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PYC4809 Assignment

3 (COMPLETE

ANSWERS) 2024

(635198) - DUE 25

September 2024

,PYC4809 Assignment 3 (COMPLETE ANSWERS) 2024 (635198) - DUE 25

September 2024

Task 1: Case study READ THE FOLLOWING CASE STUDY AND ANSWER

THE QUESTIONS THAT FOLLOW: Case study Karen: Anxiety over choosing

for herself Assume the perspective of a Gestalt therapist, and show how you

would proceed with Karen, 27-year-old women who is struggling with value

conflicts relating to her religion, culture, and sex-role expectations. Here is

what she has related to you during the first session. Throughout her life Karen

has identified herself as a ‘good Catholic’ who has not questioned much of her

upbringing. She has never really seen herself as an independent woman; in

many ways she feels like a child, one who is strongly seeking approval and

directions from those whom she considers authorities. Karen tells you that in

her culture she was taught to respect and honour her parents, teachers,

priests, and other elders. Whenever she tries to assert her own will, if it differs

from the expectations of any authority figure, she experiences guilt and self-

doubt. She went to Catholic schools, including college, and she has followed

the morals and teachings of her church very closely. She has not been

married, nor has she even had a long-term relationship with a man. Karen has

not had sexual intercourse, not because she has not wanted to but because

she is afraid that she could not live with herself and her guilt. She feels very

restricted by the codes she lives by, and in many ways, she sees them as rigid


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, and unrealistic. Yet she is frightened of breaking away from what she was

taught, even though she is seriously questioning much of its validity and is

aware that her views on morality are growing more and more divergent from

those that she at one time accepted. Basically, Karen asks: ‘What if I am

wrong? Who am I to decide what is moral and immoral? I’ve always been

taught that morals are clear-cut and do 2 not allow for individual

conveniences. I find it difficult to accept many of the teachings of my church,

but I’m not able to really leave behind those notions that I don’t accept. What if

there is a hell, and I’ll be damned forever if I follow my own path? What if I

discover that I “go wild” and thus lose any measure of self-respect. Will I be

able to live with my guilt if I don’t follow the morality I’ve been taught?’ Karen

is also struggling with the impact of cultural restraints on her view of what it

means to be a woman. Generally, she sees herself as being dependent,

unassertive, fearful of those in authority, emotionally reserved, socially

inhibited, and unable to make decisions about her life. Although she thinks

that she would like to be more assertive and would like to feel freer to be

herself around people, she is highly selfconscious and ‘hears voices in her

head’ that tell her how she should and should not be. She wishes she could

be different in some important respects, but she wonders if she is strong

enough to swim against what she has learned from her culture, her parents,

and her church. Assume that Karen is coming for a series of counselling


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