Posted: May 1st, 2022

Foundations of counseling discussion 7

Foundations of counseling discussion 7
Your supervisor asks you to see a client who is new to the agency.
He is 21 years of age and of Asian descent. His parents had moved
to the U.S. when this client was approximately 3 years old to give
their only son more opportunities. His parents taught him their
native language and educated him about his culture of origin.
They were a religious family with a deep sense of devotion to their
values of dignity, honor, respect and service.
He recently lost his parents in a car accident while he was serving
in Iraq 6-7 months ago. He was serving his first deployment that
started about 18 months prior. He also witnessed many of his
friends being killed by a roadside bomb approximately 3 months
into serving there.
He is recently married and his wife is 6 months pregnant with their
first child. She is starting to show signs of complications with the
pregnancy and needs to be off work and on bed rest for the
remainder of her term. He was honorably discharged to tend to
his wife and child but has not found work to support them.
This client currently exhibits severe symptoms of anxiety. He is
unable to get any rest due to worry over his wife and child. He is
having flashbacks of his friends being killed and any loud noise
freaks him out. He reports that he has also not been able to
process his parents’ deaths and feels depressed all of the time. He

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