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In order to deal with the ups and downs of life, the Mcallen family has decided that Bliss and Fabio will go to therapy to help solve their problems in their marriage and balancing their work and family life together in couples counseling. Bliss's life isn't what she might have expected nor predicted but she continues to make the best out of her situation.

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In the midst of all the ups and downs in Bliss' life, her husband Fabio was recently diagnosed with depression after the lost of his job, his sexual performance, and other traumas in his life. Fabio has been struggling with depression symptoms  since he was 15 years old but was recently official diagnosed after the loss of his job.

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Bliss recently had to testify against her male colleague for sexually harassing  and assaulting multiple co workers and patients at her practice.
(Weiten, Dunn, & Hammer, 2018)

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Bliss was sexually expressive as a teen but not because of her relationship with her parents. She was sexual expressive according to Christopher, Johnson, & Roosa because she had peers that perceived sexual behavior more strongly.
(Christopher, Johnson, & Roosa,1993)

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Bliss was close to her aunt. Bliss' parents saw how much money her aunt use to make as a doctor and encouraged her to in the medical field. Since her aunt was a doctor, Bliss was able to find information using her aunt and was able to shadow her in the hospital.
(Weiten, Dunn, & Hammer, 2018)

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On Figure 16.1 in the textbook, Bliss falls under languishing. Her mental illness is low on the spectrum as well as her well-being. She's under a lot of stress with her financial issues and problems with her husband. Since he lost his job, he became mildly depressed.
(Weiten, Dunn, & Hammer, 2018)

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Due to her husbands' stress of losing his job and no longer feeling like a man since he is not providing for his family, he is unable to perform. Fabio suffers from erectile difficulties meaning that he is unable to maintain an erection adequate for intercourse with Bliss. He tries to hide this from Bliss yet it doesn't work and in fact, upsets her because she feels like it is her fault.
(Weiten, Dunn, & Hammer, 2018)

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Bliss is in a monogamist relationship with her husband Fabio. Bliss also practiced Endogamy when she married a fellow Hispanic person whom she meets from working for his father during nursing school. During Bliss' second child she went into severe eclampsia and almost lost her child and her daughter's life. After Bliss and her daughter recovered she and Fabio was hit hard by expensive medical bills which impacted their marriage. Seeing what this may do to his family Fabio decides to step up to pay off the medical bills. Recently because of Aunt Janelle's dramatic passing, they used most of the money to pay off the medical bills. (Weiten, Dunn, & Hammer, 2018)

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Bliss has a close group of girl friends who have been her emotional support through her life. Bliss and Fabio had open communication in beginning of their relationship but after having children and money troubles have been distant and using avoidance to maintain their relationship. (Weiten, Dunn, Hammer, 2018)

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It is stated in the original description that she was raised in a world where one sex had no choice but to be both sexes. Traditional division of labor is comforting for her. Bliss is deeply set in stereotypical gender roles. Women are still expected to be a wife and mother and fill traditional female roles in the home like cooking and cleaning and taking care of the children but, because of equal rights movements, women are also expected to have a job and be able to provide for themselves and help the husband, but they can't make more money than the husband because the man is supposed to be the breadwinner of the household.  (Weiten, Dunn, & Hammer, 2018)

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Bliss's Aunt Janelle was a brain surgeon who inspired Bliss to become a nurse. Janelle just got off of a 36 hour shift at the hospital and was on her way home when she was involved is a head on car crash which killed her. Unfortunately she died due to the accident and since she was unmarried and had no kids Bliss inherited all of her life insurance money and pensions she had.  Bliss received $850k

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Bliss tends to be more openly self-disclosing, an effective listener, and when it comes to conflict she is a collaborator meaning she has a high concern for herself and others. (Weiten, Dunn, & Hammer, 2018)

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Because Bliss works in the medical field, she tends to stereotype based on physical attributes. She tends to go along with basic medical stereotypes, instead of basing her opinions on her patients health and lifestyle. Referring to her culture and personality, her social thinking and influences are strongly rooted in collectivism. Instead of basing her opinions on individual thinking, she goes along with others' opinions without doing her own research. (Weiten, Dunn, & Hammer, 2018)

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Bliss feels that her ideal self is the poster child for how to do better than the last generation. Her actual self is controlling and a perfectionist. This conflict between her ideal and actual self could cause more stress. (Weiten, Dunn, & Hammer, 2018)

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Poor Nutrition and its effects on health

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Poor Nutrition and its effects on health

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As a nurse, Bliss doesn't take her health into account. She works long hours and eats when she can. The amounts of stress she undergoes also effects what she wants to eat. She normally sticks to comfort foods and lots of caffeine. Bliss also prepares most meals for her children, so she doesn't usually have the time to prepare a proper breakfast or lunch for herself. (Weiten, Dunn, & Hammer, 2018)

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Christopher, F.S., Johnson, D. C. , & Roosa, M. W. . (1993). Family, Individual, and Social Correlates of Early Hispanic Adolescent Sexual Expression. The Journal of Sex Research, 30(1), 54–61.

Hamarat, E., Thompson, D., Zabrucky, K. M., Steele, D., Matheny, K. B., & Aysan, F. (2001). Perceived Stress and Coping Resource Availability as Predictors of Life Satisfaction in Young, Middle-Aged, and Older Adults. Experimental Aging Research, 27(2), 181–196. https://doi.org/10.1080/036107301750074051

Weiten, W., Dunn, D.S., & Hammer, E.Y. (2018). Psychology applied to modern life:
Adjustment in the 21st century. Boston: Cengage

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"Collectivism is putting group goals ahead of personal goals and defining one's identity in terms of the groups to which one belongs" (p 54). Taught rather traditional Latin values. Once, Bliss would've rebelled against such gender-conforming.  This is an example of collectivism because bliss did not grow up religious and when she got with Fabio and his family who are more religious on traditional Latin values she conformed to their beliefs for her and her children.
(Weiten, Dunn, & Hammer, 2018)

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Emotion-focused and Problem-focused strategies such as becoming more assertive  and distracting herself with work helps Bliss deal with her stress effectively.
(Weiten, Dunn, & Hammer, 2018)
Having stress and coping resources available are predictors of life satisfaction.
(Hamarat, Thompson, Zabrucky, et al., 2001)

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-death of grandmother
-husband's job is in economic decline
-penny-pinchers, frugal about money
-two young children
-breaking the stereotype of gender-roles, her husband says she was raised in a world where one sex had no choice but to be both sexes;  her husband also mentions that she finds comfort in a traditional division of labor

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Bliss has an avoidant personality and because of this fact, she tends to not worry about things until they happen such as choosing not to think about issues of her husband potentially losing his job. She ignores situations and twists reality to protect and perpetuate her own self-concepts.
(Weiten, Dunn, & Hammer, 2018)

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Age: 40
Ethnicity: Latin
Support systems: husband, children, church,  parents.
occupation: Nurse
Height: 5'2
Income level: Upper Middle Class