Clinician Case Study: Bmod's Return Home

Julia’s character develops throught the novel, “The Age of Miracles.” In chapters 1 and 2, Julia is brought onto the story as a sweet and innocent girl. She is an only child and lives with her mom and dad. She never breaks the rules, does not talk back to her parents, and is always thinking of the consequences before she does something. Throughout the novel, Julia begins to what and who she has in her life. Her family begins to get torn apart and she loses many friendships. She begins to notice the changes her family, her friends, and also herself.

Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portrait with Loose Hair is an accurate portrayal of the artist because it clearly demonstrates her need to appease her husband, Diego Rivera. Frida Kahlo met Diego Rivera at school and was captivated by a mural he was working on. He encouraged her artwork and together they created outstanding works of art throughout Mexico (Biography.com Editors). However, like all relationships, Kahlo and Rivera’s had a bumpy path filled with affairs, causing Kahlo to believe that she was never enough for Rivera (Reef). At the bottom of her self-portrait she writes that she is only 37 years old, when at the time she was 40. The reason for her use of the incorrect age is believed to be that she wanted to pretend that she was the young girl

Writer and novelist Amy Tan in her essay “Mother Tongue”, narrates that speaking “broken” or “fractured” English is not a bad thing. Tan’s purpose is to show the readers her interpretation of different Englishes and what affect her mother had on her.

Rejection can make one feel alone, helpless, and out of place, and it’s a feeling that can make someone feel like they are no good, or that they aren’t worthy of a good life. All throughout the story, we are given examples of how the young girl is shamed and rejected. She was never accepted for who she was and this made her do things, sometimes extreme to help out her family. She knew she would never fit in, and her actions proved just that.

The Crucible tells a story of how teenage girls managed to get people sent to jail, killed, depressed, or left with nothing. These teenagers lied about how someone is possessed or sending spirits after someone. The events in the Crucible that are similar due to lies could happen or still is happening to this day. There are news articles about teenagers lying to their parents, teachers, or coaches about their grades, life, or about someone else.

This is a very significant and vital lesson the reader will learn as they read about Jeannette’s life. The author, Jeannette, never really comprehended this lesson until she grew up and matured. The lesson that Jeannette, the author, is trying to convey to the readers, is that there will always be a boundary between the two different forces, order and turbulence. But one force would not exist without the other, order and turbulence come hand in hand. Life is like a seesaw with two different forces sitting on one of the two ends, to balance out life so that it’s not too heavy on one side and too light on the other. The author conveyed this message through her memoir using her childhood experiences and her life now as a grown adult. Her childhood

How bad can keeping a secret impact your life? What kind of scenarios and possibilities could come of keeping one little dark secret? In the novel Speak, Melinda Sordino, a young high schooler, has to deal with her decision to keep quiet about being sexually assaulted. Her life spirals out of control as her friends and parents grow ever more distant. She views her teachers with negative outlooks, authority as a priority fear. Even new friends she makes throughout the story abandon her because of the depression given to her by the incident that she is keeping secret. Secrets, no matter how trivial or serious, can impact your life and your relationships in troubling ways when silenced.

Mary Fisher a political activist pushing to get her voice heard, excelled. She was born in Louisville, KY and received her degree from the University of Michigan. Daughter of a wealthy Republican Max Fisher, Mary contracted HIV from her second husband and was inspired to become an activist for the prevention of HIV/AIDS. At the 1992 Republican Nation Convention Address on August 19th in Texas Fisher gave her speech, “A Whisper of Aids” representing the AIDS community. During her speech she provided words of encouragement as well as inspiration for others to find their own voice and stand up for HIV, she gave the audience education about how the virus is spreading, and left them with an image in their head that could be seen for years. Ethos, logos, and pathos were used to bring her response aboard effectively.

When I started to interview Wyonette I didn’t expect to see her the way she was. She had been slouched on her couch with a tired expression running through her body. Her make-up from the night before had made her eyes look like eyes of a Raccoon. She still had her outfit on from her night of partying. During the interview she only gave few worded answers and a few sentences here and there. This made me wonder what years of college had led to for my mother Wyonette.

paranoid everywhere she goes, even in her own apartment and is still thinking about what happened in Iraq. The main character keeps recalling what happened in Iraq with the haji and her friend Kavanagh. She feels guilty that she couldn’t protect Kavanagh and she should have died with her. The protagonist can recall the image of the haji, the look in his eyes and what he was going to do in that moment. Kalinowski never says that this character had PTSD, but you are able to infer based on her thoughts and what happened throughout the story. The character is struggling to move on with her life after her deployment in Iraq. She has been avoiding talking with her mom about her experience and is wondering whether or not she will be able to talk about what happened in Iraq. Struggling with PTSD is something that many veterans deal with after returning home.

In this case, each individual is dealing with different issues that are affecting their relationships within the family. Randy is dealing with the fact that every time he drinks, he acts inappropriate. Linda seems to care about Abby, but the relationship that Linda has with Randy is affecting Abby. Abby, feels unsafe around her dad and feels that her mother does not support her. The fact that Randy is disrespectful to Abby every time he drinks, it has made Abby not to trust her dad. For that reason, their daughter and father relationship is already damaged. Dad is not aware of his behavior when he is drunk, and even though he apologized before, his actions has already

After learning about three different compositions built about the effects of war, it has become indisputable that war leaves a terrible footprint on everyone involved, especially the minorities who are persecuted. The three sources I will discuss are Daughter from Danang, When the Emperor was Divine, and Bridge of Spies. In Daughter from Danang, Heidi’s hostility and resentment toward her birth family and culture shows the effects of war on an adopted child. Reading When the Emperor was Divine, and learning how a war can separate a father from his two kids illustrates the devastating effects of a persecuted family. Finally, watching Bridge of Spies and witnessing the terrible deeds committed during the cold war (it wasn’t even a war!), affects even people who don’t want any part of it. These three works helped me recognize how wars create discrimination and isolation, and often cause minorities to suffer in many ways.

“The Calgary Family Intervention Model is an organizing framework for conceptualizing the intersection between a particular domain of family functioning and the specific intervention” (Wright & Leahey, 2013, p.152). The CFIM focuses on promoting and improving family functioning in the domains: cognitive, affective, and behavioral aspects.

The “Barbie Doll” written by Marge Piercy relates to the complication that some girls faced in the past and also in this generation which, they are force to be something they are not. Overall, the poem is quite easy to understand because it uses some simple and standard everyday words that attracted me as a person who is not fond with poems.

Teens want to be more involved with people their own age since they understand what they could be going through, instead of their parents or any other adult. Teens act different towards each other than they do with their elders. The two have different brains which causes them to react differently in most scenarios. While processing emotions, adults have greater activity in their frontal lobes than do teenagers. Adults also have lower activity in their amygdala than teenagers. In fact, as teenagers age into adulthood, the overall focus of brain activity seems to shift from the amygdala to the frontal lobes. There was a very relevant biological example in the book which was an experience of a young girl whose best friend told another friend a secret she promised to keep to herself.