Case Scenario

J. Ferguson is a 59 1/2-year-old married female that has reported feeling worried about her future. Her worrying has impacted her ability to function daily. She is having difficulty adjusting her life after experiencing the symbolic loss of her grandson. She is experiencing grief and loss symptoms. She reports her feelings of sorrow, inadequacies in her home life, work life, and social life. She also complains of difficulty going to sleep because of her frequent worrying. She is worried about being stagnant in her marriage. She wonders if she wants to stay in a marriage that has terrible communication and lacks support from her spouse. She is concerned about not being as far as she would like to be in life. She is anxious about whether she can get to the finish line as it relates to school and securing her doctoral degree.

Her history involves being married to her husband for 16 years and who is 8 years older than she and has no ambition and seems to have mild depression. Her husband is a pastor who gave up shepherding and is no longer pastoring or preaching. This is J. Ferguson's second marriage so she is also concerned about having another failed marriage.

She has a daughter, son in law, and grandson. She is estranged from her daughter and does not know why. Suddenly, her daughter seized all communications and this has caused J. Ferguson to have no contact with her grandson for the past 4 months. J. Ferguson is distraught, sad, and confused. Business is slow and she has gone from seeing 20-25 clients a week to 10-14 clients a week. This is anxiety provoking because she must have an income to pay bills and continue her education. It is also difficult because she cannot bear to look at pictures of her grandchild due to the hurt and pain of missing him. She is overwhelmed and sometime anxious about school and school assignments as she is a full-time doctoral student.

Daily she looks at her husband and worries if she still loves him or if she is staying with him out of pity and his age. All of this causes symptoms of worry, anxiety, self-doubt, and overwhelm. She tries to talk to her husband, but he does not have the capacity to listen, bear, or communicate with her so she shrugs her shoulders and does the best she can with all that she is facing and feeling. Her situation with her daughter is in the legal system and the waiting process of the court's response causes more anxiety.

Primary Presenting Issue = Anxiety

1. What Would Be The 4 Week Treatment Plan Assignment Based on Case Scenario?
2. Must Have In addition to the primary presenting issue, select 1 secondary issue from the examples provided . Select 3 short-term objectives for each meeting, and then select 2-3 therapeutic interventions to address each of these.

Each week must have 3 objectives and Each objective must include 2-3 interventions

The Treatment Plan details a problem/definition list, goals, diagnosis, & integration of objectives/interventions from the appropriate text