Julia's Compassion: A Case Study

Julia age 14, comes from divorced parents who seems to be out of touch with Julia. Julia’s mother had taken her to counseling after an arrest for Minor in Possession. Julia doesn’t understand the severity of this arrest and declares that she only had one beer. Julia seems like a typical teenager who is acting out due to a recent divorce and a forced move because of the decrease in finance due to divorce of parents. Julia’s father had an affair during the marriage which resulted in the divorce but is now married and has a new baby girl. Julia’s dad seems to be preoccupied with his new bride and baby and rarely calls or sees Julia or her brother Reynold. Julia’s mother Jean meet a man at a support group for parents without partners. She

She complains that Al’s kids don’t have to do chores while she and Reynold do. Jean is going to address this with Al and try to come up with a better solution. Julia just wants things to go back to the way they were when it was just the three of them. She is feeling forgotten and alone. Jean is struggling with how to relate to Julia and can’t empathize with her skirmishes. Jean seems to be out of touch with current issues of teens and Julia complains that she is parenting her just like how her mom parented her and times are different now. Julia even with all the rules still finds a way to drink with friends so that she can escape her current situation at home. She is miserable and needs someone to talk to. Luckily Jean has her in counseling which she is convinced that many people need counseling with going through a blended family situation and it can be very helpful and rewarding. Julia is reluctant to do a personal session but she agrees with the stipulation that the counselor will not lecture

Therefore, even though Julia may find it hard at first to seek help there is an enormous amount of young people who utilize the programs put in place to help ease some of the pressure put on teens. Divorce, moving, drugs, alcohol, blended families, this is all too much for one young person to handle without guidance or counseling. Society puts a lot of aphesis on fitting in, being skinny, good hair, great body, and having money. Teens have so much pressure on them that their ability to deal with adult issues like divorce and step parents. In order to properly deal with the cards that teens are handed they need support love and in most cases counseling in order to cycle though the mourning of their family dynamics and figuring out how to be accepting of a new family. Society is making it more acceptable to be from a broken home and having step parent’s which is good news for future teens but it is still a lot to take