case analysis of health counseling skills as a helper and as a client
essay character study
Hope is 17-year-old female in high school who is half Mexican and half Russian.
She lives with her father afterhemother walked away from them at the age of 5. She has one older sister from her father and her mother. Then she has twohalf brothersfrom her fathers new marriage. Her older sister moved across the country when Hope was 15 years old. Hope has a very close relationship with her grandmother who looked after her most of her life. Growing up in a fast pace urban city like New York Hope feels she doesnt need to be in school to get a good paying job. Shebarleyfinished school with a GED and has no interest perusing college. Hope did go to church and was an active memberina youth group for a couple of years but then gradually as she got older she stopped going to church and began questioning the idea of God.
Hope grew upwith outa mother but she had her grandmother and it helped her cope not having her actual mother there for her. She loves her father dearly and wants nothing but happiness for him. Her relationship with her father was strong and she is very open with him because she felt very comfortable telling him anything. Hope was around her fathers side of the familyoften thereforeshe identifies as being more Mexican than Russian. Although she identifies being Mexican she clearly resembles features from her mothers side. From her blue eyes and long brown hair her father hadmentionto her that she is an exact copy of her mother physically.
Hope feels lost and cannot clearly directher selfin a path that will help her succeed in the future. All she does all day is sleep and drink alcohol. She feels that drinking makes the emptiness goes away. Every holiday her father tries to avoid buying alcohol for the festivities for Hopes sake but she has friends that would buy it for her. Her father does not like her friends but he believes if he tries to take action in her life that he would just end up loosening her just the way he lost his first daughter. Most of Hopes friends are bad influences on her but she does have other friends she met at the youth group. The youth group had tried to get her from coming back again but she constantly ignores their messages. Hope feels like a loner sometimes andfeellike no one in the world would understand her. When someone does try to get to know her she pushes them away because she fears of getting to attach to them and then they abandon her.
Hope has a job at Walgreens as a cashier butlatelyher manager is not too happy with her. He claims she is always coming in late with a hangover. In highschoolher art teacher had told her she had a gift and if she wanted a recommendation letter that would be more than happy to do it. Hope wanted to go to art school but after her older sister left the house during a big dispute with her father she no longer felt motivated to go anymore. Since then secretly atnightshe would sneak out of the house to drink with her friends and her father would have no idea. Her stepmother was nice to her but never cared enough to ask Hope how she was feeling.
Hope constantly feels sad and anxious to cope with her feelings she would drink alcohol until she passed out. Hope came home one day extremely drunk and woke up her baby brother by knocking down the TV on the floor. Her stepmother was upset and kicked her out of the house while her father was away on a business trip. Hope went to an old friend for a place to stay and her friend Emily accepted her into her house but as long as Hope seeks for help from a counselor. Hope understand she has a problem but she does not believe it will work because she has seen a counselor when she was young around the time her mother left because she would not stop crying. Ever since then Hope build a wall around her emotions and hasnt shed a tear since then.
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