Below are four developmental life stages. Select one that is the age of yourself-as-client. Another choice will help define the life situation of your client when you are the psychologist in part B.
Child (between 5 and 11 years) Adolescent (between 13 and 20 years) Adult (any age after 21) Geriatric (any age after 70) PART A
Select an age and gender for you-as-client. This is a way to build empathy and understanding the possible experience of being a client — at any age — with an exploration of a slightly different personality. As a client, you do NOT have to be yourself. You can be either gender, any ethnic identity, any socio-economic status, presenting with a unique situation and problem.
Build a description of yourself as client. Be succinct, strait to the point, no more than 2 — 3 sentences What is your life situation? What is the main problem you present to the psychologist? For example, as a client, do you have trauma (from abuse, neglect, war, gangs, etc.), depression/ anxiety, learning disability, relationship problem, identity/cultural challenge, a life stage concem — such as adolescents or mid-life transition, or end of life?
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