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Case Study

SECTION A (Personal Data Summary)

Name: Leigh Jan D.C Dela Torre

Nickname: Leigh

Age: 5 1/2 Years Old

Birthday: July 13, 2005

Birthplace: Sacred Angel Lying-In

                  Phase 1 Bagong Silang Caloocan City

Birth order: Eldest

Gender: Female

Address: Phase 1 Package 3 Block 52 Lot 10 Bagong Silang Caloocan City

Mother’s Name: Riza D. C Dela Torre

Occupation: Private Teacher

Father’s Name: Bernabe R. Dela Torre

Occupation: Mechanics

Sibling: Lycie Jane

Gender: Female 

Age: 3 months old

SECTION B (The Joining Process)

               

Mrs. Baby Dela Cruz referred her 5 1/2 years old granddaughter Leigh (client) to be observed about the behavior they have noticed when her baby sister was born. The entire family member is willing to participate to help Leigh to change her behavior and also to her development.

SECTION C (Presenting Problem)

           

Leigh is 5 years old when her mother got pregnant. Before Leigh feels that she had all the attentions of her parents, as well as her grandparents and her aunties on the side of her mother since they all live in one house. When Mrs. Riza (mother of Leigh) gave birth to her second child Lycie Jane, they noticed the different behavior of Leigh, she became jealous . According to her mother, grandmother and two Aunties, sometimes they saw Leigh hurting her baby sister, pushing her hands and arms and throwing pillows to her face. Her grandmother said “we are very much worried to Leigh’s behavior”.  That’s why, she keep on telling and reminding to the mother and aunties of Leigh that when she is not around don’t let Leigh to be the one whom looks for Lycie because she might hurt her sister or might do something which is not good. According to one of her auntie, before Leigh is not acting like that, she is kind and lovable niece. She said” maybe Leigh is acting like that because she thinks that we don’t love her anymore and she feels that our attention is always on Lycie which  before she has it, that’s why she is hurting her baby sister now”.  According to the entire family members, Leigh is not yet aware of being “ate” to her new sister that’s why she is acting like that.

SECTION D (Psychosocial History)

D.1 TIMELINE

JULY 13, 2005     4 MONTHS    4 YEARS OLD       5 YEARS OLD   Birth of Leigh    Overfeeding   suffer from  schooling time/she has new                                                  Typhoid fever     baby sister

                                ·            This timeline indicates specific events happen to Leighs started from her birth until now. Leigh was on July 13, 2005, she is a healthy baby girl, and she has weighted 8.1 pounds. Ofcourse her mother, father as well as the members of the family of her mother and father are very happy having her. When she saw on her 4 months she was sent to center near to their house because of overfeeding. She was not able to breathe normally and turn her skin color to violet. The entire family really worried about her. The doctor advice to her grandmother to diet Leigh. When she was 4 years old Leigh suffered from typhoid fever. Her temperature raise to 40.2 degree Celsius she sent to the clinic near to them and the doctor bath her cold water so that her temperature will get low. The doctor gave Leigh medication. That was the most danger happened to Leigh. Now she is 5 years old she enrolled to preschool and she has a new baby sister. In this events Leigh developed jealousy.

D.2       GENOGRAM

RICK (grandfather)

BABY (grand- mother

CHE2X (auntie)

NINENG (auntie)

RIZA (mother)

LEIGH (client)

LYCIE (sister)

KIM (father)

 

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                                ·            The diagram illustrates the connection of Leigh to the member of each family. She is more attached to all the girls in the family except to her new baby sister Lycie: to her mother, to her grand mother, and to her two aunties. The broken lines represent that they are not much attached to her father and grandfather because they are working so that they don’t have enough time to be with Leigh.

D.3       SOCIO GRAPH

HOME

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                                ·            The three most like of Leigh:

·        Her mother

·        Her grand mother

·        Her Tita Nineng

                                ·            The three most unlike of Leigh:

·        Her father

·        Grandfaher

·        Baby sister Lycie

                                                                                          

SCHOOL

G1

G4

B1

G2

L

B2

G3

 

        ·            L -  Leigh Jan

        ·            B1 - Briljan

        ·            B2 - KenKen

        ·            G1-  Lyssa

        ·            G2 - Nicole

        ·            G3 -  Alia

        ·            G4 – Trisha  

·        Most like:

                                            ·            Leigh Jan

                                            ·            Briljan

·        Most Unlike:

                                            ·            KenKen

·        Most of the group choose to like Leigh Jan and Briljan and unlike KenKen because they say that he is always bullying and he is very naughty.

PERSONAL DYNAMICS          

D.4    SELF-MASTERY

                                

                                 Leigh is good in memorization. She can easily answer simple questions when she was only 3 1/2 years old. She can say clearly her full names, her age, her exact address, both mothers and fathers name. In school she is well participated in school activities. She can also know what clothes she wants to wear, can brushes her teeth alone and go to the toilet and wash by her. At her age she is little bit independent in simple things.

D.5     RELATIONSHIPS

                                

                         Leigh is much attached to her grandmother because she is the one who taking care of her when she was a baby because her mother is working as a teacher her father is also working. Her grandmother stands as her mother; she took more of the responsibility being parents of Leigh almost at the time. That’s why she is much closer to her grandmother than to her parents.

D.6    ACTIONS

                                

                                 Leigh is capable of dancing, singing, acting. She is good in writing, reading, coloring different pictures. She can recite alphabets, numbers 1-100; recite poems, read simple sentences and phrases.  She can also identify the different kinds of animals live on land, water, and air. She can also add and subtract numbers, can read the time. She is very active in school.