S ISSUES
An Inquiry into Janeen’s Issues
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Introduction
In our current society, gender identification is slowly becoming a big issue. There are
people who feel that they are in the wrong body while others find it hard to identify their own
gender. This affects many people and in most cases, children suffer the most because of the
confusion. The situation has become such a serious one because there were parents who recently
refused to identify the gender of their baby after birth. They said it will be up to the child to
choose the gender it wishes once it’s all grown up. Such issues are facing the society and Janeen
is one of them. She feels that she is in the wrong body because she identifies herself more with
the opposite gender and the only thing coming between her and the gender she prefers is her
body. Coming from a Christian family, she is afraid of saying it because she is sure that her
parents might not support her ideas of being in the wrong body and probably changing to suit
herself. This is why Janeen is suffering so much. Due to this problem she sought the help from a
professional counsellor who would help her understand the issue at hand and how to deal with it.
Academic, social, and emotional issues
As a counsellor, the first thing will be to understand Janeen’s background by analysing
her academic, social and emotional issues. Janeen’s problems are multifaceted. In the first place,
she has problems with academics in that she has been performing poorly in school. Socially, she
belongs to the United States’ largest minority race, African Americans. Being a black American
child, she is subject to both real and perceived discrimination, indignity, stereotype, and
prejudice among other social problems faced by the black community. There is also a family
problem in that Janeen feels isolated in the family.
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Her parents her staunch Baptists who are too much into the church than the family.
Lastly, she is emotionally disturbed. Her transgender condition is a cause of emotional
disturbance because her conscience is pushing her to expose it, but she is afraid that her parents
will disown her if she did so. This puts her in a state of self-denial. Her transgender sexuality
also makes her lonely because she does not feel appreciated and free to associate with her parents
and peers. As a vulnerable youth, all these problems conspire to make Janeen emotionally,
psychologically, physically and socially unstable. This instability is compounded by the pressure
her parents her...
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