COUN 655 Class 8 2023 Fall by Onur Ozmen

Create a profile of a person with disability.

ozmenonur — 2023-11-02 18:05:21 UTC

Specifically;

-demographics

-a brief narrative of their personal, school and work (if any) life.

**We'll be extending the case (story) for discussing;

-The counseling implications

- Case conceptualization

2023-11-02 20:50:16 UTC

Cee is a white woman who has postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS). She is also on the autism spectrum. They have recently experienced housing insecurity that has caused them to stay at a local women’s shelter. She is currently unemployed, but has an extensive background in higher education. She dreams of eventually going back to get her PhD. However, she knows that finding stable housing is the more important option. Cee has no idea what her resources are for getting back to housing security.

2023-11-02 20:53:34 UTC

Bree is a 20-year old White woman with Crohn's disease and alcoholism. She has a large group of friends that she sees regularly and drinks with on the weekends. Bree is a undergrad student who lives in off-campus housing and works at a job near her apartment. She currently does not have a car and is experiencing symptoms of anxiety and depression.

2023-11-02 20:55:43 UTC

Nathan is a 17y/o Caucasian male with Autism. He is considered as "high functioning" on the Autism spectrum, and is currently in the SECEP Program at the local high school. He works at Goodwill with his older sister and is specifically oriented to structured/regular tasks, requiring occasional prompting. His extracurricular activities/hobbies include swimming (supervised), writing, and walking around the park with his family. He occasionally has anxiety-based outbursts which may take the form of throwing held items, screaming, or thrashing his arms.

4th grade male student

2023-11-02 20:56:18 UTC

White, age 10

Parents divorced, one younger sister

Father military, mom is a homemaker

Diagnosis with ADHD, anxiety

Qualifies for special education services under Other Health Impairment and Emotional Disability categories

Significant parental conflict, legal issues

Student has more behaviors at school according to parents, some sibling conflict at home

At school student engages in behaviors such as yelling, crying, eloping, defiance

Placed in a speciality program through special education due to behaviors being difficult to manage at zoned school

History of 2 hospitalizations for unsafe behaviors at Kempsville Behavioral Health

2023-11-02 20:56:36 UTC

Jimmy is a white man who has two prosthetic legs. He lost his legs during a tour oversees while serving the military as a Marine. He does not like being called a veteran. He is currently working in a private IT company and is trying to adjust to civilian life. He has been having difficulties trying to adjust to civilian life, and his job has also been giving him issues. The office does not accommodate some of his physical needs. His supervisor gives him a difficult time regarding his physical therapy schedule. Jimmy wants to go back to school using his GI bill, but with the issues he is having at work, he does not feel he is able to deal with school. Jimmy has a girlfriend who is supportive of him, but he often feels that he is a burden to her. Although she shows complete support for him, he still feels like he is dependent on her, and he is afraid she will end the relationship because of this.

Frank is a sixty-year-old White man with a moderate intellectual disability, Autism, and Epilepsy. Frank lives in a residential home with three other people with intellectual disabilities. He receives a small amount of money each money that is controlled by his guardian. He does not have the intellectual capacity to manage his own money. Frank participates in a group day program in order to work on his social skills. Frank is not employed.

2023-11-02 20:56:44 UTC

Army veteran

2023-11-02 20:58:56 UTC

30-year-old cisgender female with PTSD and a single amputee.

She currently does not work due her disabilities and is struggling with major depression symptoms. She spent a year in Afghanistan where she was involved in an accident involving a road side IED which lead to her amputation while serving in the Army. This injury ended her career as solider. She lives at home with her partner and does not like to engage with the public often. She reports she has been drinking to excess and often feels like her leg is still attached and c/o phantom pain. She reports she doesn’t know what life now or what her purpose is.

She has no history of psychiatric hospitalizations and believes that counseling is a waste of time as “no one can understand war and what it is to be solider”

2023-11-02 20:59:41 UTC

Andrew is a 6 year old African American male diagnosed with autism. His mother is a single mother and reports she also has 2 other children who have no disability. His teachers report that he is has difficulty with social cues and has a hard time making friends with other classmates. He excels in math but his reading and vocabulary skills are behind that of his peers.

2023-11-02 21:03:20 UTC

Jacob is a 18-year-old who recently graduated from high school. Jacob has autism and tries to live a normal life. He has been raised in a two parent home and mom often cares for him. Jacob is actively looking for a job that is willing to work with his disability, but he's worried that he will experience oppression. He plans to further his education at a community college.

2023-11-02 21:18:15 UTC

Is a 67yr old cisgender African American woman diagnosed with schizophrenia w/psychotic features in her early 20s. Her education background includes graduating from a prominent HBCU with her bachelor’s and master’s degree. She was a prominent athlete during college and active in her sorority up until she had a psychotic break and beheaded her mother. Upon her release from years of psychiatric inpatient hospitalization. She lives alone, no children, and is estranged from her family due to the death of her mother. She may hear from a sibling twice a year, however, she doesn’t know why her family doesn’t engage with her. Additionally, she was in a car accident 10yrs ago which caused severe damage to her back, and she required surgery. She continues to have sharp pains in her back and visits the doctor often. She often has nightmares of the accident and reflects on the years in which her physical health were better. She receives 914.00 a month for SSI. She wants to move to somewhere new, however, she is afraid of being judged from her past and she has no support to assist her with housing.