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1. What Are The Many Conflicts, Discrepancies, & Mixed

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1. What are the many conflicts, discrepancies, & mixed messages involved in this case? July is a mixed bag of emotions and uncertainties at the moment. She claims to be unable to study for the Bar exam due to ‘turmoil’ in her life, but her son attends kindergarten and she is unemployed. She is ruminating about her life, “of all the things, constantly happening”, but besides needing to study and feeling lonely nothing else has been reported that is occurring that would prevent her from studying. Moreover, July is hopeful that the man she had an affair with which resulted in the birth of an illegitimate child can be a good father and a good husband. This is in spite of the fact that he explicitly stated that not only will he not remarry …show more content…

3. Evaluate the change process via the Client Change Scale. Given the plethora of conflicts, discrepancies, & mixed messages in July’s initial story she is clearly in the level 1 stage of denial. She also exhibits parts of the level 2 stage of partial examination as she understands that passing the Bar exam will grant her independence but still professes her need of her former boss. If July can come to terms with her current situation, how she got into it and what it will take to get out of it then the level 3 stage of acceptance & recognition, but with no change is possible. Level 4 is possible but only after time will tell. Reaching the level 5 stage, while not impossible may prove to be improbable until July recognizes what healthy relationships entail. Case Study: Finding Family Balance in Greece 1. What skills would you use to help Katerina clarify her feelings & resolve her conflict? Katerina, like July, is also in need of an empathic, effective confrontation with special regard to reflection of feeling to deal with her ambivalence toward her family and her professional life. On one hand Katerina states that family comes first. That she ‘would like to be there when she is needed; that she ‘wants’ to prepare her children’s meals and help with their homework. But on the other hand she is so busy at

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