Hypothetical Working Agreement

Hypothetical Working Agreement

Hypothetical Working Agreement

Scenario

Freydia is a 27-year-old mother who has been using crack cocaine for 4 years. Her children, ages 7 and 9, have been removed from her care by Child Protective Services and are currently living with her mother. Freydia comes to the drug program saying: "I want to get my children back."

Client name: Freydia Jones

Address: 1801 Looking Lane Norfolk, VA 23505

Telephone number: (757) 583-5555

Gender: Female

Age: 27

Religion: Methodist

Cultural identity: Caucasian

Sexual orientation: Heterosexual

Relationship status: single

Employment or means of support: unemployed, monetary gifts

Education: High School Diploma 6-2000

Training: none

Significant others (names, addresses, phone number):

Mother- Ann Jones (47yrs.), Daughter- Alicia Jones (7 yrs.), Son- Derek Jones (9 yrs.)

601 Walker Avenue

Norfolk, VA 23503

(757)588-5555

Presenting Problems: 4 year crack cocaine addiction, CPS removed children from her custody, unemployed.

Biopsychosocial stressors: She engaged in high crime/drug neighborhood, depression, lack of training and employable skills, peer pressure. The biopsychosocial model (suggests an integrated approach that understands psychopathology in terms of multiple causes, none of which is sufficient on its own for the development of the disorder. These factors could include biological vulnerability, the psychological impacts of life experiences as well as the influence of the social environment all of which may factor as risk variables or protective variables. The biopsychosocial model differs from more linear cause and effect approaches such as heredity in that it is only the cumulative interactive effects of the multiple variables can produce the overt disorder.

Client's strengths: Certainly, human nature is fixed. It's universal and unchanging — common to every baby that's born, down through the history of our species. But human behavior — which is generated by that nature — is endlessly variable and diverse. After all, fixed rules can give rise to an inexhaustible range of outcomes. Natural selection equipped us with the fixed rules — the ...