2. SUBMITTED BY:
STA. ISABEL,
PAULO
4PSY01
I. Identifying Information
The client is 20 years old, male from Nueva Ecija and his present address is in
Kamuning Quezon City Philippines. January 4, 1993 is the date of birth. Filipino. Blood
type O. Roman catholic. The client is second to the youngest from the six children of
Mr. and Mrs. De Leon. He is a third year college student in Trinity University of Asia
taking up Bachelor of Science in Hospitality and Tourism Management. He was a
student assistant assigned in Trinity Library department before. Single. Have fair
complexion, brown eyes, 5’4” in tall and has masculine physique. His father is a
registered nurse 52 years old and his mother is a housewife 47 years old. Mr. cooking
master boy have five (5) siblings. Two are married man an engineer and a seaman 29
and 28 years of age. The two older brother of Mr. cooking master boy is single, a medic
volunteer and a jobless, 25 and 24 years old. Their youngest sibling is 14 years old,
single a high school student.
II. Referral Question
As my client I sought him to undergo from my guidance, psychotherapy assessment,
and counselling sessions by using cyber counselling to enlighten him about his condition
and behaviour because as his chief complaint, he is thinking that his endeavour in
studying is still not enough to achieve his aims and having lack of financial support from
3. his family in his studies and the pressure from social life as his other central conflicts
that’s affecting his major complain.
The client is not suffering from other remarkable diseases or illness. He is physically
fit and has an active lifestyle for having regular exercise especially body building and
taekwondo as his supplementary activity. He does not want to have commitment this
time to focus more in his studying and in building his career. He justify not having many
friends at school for being irregular student. He stated that he became lonely and feels
that he is the center of attention when he is by himself. Being an irregular student gives
him difficulty in studying sometimes and establishing good relationship among his other
classmates.
The client’s suffering from his chief complaint since October of last year when the
second semester started. Sometimes his expectations from his venture gave him
frustrations. He got good grades from his previous subjects but still he thinks that this
are not enough to achieve his goals in his future life. As he sees in their family situation
and status in life, he engaged to work early on his young age in a firearms store in
Quezon City to support his needs and to help his family in financial problem.
The client is also complaining his father for its insufficient salary that leads of lack of
support from their needs. The client is close to his mother than to his father because he
often to talk and open-up some subject matters in life, about studying and having
bonding moments with his mother than to his father. Regarding to his siblings he said
they have a close-tie relationship among them.
As a previous assessment to the client he has a positive outlook in his life situation,
needs and to his self, moreover he has matured sense in handling/coping his problems
and complaints. That’s why as his case worker I ideally use Reality Therapy on our
sessions, in supporting him and resolving his complaints.
4. III. Progress of Counselling
NUMBER OF
SESSIONS
GOAL/S PROGRESS
NOTES
GOAL BASED OTHERS
1
(February 4, 2013)
-To know each similarities
and dissimilarities to get
his trust to start my cyber
counselling session as my
first step.
-To build rapport and
knowing each personality.
-To explain clearly what
Cyber Counselling is and
what is its purpose and
advantages.
-Set for a new
schedule of
session to expand
the interest of the
client about cyber
counselling.
-Observed and
analyzed the
personality of
the client.
-Quite shy and
hard for me at
my first session
using cyber
counselling.
-Focus but not
that so active
and
participating in
our interview.
2
(February 8, 2013)
-Gather more data and
information about the
clients’ background by
means of live chat
interview.
-The client opens
more about his
personal life
matter and
became active in
our counselling
session.
-Finished the
initial steps for
establishing
better
relationship and
empathy
between the
client.
-Became more
active and able
to respond to
my questions.
3
(February 12, 2013)
-Proceed to the
Psychotherapy that will use
Reality Therapy for the
whole counselling support.
-Assisting in
making plans to
change specific
behaviour that the
-Explained the
used of Reality
Therapy and the
benefits of it.
-Interested to
the
psychotherapy
that we used.
5. -Give more concrete ideas
what is the counselling and
therapy all about.
determined that
was not working
for him.
4
(February 17, 2013)
-Apply the Reality
Therapy
-Planning and making
commitments to stick with
the plan to achieve our
goals.
-Challenge the
client to look at his
current behaviour
to decide if he
wants to make
changes or
eliminate.
-Formulated
concrete goals
then utilized
variety of
techniques that
foster
modification of
feelings,
thinking
processes, and
ways he behave.
-Long time of
responding to
the
conversation.
-Always
replacing his
thoughts
rewrites and
rethinks his own
thought
process.
5
(February 21, 2013)
-Encourage to evaluate
himself and what we are
doing to see if there are
progress of changes
-Set in the client’s mind
that this case management
is an active, directive, and
didactic therapy.
-Stick to the plan,
covenant, and to
the commitment
that we have to
follow things from
the beginning until
the end.
-Starting to
eliminate and
discuss the
complaints in
the list of
behaviours that
the client wants
to change or to
eliminate.
-The client
found out that
the
psychotherapy
and case
management
that we have
conducted was
very
challenging.
6
(February 25, 2013)
CLOSURE OF CASE
-The sessions are
very limited to
give enough help
to the counselee.
-Have realized the
things and the
behaviour that he
acted before from
his past condition
were wrong.
-Somehow
contented to the
results of the
counselling
sessions and to his
new behaviour.
- Found out that
he must knew
first his
personality and
behaviour to
attain his goals
in life and to
become a better
person.
-Want to
continue the e-
therapy session
because he
became
interested to
this new kind of
counselling.
6. IV. Evaluation
a. Strength
The cyber counselling eliminates the usual requirement to spend time and
money travelling to the counsellor’s office. I can also say that online counselling
never need involve intermediaries: it is not necessary to speak with a receptionist
to arrange appointments and has privacy for the client because s/he just needs
to stay at home. Some people find online communication encourages them to
express themselves more clearly and to put greater effort into understanding the
other person. They find it easier to express lengthy or complex ideas or feelings
online, knowing that they have time to finish the thought before eliciting another
person’s reaction to the initial parts of what they have expressed.
b. Weakness/Challenges
The cyber counselling is not face to face counselling, there are some of
variables, vocal signals, body language and things in the environment that
somehow affect the sessions that must the counsellor take note. The signal
strength of the internet connection can interrupt the session with the clients. The
therapist cannot respond to crisis situations. And it is not appropriate for those
with serious psychiatric illness because the scope of the help provided can be
limited.
7. c. Conclusion
I’m amazed to the new intervention of counselling it evolves to a very
accessible conversation style of counselling because everyone one of us is
internet is always on our side, we Twitter, we Facebook, we MySpace, we Blog,
we Skype! There is no anything we don’t do online these days so I’m very
excited when I used this kind of counselling. Cyber counselling is flexible for
everyone especially for those people who are busy in their work and no time to
go to the counsellor’s office. There is no awkwardness between the clients like
voice recording during the sessions. The client can organized first their thoughts,
rewrite and rethink their own thought process for better counselling sessions.
But it is hard for me to show what is the appropriate feelings and expression that
I want to show or to say to the client. And for the some people they find it is
easy to express complex ideas and feelings of a person’s concerns without
awkwardness. Finally, I concluded that cyber counselling is much recommended
because the client can reread the comments and sessions and even print it out
to reflect on.
