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Students will select an ethnical group for their case study client, then discuss cultural considerations (include beliefs, values, family, and their views on disabilities). Students will also discuss how, as the counselor, these considerations will be addressed. Use an ethic/racial group other than your own. Respond to two of your classmates.

Note: You will be using the same client Lena Price.

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Intake Interview Lena Price 47 year old Caucasian stay at home mom .Lena has a 14 year old daughter Kelly Price and a 3 year old son Lance Price with diseased husband Sean Price. Lena shot and killed her husband two years ago in self-defense after he pushed her down a flight of stairs and she crawled to try and get away as he held her down with his gun to shoot and kill her. Lena states that 6 months before pushing her down the stairs her husband hit her in right leg twice with his golf clubs. Lena has experienced severe back pain, walks with a limp, and has nightmares at least four times a week now since the incident with her husband. Lena and her two children have been living with her parents since the accident and she is now ready to try and find a job and get out on her own for her children. Lena would help with her dad’s construction company in the office doing secretarial work off and on for the past 13 years and feels that office work would be good for her. Lena wants to find an apartment once she gets a job. Lena does not really socialize with her friends that she has had for years and does not go out that much in public because she feels like people stare and gossip behind her back. Lena’s daughter ( Kelly) blames her off and on for her dad death and has angry outburst towards her mother on a weekly basis since losing her father. Lena states that she has tried to get counseling for her but daughter she has no insurance for the last two years. Lena states that she wants to get a secretary or office position or a job that she can work from home. Lena states that she is unable to stand up for long periods of times since both her legs were broken from the fall in addition to the pain from prior abuse. Lena states that she feels like she needs a cane but does not use it because she does not want people to turn her away when she applies for jobs. Lena states that she does not want to be viewed as useless. Lena states that she did not finish high school but she tried to get her GED but her husband at the time informed her that she did not need it. Lena dropped out of school when she was in the 10th grade. Lena seeks vocational skills that she can obtain to help her get a job to support her family. Lena is worried about if she will find a job, how she will afford food, and if her daughter will ever receive counseling, and if she should as well for her nightmares. Lena states that her parents state that all she needs to do is pray and that things will get better and they will continue to help her. Lena states that her son does not walk and barely talks. Lena states that he is still in diapers. Lena shows signs of depression, PTSD, and low self-esteem during interview when discussing the things in her life.
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Lena Price is a 47-year old Caucasian woman who stays at home partly due to physical and
psychological disability and partly because she is a mon who has to bring up her daughter and son.
She finds herself in low self-esteem, depression and nightmares that torment her on a weekly basis.
Coupled with this, she does not have a job, an apartment for herself and her children especially her
son Lance who is still in diapers at age 3 and her daughter Kelly is always stressing her with
nightmares and questions about her father’s death.
From a cultural point of view, a family is complete in the presence of the father, mother
and children. On Lena’s part, she is finding herself having to assume the full responsibility of
bringing her children up. She sustains physical disability that she sustained from the torturous
assault that was directed to her by her husband. She walks in limbs. She has to isolate herself
because she feels a social misfit. Socially and culturally, people in the society are likely to not look
at the bigger picture pertaining the potential that Lena still has. They are likely to gossip her
because of the action that shed did of killing her husband. The action of killing a human being is
mostly consid...


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