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Bowen's Self-Esteem: A Case Study

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The client began the session talking about her school work and she was worried that she wouldn’t be able to learn effectively in class because she had to skip classes for her cheerleading competition. Moreover, she thought she had not been doing well in class lately, because she couldn’t understand the class content, even though she had read course readings and asked for help from friends. This affected her self-esteem, as she stated that “I feel stupid” for not being able to get the concepts like her peers did. The client recounted that she had talked to the professor, however, she believed “the conversation didn’t go so well,” because the professor thought that she had not read carefully enough.
The client said she felt stressed because she …show more content…

This explains why the client had trouble trusting that her boyfriend didn’t use her, because her low self-esteem made her think she was not good enough for the relationship. Being unable to communicate her emotions further strained her relationship with her boyfriend, as she talked about how she usually suppressed her feelings, yet they would come out in unexpected times and caused “mini fights” with her boyfriend.
Family theory: Bowen’s family structure: emotional distance. The family projection process describes the primary way parents transmit their emotional problems to a child.
The concept of emotional cutoff describes people managing their unresolved emotional issues with parents, siblings, and other family members by reducing or totally cutting off emotional contact with them
Person in environment
On the other hand, client possesses many strengths that can help her address these problems. She is proactive and volunteer to reach out for help. The client is very aware of her problems and she understands what the causes are. She has a great potential social support group that she can depend on, such as her friends and her boyfriend, if she can disclose her feelings with them. She participated in extracurricular activities that are enjoyable to

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