Read the following case and give your response to the questions after the case.
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Read the following case and give your response to the questions after the case. The client is a married woman in her late 30s, with 3 children who are approaching their teens. She has been in weekly therapy for 6 months. She is struggling to decide whether to remain with her husband, whom she feels is boring, uninvolved with their children, complacent, and overly wrapped up in his work. She has urged him to join her in marriage counseling or try some form of therapy for himself. He maintains that he is "fine" and that she is the one with the problems. She tells you (the counselor) that she would divorce him immediately if it wasn’t for the kids and that when the children finish school, she will surely leave him. Right now she is ambivalent, however, she cannot decide whether she wants to accept the security that she now has (along with the deadness of her relationship with her husband) or whether she is willing to give up this security and risk being stuck with less than she now has. She has been contemplating having an affair so that someone other than her husband can meet her physical and emotional needs. She is also exploring the possibility of finding a job so that she will be less dependent upon her husband. By getting a job, she could have outside opportunities for personal satisfaction and still remain in her marriage by deciding to accept what she has with him.
3). There is a value question of security verses possible growth. If you are conservative and place primary values on security, what effects might your view have on your client? If you have been through a divorce, should you share your life-experience with her?
Explanation / Answer
If primary emphasis is given to the security aspects, in my opinion both (the client and her husband) need counselling properly on the future of their married life.The clent's husband should be counselled and motivated to spend more time with his family which includes his wife(client) and children.In any marriage, mutual trust, respect, value for each others opinion matters most and in this particular case both the husband and wife needs appropriate counselling to work out thier issues and aptly resolving them.
If i would have been through a divorce, i will not share my life experience with the client. because the option of divorce is taken as means of last resort and divorce may not work well in all situation.the circumstances and situations though which i have gone may not be same with that of the client.
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