Psychology Case Study on Major Depression

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J.A is a 42 years old Latino male who comes into therapy at the suggestion of his wife to whom he has been married for 20years. After niceties and normal pleasantries aimed at making J.A comfortable, he tells me that he cannot be able to get himself to get out of bed every morning and more so he does not think that he has a reason to get out of bed and face the world. J.A has just been laid off from his job as an architect that he has been holding for the past 25years, his children are all grown up and have left home to be on their own and start their own families. “ I wish I could just go to sleep and not wake up. My kids are gone; my wife has a great career, lots of friends, and what do I

have-nothing! Why bother at all? J.A says during therapy, during therapy J.A admits that he cannot gather will to deal with loss or change and that he has suffered depression in the past. J.A is against therapy because he feels that no one can help him and that he does not think that he will ever be happy again. Culturally from a human diversity perspective, J.A’s ethnicity might have great contribution to his psychological state. J.A claims to have nothing and no friends. Past history of racism towards the Latinos saw them discriminated from employment. The assumption of such a belief by J.A would consequently trigger a negative pattern of thought so as to view his situation as that one arising from discrimination and segregation. This is likely to lead to the onset of a major depressive state

The DSM IV criteria for diagnosis in psychotherapy has been successful in the rejuvenation of psychiatric diagnosis and currently predominates in the conceptualization of human mental disorders. The criteria is categorically taxonomic and has adequate phenomenological orientation because of its empirical nature. J.As disinterest in all his previous activities and his hypersomnia can be conclusively used...