Case Study

a. Personal Data Summary

Name:                            Arsenio Mabutas De Asis
Age:                                 14 yrs. old
Gender:                         Male
Grade level:                Grade 3
School's name:          Rene Cayetano Elementary School
Birth Order:               Youngest


Family Background


Father's name:           Edmundo Sacay De Asis (deceased)
Mother's name:          Veronica Mabutas De Asis (deceased)
Siblings:                        Justin De Asis
                                          Jackelyn De Asis
Guardian:                    Pstra. Mila De Asis

b. Joining process

             As identified by his guardian, Pstra. Mila De Asis, the client is aggressive in a way that he is inexpressive to his wants and needs. his behavior according to the family is easy to get angry.
            For these reasons, the client is being referred to be my client by his guardian to undergo appropriate therapy for his maladaptive behavior.

c. Presenting problem

         Being an adolescent, his family described the client as extremely aggressive. through their strong description about the behavior of the client, it seems that the client is really experiencing problems which he is not sharing to anyone. his immediate change of behavior is unpredictable. his guardian believed that the death of the client's father can also be one source of the client's problem. as a result, when he is getting annoyed or irritated, he easily punches them and the worst, threatened them by getting knife or anything similar to it. 

d. Psychosocial History

d.1 Timeline

         4 years old    8 years old           10 years old            11 years old

 - death of his ,       -  first attended       - stopped attending      - He and his family went 

  mother on           formal schooling,     school when he was      to Manila and lived    in  

  year 2001          year 2005                    grade 3, year 2007       their relatives, 

                                                                                                              year 2009

         12 years old             13 years old           13 1/2 years old     14 years old

      - he attended school   - he was trans-        - he first attended      - Death of his father,

       again but got back       ferred to ano-           Sunday School in     June 27, 2010

       to grade 1 again,          ther school            Good News Christian

       year 2009                     from private           Church, year 2010

                                              to public, year 

                                              2010                      

               Most of the significant events in time line seemed to be more negative. These are possible reasons of the maladaptive behavior of the client. Negative events happened almost every year. This made me predict that the client may experience trauma to the negative events happened in his life.

d.2 Genogram

       Both of the parents of the client were now dead. As seen in the genogram above, there's nothing wrong about the relationship of the client and to other family members.




d.3 Family Sociograph

      Even though the client is very aggressive, he is not the least chosen by the members of his family as shown in the sociograph. Jackelyn, elder sister of the client, is the least chosen by the member of the family. the client said that he really don't like his elder sister and his cousin thyn because they usually annoys and scolds him.

classmates sociograph

          Out of 24 students, only one chose the client as one of his friends. no students stated that they are having bad relation towards the client. Those students whom chosen by the client did not choose the client in the top three of their friends.

d.4 Personality Dynamics for Self-Mastery

             The client can be able to determine if he have done something that is not permissible by the authorities but still does whenever no one is around. The child can undersdand scriptures from the Bible but lacking of application is observable.

d.5 Personality Dynamics for Relationship

       Based on the information gathered, he has good relationshiptowards his friends but not to his family. He is very resentful to his elder sister and sually have quarrels together. He is not expressive to his family members. Only his friends know what he usually does outside.

d. 6 Personality Dynamics for Action

              When he is in the good mood, he doesn't complain about anything ut just obey what was being commanded. When being scolded, he is not shouting or say any bad words, he is showing his disobedience in some ways.

               He is not expressive to his family that's why his family doesn't know the reason of his maladaptive behavior. He can be only express his emotions through aggressive behavior like kicking, punching and throwing objects.

            

E. Theoretical Framework

             The environment that surrounds the client greatly affect the behavior of the child. When he is so attach to any people or events, when lost, it can also be a source of his maladaptive behavior. There are many people responsible for the molding of the client's character not just only the teachers or the parents, but also everyone.

F. Prognosis