Psychosocial Assessment - Research Paper Example

Rachel begins by describing her disliking of her mother’s idea to take her to a kindergarten: she strongly hates schooling life and doubts the idea that her mother intended for her good by sending her to school. In a way, she hates her mother for this and says that the idea to send her to school was to separate her from her mother. At school, in a kindergarten class, Rachel envies her mate’s drawings and dislikes the idea that their teacher likes her mate’s drawings so much that she (Rachel) maliciously spills dye on them.

It is apparent that Rachel unusually hates everything on her way: she hates all teachers; she hates her father; she hates her sister and her mother; she hates food; she hates and quits her job; she hates her husband; and she hates her house (Reiland, 2004, p1-9). It goes without saying that Rachel is undergoing an unusual mental instability because she sees, acts and/or responds in an unusually erratic way to various happenings around her life (Aguirre, 2007, p6). This study has focused on Rachel’s mental condition as portrayed in the book.

The main objective of the study is to conduct a psycho-social assessment on Rachel’s realizable symptoms to determine whether she is suffering from BPD. It is quite important to identify a person with BPD because it is a treatable health condition. Later in the study, using DSM IV TR criteria to interrelate Rachel’s symptoms, Rachel’s status with regard to BPD is established and clinical implications and treatment suggestions made or recommended. It is a global concern that many people dismiss BPD as being ‘just another kind of personality’ (Mondimore & Kelly, 2011, p19).

BPD can be problematic. For example, as Reiland (2004, p118) puts it, BPD can cause damage not only to the one suffering, but also to their loved ones. It is, however, more of self destructive than it can