Client Containment Analysis

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Future social work practitioners should understand the importance of a client’s life course development. These trajectories of events uniquely encompass an individual’s self and their relatedness to many domains within their life. Notably, future practitioners should acknowledge the intimate and deep-seated interconnectedness that nodal events play within a client’s life and future endeavors. The continuation of this document will expand on the student’s previous exchanges with a client in the following ways: analysis of the client’s identities, analysis of the client’s internalized containments, conceptualizations of the client’s ability to obtain mature containing functions, and the student’s reflection.
Client Introduction Dr. G. is a
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With the client’s history illuminated above, it is quite transparent that a lack of like-aged social engagement occurred within his childhood, which has contributed substantially to his relational containment.
Uniquely, as known with the ecological theory, a child’s most intimate proximal processes are critical for their development (Coady, & Lehmann, 2016). It could be hypothesized that since Dr. G. was homeschooled and only interacted with higher socioeconomic systems, he has internalized this entity as part of his identity. Moreover, with respects to relationships, it is evident that the client exhibits issues with relating to other individuals, even in the most needed times. As with object relations theory, Dr. G. perhaps has a mental representative image as to what his social circle should consist of from his parental mirroring throughout his childhood years (Gitterman,
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Most importantly, with the client’s expressed goal of seeking relatedness to others, he first was resistant in counseling to explore his ambivalences to change. However, as the rapport was established and he noticed the student’s attunement, he slowly started to unpack more emotional content, which through the holding environment, he ultimately demonstrated the ability to understand the interrelatedness of his assumptions to other social classes. The client was extremely resistant in seeking relational exchanges with others after months of therapy. With that mentioned, Dr. G. did however obtain the internalized capacity to signal for help when in