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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 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 sessions in a community clinic. You know
the above information about her, and what she wants from you is
help in sorting out what she really believes about living a moral
life versus what she has been told is the moral way to be. She
says that she would like to learn how to trust herself and, in
