Rebecca Smith Vignette
Rebecca Smith is a 16 year old female who is pregnant and has become suicidal after the breakup with her 36 year old ex-boyfriend Kevin. Kevin and Rebecca became pregnant 5 month ago. Keven does not want anything to do with Rebecca because he wanted her to have an abortion. Keven has been keeping his real life a secret from Rebecca. He is in fact married with 2 children of his own and his wife does not know about his affair with Rebecca. This information has just been revealed to Rebecca when she became obsessed with Kevin and began stalking him after work to find out where her really lives since she never seen his home. One night after work she was able to follow him home and she watched as his wife and 2 children
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The mother has brought Rebecca in to see me to be evaluated and placed on a treatment plan since her plan is to keep the baby and try to reconcile with Kevin so they can live happily ever after.
Rebecca and her mother have come into my office where I am going over the informed consent with both of them. Rebecca and her mother have agreed to all of the rules and regulations of the therapy session and understand all of the reasons that confidentiality would be broken. The mother than exits to the waiting room while I speak to Rebecca in private.
Rebecca that reveals to me the entire truth about her situation about being pregnant by a
38 year old married man with children and how she just wants to kill herself and her baby now if she can’t reconcile with him and be married to him and live happily ever after. She has the means to do it, which she discusses would be to jump off a bridge into the ocean or to hang herself. The other possible way is to overdose on her mother prescription medication,
Oxycodone since her mother has recently had surgery. The mother has not been available because of her medical condition and has been drugged up on pain meds because of the