your colleagues
The Assignment:
Respond to at least two of your colleagues by providing one alternative therapeutic approach. Explain why you suggest this alternative and support your suggestion with evidence-based literature and/or your own experiences with clients. In APA Format, provide at least 2 references no more five year old.
Colleagues Respond# 1
Counseling Adolescents with ODD
The case study I choose to write on involved the blaming adolescent. The age is not disclosed in the video, but client appears to be a middle age adolescent male. Base on the case, the adolescent has stolen a car, and he justify why he has taken the car, he placed the blame on the owner of the car because he left the keys in the car. He also stated that if the other student had not told on him, they won’t even be in counseling. He is blaming everyone for his action and doesn’t seem to see anything wrong with his behavior. He also stated that his parents are the people who need counseling, but not him. Unfortunately, he is not taking full responsibility for his bad actions but blaming others for it. He appears to believe he is innocent, and others are to blame for his actions.
Diagnosis
The client behavior may be as a result of uncontrolled emotions such as anger. According American Psychiatric Association. (2013), Disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders include conditions involving problems in the self-control of emotions and behaviors. The disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders are a group of psychiatric conditions that affect the self-regulation of emotions and behaviors that begin in childhood or adolescence (Amboss, 2018). The differential diagnosis for the client presented will be oppositional defiant disorder. The oppositional defiant disorder is classified as a pattern of angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, or vindictiveness lasting at least six months, and often blames others for his or her mistakes or misbehavior.
