Jacob Case Study Sample

Location: Clients Home

Goal: Jacob want to learn positive coping strategies to reduce anger outbursts at home and school.

Objective: Jacob will reduce angry outbursts to 1x a month by implementing positive coping skills.
Duration: 180 days

Behaviors

Cn was well groomed. He was cooperative and engaged in discussion. He appeared moderately guarded with self-expression and needed additional probing to share in the discussion. He was able to maintain proper eye contact and focus and concentration.

Interventions

Th met with Cn in his home. Th utilized open ending questions to engage Cn In discussion to discussion to process his motivation level in completing his task as well as his frustration In home and at school. Th used probing and active listening to engage cn more in sharing and processing topic. Collaborative documentation

Cn shared that he has moderate motivation due to not earning his tablet time.

Th explored with Cn his busy skills and what he have been doing to occupy his time in the home. Cn shared that he started back drawing recently after putting it down for 3 or 5 months.

Th explored Cn reasons for staying out of the way as he reported earlier and how his mood have been due to recent med changes . Cn reports that his mood have improved some. Th encouraged Cn to identify particular signs that he have noticed that have changed. Cn shared that he notice that he have not been yelling at his sister a lot. Th discussed with Cn effort that he have to put in along with medication to help with his behavior management.

Th discussed with Cn about him following through with being more positive to his sister and his parents by giving positive compliments. Cn shared he have been putting in effort to give his sister positive compliments.

Th encouraged Cn to identify positive coping skills that he can use when he gets frustrated. Cn Identified that he reads, pet the cats when