June Woo Case Study
Purpose for Evaluation:
Patient is June Woo, a 36-year-old Chinese American girl from San Francisco. She was admitted due to feeling distressed and confused about her relationship with her mother.
Assessment Procedures:
This patient has participated in one diagnostic session and will undergo a review of Prior Psychological Assessment and Prior Medical Records. The patient also requested for a Clinical interview as well.
Background Information:
June Woo’s mother has recently passed away. Patient mentioned that she began feeling stress after her father asked her to replace her mother’s role in a weekly gathering called the “Joy Luck Club”. During her most recent gathering, June’s aunties has told her that her mother has started searching for her …show more content…
June mentioned that when she was little, her mother Suyuan desperately wanted June to become a child prodigy pianist. The patient said that it seems that her mother was motivated by a more abstract sense of socially-approved success than she is by love for her child as an individual. so June rebels by deliberately playing the piano badly. In retrospect, June comes to realize that she could have been a successful piano player, but because she wanted to rebel against her mother, so she devoted her energy to playing poorly. From this I could see a divide growing between June and her mother at a very common period during a mother and daughter relationship. June wanted to assert her individuality and live her life as is and grow into her own person. Meanwhile, Suyuan pushes her daughter too hard to succeed, but at the same time she only wants the best for her child, and undertook great sacrifices on her own part to provide June with resources. So, as I told her, they both had good intentions but just couldn’t see eye to eye. The patient then mentioned that one time during an outburst, she said things that she now
Patient is June Woo, a 36-year-old Chinese American girl from San Francisco. She was admitted due to feeling distressed and confused about her relationship with her mother.
Assessment Procedures:
This patient has participated in one diagnostic session and will undergo a review of Prior Psychological Assessment and Prior Medical Records. The patient also requested for a Clinical interview as well.
Background Information:
June Woo’s mother has recently passed away. Patient mentioned that she began feeling stress after her father asked her to replace her mother’s role in a weekly gathering called the “Joy Luck Club”. During her most recent gathering, June’s aunties has told her that her mother has started searching for her …show more content…
June mentioned that when she was little, her mother Suyuan desperately wanted June to become a child prodigy pianist. The patient said that it seems that her mother was motivated by a more abstract sense of socially-approved success than she is by love for her child as an individual. so June rebels by deliberately playing the piano badly. In retrospect, June comes to realize that she could have been a successful piano player, but because she wanted to rebel against her mother, so she devoted her energy to playing poorly. From this I could see a divide growing between June and her mother at a very common period during a mother and daughter relationship. June wanted to assert her individuality and live her life as is and grow into her own person. Meanwhile, Suyuan pushes her daughter too hard to succeed, but at the same time she only wants the best for her child, and undertook great sacrifices on her own part to provide June with resources. So, as I told her, they both had good intentions but just couldn’t see eye to eye. The patient then mentioned that one time during an outburst, she said things that she now