¶ … 1989-1990 antidepressant medications were not approved for use on nine and ten-year-olds and this poor kid is put on antidepressants immediately after his father dies. Then of course the kid experiences mood swings which get worse and he is eventually diagnosed with bipolar disorder (of course no one considers that a fairly common side effect of antidepressant medications is mania). Secondly, we have a troubled young man that comes from an unstable home who is immediately tossed into grief therapy right after the death of his father. I cannot think of a more obvious way to tell a nine-year-old he is sick- that there is something wrong with the way he feels. So I guess no nine-year-old ever went through such an incident without professional help-I mean what did kids who experience tragedies do before we had professional counselors? I guess they all went crazy and then grew up as maladjusted adults. Third, the author says that grief is indistinguishable from major depression. I strongly disagree, although depressed mood is often part of grief, they are diagnostically distinct, that is why one is called bereavement and the other is depression. The author should at least read the DSM (here it would have been the DSM-II-R) if he is going to work with clients in a mental health setting. And then of course later they hospitalize the poor kid- too much. Let's look at the description of Martin's home life before he was diagnosed with all these issues "chaotic due to his father's alcoholism and bipolar disorder" (Golden, 2002; p. 143). One is left to wonder how much of his issues were family related (a "revelation" that appears to occur to everybody after about two years of misguided treatments) and premorbid. The kid's father dies and mom decides to toss him into treatment even with all his premorbid issues? Where was the concern prior to all of this? We are also left to wonder about other potential disorders that may have complicated things such as ADHD that appear not to have been considered. Perhaps Martin's mother could have provided more attention and nurturing to him once his father died...
We will never know how a little understanding, love, and consideration would have worked for him. All in all this case is handled very poorly, but fortunately has a happy ending. This ending is more a result of Martin's resiliency than to the interventions involved.
This entire process aids a client to seek and see the humor in life experience. Communication is also extremely significant since it helps by preventing any feelings of inferiority by the client since the counselor is viewed as an equal instead of a superior (Knoff, 2002). A therapist ought to make the client to view him or herself as the perfect authority in his or her own way experience; therefore,
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