Sudipa Sarkar
Identifying data
Jesus is a twenty two years old Latino male who lives with her wife Daniela, 21 years old. Jesus is married for two years and they have one three years old son and they are expecting their second child in approximately within five months. He has been physically and verbally abusive to his wife. While showing aggression in some situations resulting unpleasant consequences, Jesus reports about his controlling ability over his temperament. Jesus is now working in a fast food restaurant as a cook, where he used to take 4-5 beers per day with his co-employees. Jesus reports that he is more sexually oriented when he is in good mood and it is not initiated by aggression rather by the release of tension. Jesus reports of having sleeping disorder. However, Jesus previously considered about suicidal ideation, whereas, at the time of interview he asserts he does not possess this thought any longer. Jesus also reported about having a stressful childhood memories.
Presenting Problem
Jesus is a twenty two years old Latino male who lives with her wife Daniela, 21 years old. Jesus is married for two years and they have one three years old son and they are expecting their second child in approximately within five months. He has been physically and verbally abusive to his wife. While showing aggression in some situations resulting unpleasant consequences, Jesus reports about his controlling ability over his temperament. Jesus is now working in a fast food restaurant as a cook, where he used to take 4-5 beers per day with his co-employees. Jesus reports that he is more sexually oriented when he is in good mood and it is not initiated by aggression rather by the release of tension. Jesus reports of having sleeping disorder. However, Jesus previously considered about suicidal ideation, whereas, at the time of interview he asserts he does not possess this thought any longer. Jesus also reported about having a stressful childhood memories.
Presenting Problem
The probation officer referred Jesus for therapy while he came into attention of the court on a charge of a simple assault and was sentenced to 100 hours of community service as well as 100 hours of therapy. He is having no or little social skills and has a hard time fitting in the community to behave with people in a justified manner. According to the court case against Jesus, it is described that a fifty year old woman has been battered by Jesus for acquiring the parking space which Jesus desired for some time. Moreover, Jesus is not capable of understanding the level of infringement made by him whatsoever and is trying to minimize the scenario either by inflicting the fault on the woman in question or by minimizing the consequences of the violation occurred by him. The same thing happens in his home also, where he becomes very assertive while he reports about the condition of her wife after a domestic violence, that she does not need any medication or she herself is the problem.
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3. Rathus, J. H., & O’Leary, K. D. (1997). Spouse-specific dependency scale: Scale development. Journal of Family Violence, 12, 159-168.
4. Dutton, D. G. (1995). Intimate abusiveness. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 2, 207-224.
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6. Browne, A. (1993). Violence against women by male partners. American Psychologist, 48,1077-1087.
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