Psy 270 Week 6 Substance Abuse Case Studies

Later in the interview she reported that she had been experiencing fear and anxiety that the worst could happen to her. Ms. NS elaborated on the response that there would be always a possibility that unthinkable events could happen, especially after she had already encounter events like losing her home, getting kicked out from her Godmother’s house, and losing her grandmother and friend around the same time.

Precipitating Factors and History of the Problem Ms. NS reported that she and her family lost her grandmother around two years ago. Upon the loss of her grandmother, Ms. NS stated that the house she had lived in as long as she could remember had to be sold. The main reason for the unanticipated selling of her home was because the deed

NS has a sister who is 9 years older. Ms. NS reported that she and her sister had been very close to each other. She elaborated on the relationship with her sister that they feel safe to talk about anything. However, Ms. NS stated that the relationship with her parents was otherwise. Although her mother had been always a stay-at-home mother, Ms. NS illustrated that she and her mother would not like to talk about their feelings and emotions with each other. Ms. NS randomly mentioned that she and her sister were recently talking about her mother that she might have always been autistic. Following the comment, Ms. NS revealed that her mother seemed to have lack of understanding in “Theory of

NS reported that her relatives she knows of are only from her mother’s side. Ms. NS indicated that her father’s relatives still reside in Mexico and have almost no contact with them. Ms. NS stated that, as far as she could remember, her mother’s sisters had always been talking behind Ms. NS’s family. The only relative she could count on was her grandmother who had past away two years ago. Ms. NS described that any of her aunts took care of her grandmother even when she was ill. Ms. NS expressed that she was often frustrated with her siblings that her family had been always the one to cook, clean for her and took her to the doctor’s office.

Ms. NS reported that her grandfather left her grandmother when Ms. NS was still little. She stated that, because her grandfather had never been involved with her mother’s life, she neither knew who he was nor where he had been for all these years. Ms. NS recalled that she unknowingly ran into her grandfather at her uncle’s wife’s funeral one day, as she randomly greeted visitors. Ms. NS described that her mother came behind her and spoke in a low voice that this old gentleman was her