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Jennifer Shields
BSHS/325
May 23, 2016
Erin Jacobs

The following case study concerns a 25-year-old young adult named Jackson. Jackson currently lives at home with his mother, Tina, who raised Jackson with his two siblings, Oliver and Crystal, as a single parent. While Jackson’s biological father was not and is still not involved in his life, his mother’s boyfriend of the last 5 years, Michael, often tries to serve as a father figure to him and his siblings. As we can see, Jackson grew up in what could be considered a broken home with his mother having to raise him and his siblings alone. However, Jackson was still a good student in high school earning in most of his courses A and B grades. He even went to college right out of high school focused on getting a degree in chemistry.
Jackson had two relationships in high school that lasted about 6 months each, with Alice and Beth. In each of these relationships Jackson asked the girls to marry him, but then withdrew his proposal. Each girl had complained during their relationship that Jackson was distant with them and seemingly unable to commit to them emotionally. Sometime between his time in high school and his freshmen year of college, Jackson was in a car accident resulting in a head injury that caused him to lose some cognitive functioning and analytical skills. During his freshmen year of college, Jackson started drinking alcohol with his friends occasionally and abused the prescription pain medication given to him after the car accident. He also experienced during this time a dilemma in his sexuality when he felt a sexually attraction to his roommate Stanley, and had to request to be moved to another dorm. Today, Jackson has now been arrested multiple times for possession of a controlled substance, is in a substance abuse program, secludes himself, and refuses to find a job.
From this information, we can identify that Jackson has for a long time been withdrawn emotionally and, even sometimes physically, from those in his life before and after the car accident. While he lives at home with his mother now, he stays in his room for the most part and does not want to find a job that would get him back out into the world. Be secluding himself, he is not able to socialize to make any friends or form any intimate relationships. This may also be stemming from his sexual confusion in college when he found himself attracted to his male roommate Stanley, and Jackson is now afraid of any romantic or sexual emotions he may feel towards another person. Before the car accident, Jackson was healthy and focused on his life and his future. After the accident, Jackson began to drink and abuse the painkillers given to him. The immediate affects of his unhealthy choices have now affected his mental functioning even more as he is seemingly withdrawn after getting in to trouble with the law. His body is also physically suffering as abusing these substances.

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