45). While the literature offers various ways to confront and treat the symptoms, ranging from self-help and spiritual cleansing; none of them deny the more traditional means of pharmacological intervention, especially when the depression is prolonged, persistent, and puts the patient's well-being at risk (suicidal ideations).

Treatment Plan: The plan for this client is to admit her for 3-5 days of inpatient evaluation, pharmacological intervention, and psychological testing. The patient will be oriented to group and individual counseling, which she will continue in an outpatient setting following discharge from inpatient care. Family counseling sessions with her mother and brother are recommended.

Treatment goals will be 1) to resolve the client's unresolved grief over her father's passing; 2) resolve control issues that compel client to keep her business in a pace and image of her father's business; 3) help client work through the family issues that compel her to control her mother and...

This interviewer believes that through counseling and pharmacological intervention, the patient will be able to resolve her grief and grieving; her obsessive control issues; her denial of loss; and will be able to resume her activities of daily living in a reasonable period of time.
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Rejection, Self-Worth, New York, Harvest House Publications.

Leader, Darian (2009). The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia, and Depression,

New York, Graywolf Press

Luciani, Joseph J. (2006). Self-Coaching: The Powerful Program to Beat Anxiety and Depression, New York, Wiley.