CNL-610 Eliza D Case Study: Part Three

Directions: Throughout this course you will be reviewing a case study about Eliza D. The information from the case study will be used to complete several different course assignments. Read part three of Eliza’s case study below for the completion of your Topic 6 and 7 assignments.

Four weeks after your initial assessment with Eliza, she attended a follow up meeting for a revised assessment based on new information received from the Office of Campus Life. The client has been in counseling with another therapist at the university for the last four weeks and has voluntarily attended some classes at the Drug and Alcohol Center. The client became agitated when she realized the meeting was for a different purpose than simply reviewing her initial goals.

Campus Life has provided information that Campus Police have responded to two more drinking incidents in the client’s dorm, and Eliza was involved in both incidents. She now has a charge for public intoxication, which means the alcohol classes are mandatory, as well as counseling at least twice per month, also mandated. Eliza angrily expresses her frustration over having “more to do on top of studying and tutorials” and vehemently denies her involvement in the drinking incidents; she continues to insist she is innocent, that her friends in the dorm are the ones causing the problems, and that she does not have a drinking problem.

Eliza is visibly upset and cries frequently during the meeting. You observe agitated behaviors and she continually shifts in her seat, pulling her longer sleeves even farther down over her hands, and rarely makes eye contact. You have information that grades in two of her classes have slipped to a B-, and that she has missing three tutorial sessions in the last 2 weeks. She denies SI and agrees to show you her arms.

At the end of the session, the client’s parents arrived on campus, and asked for your assistance locating resources in their hometown for discharge planning with Eliza by the end of the semester. Eliza’s parents agreed to follow through with discharge recommendations for counseling and support groups.