¶ … client is a 28-year-old, recently divorced single mother with a six-year-old daughter. She is the primary caregiver, as the father lives out of state and visits every 6-8 weeks. The father pays no child support. The divorce was due to drug abuse and infidelity on the father's part. The client is limited in social support resources; her parents are restricted from babysitting the child because of a child molestation accusation that has yet to be resolved. The inability to rely on her family for babysitting creates difficulties for the client, who attends school in addition to working. The child is also experiencing some stressors, which have manifested as an obsession with the weather and a focus on death. The client feels extreme stress due to the ongoing legal issues, financial issues, lack of paternal involvement, and inability to access her normal support network. The client is seeking help and has a generally positive opinion of the healthcare system, though she does not seem certain that the system will provide her the necessary assistance. She is also conflicted about the dual role that healthcare providers are playing in her daughter's ongoing molestation allegations, which may impair her ability to rely upon healthcare providers.
Encounters and Family Assessment
The overall impression of the family, which consists of a mother-daughter dyad, is one of insufficient resources to meet the family's needs. The client is an attentive and nurturing mother to the child, but is not able to devote as much time to the child as may be required. The client has no downtime to herself at all, and, as a result, is under persistent and significant levels of stress. This results in her being somewhat short-tempered and not always able to focus on the child. The child is focused on things that are beyond her control, such as the weather and death, which adds more stress to the client because of...
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