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    Sullivan's interpersonal theory outlines stages of human development from infancy through adolescence. In infancy, an infant receives tenderness from their mothering figure to become human. During childhood, the child develops reciprocal emotions and evaluates their relationship with their mother. In the juvenile era, peers become important and the child learns social behaviors from authoritative figures. The client's dysfunctional family dynamics prevented him from having his needs for approval and socialization fulfilled as a child. He was often left in the care of housemaids and perceived his parents as uninvolved. This led him to become self-critical. In preadolescence, intimacy develops with one same-gender friend, while early adolescence brings puberty and interest in

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    Sullivan's interpersonal theory outlines stages of human development from infancy through adolescence. In infancy, an infant receives tenderness from their mothering figure to become human. During childhood, the child develops reciprocal emotions and evaluates their relationship with their mother. In the juvenile era, peers become important and the child learns social behaviors from authoritative figures. The client's dysfunctional family dynamics prevented him from having his needs for approval and socialization fulfilled as a child. He was often left in the care of housemaids and perceived his parents as uninvolved. This led him to become self-critical. In preadolescence, intimacy develops with one same-gender friend, while early adolescence brings puberty and interest in

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    Sullivan's interpersonal theory outlines stages of human development from infancy through adolescence. In infancy, an infant receives tenderness from their mothering figure to become human. During childhood, the child develops reciprocal emotions and evaluates their relationship with their mother. In the juvenile era, peers become important and the child learns social behaviors from authoritative figures. The client's dysfunctional family dynamics prevented him from having his needs for approval and socialization fulfilled as a child. He was often left in the care of housemaids and perceived his parents as uninvolved. This led him to become self-critical. In preadolescence, intimacy develops with one same-gender friend, while early adolescence brings puberty and interest in

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    INTERPERSONAL THEORY by Harry Stack Sullivan

    Infancy begins at birth and continues until a child develops articulate or syntaxic
    speech, usually at about age 18 to 24 months. Sullivan believed that an infant becomes
    human through tenderness received from the mothering one. In the patients case, he may
    have received enough tenderness when he was a child but as the demands of his parents work
    increased over time, he was kept mostly under the care of their family helpers.
    During childhood, emotions become reciprocal; a child is able to give tenderness as
    well as receive it. The relationship between mother and child becomes more personal and less
    one-sided. Rather than seeing the mother as good or bad based on how she satisfied hunger
    needs, the child evaluates the mother syntaxically according to whether she shows reciprocal
    tender feelings, develops a relationship based on the mutual satisfaction of needs, or exhibits
    a rejecting attitude. Parents are viewed as source of praise and acceptance.
    The juvenile era . The juvenile era appears upon the maturation of the need for
    compeers. According to Sullivan, it is the time for becoming social. He seeks to satisfy his
    need for intimacy from the peers or playmates. During the juvenile era, one begins to acquire
    supervisory patterns of the self, which pertain not only to moral conduct but to behavior
    generally. These supervisory patterns, developed in connection with authoritative figures in
    the home, school, and church, tend to make the juvenile more self-critical. Normally, there is
    a considerable elaboration of the self. The youngster learns patterns of cooperation,
    competition, and compromise.
    In the clients family, he has not received much support from his parent. He was most
    of the time, left to the care of their housemaid. He perceived his parents as uninvolved, his
    father as lazy and his mother as indifferent. As a child, the client was not close to his eldest
    sibling because as verbalized by the client "hindi ko siya mabiro, hindi ko masyadong
    nakakausap kasi ang layo ng age gap". He also had an issue with his little sister and said that
    they had grew apart. As a child wanting approval and socialization, he was not able to fulfil
    those needs because of the dysfunctional family dynamics. He also wasnt able to develop his
    connection with his authoritative figures since the parents, especially the father figure, were
    uninvolved in his affairs. With that, client has become self-critical and when he had
    encountered Ang Dating Daan, felt a strong affinity to the religion and insisted that the
    family should join him in his belief which resulted to a family conflict and aggression in the
    part of the patient.
    Preadolescence, which begins at age 81 /2 and ends with adolescence, is a time for
    intimacy with one particular person, usually a person of the same gender. All preceding stages
    have been egocentric, with friendships being formed on the basis of selfinterest. A
    preadolescent, for the first time, takes a genuine interest in the other person.
    Early adolescence begins with puberty and ends with the need for sexual love with
    one person. It is marked by the eruption of genital interest and the advent of lustful
    relationships.

    Patient has not yet been in a romantic relationship but said that he had his heart
    broken by a girl once. The lady was not named but the patient said that they were having a
    mutual understanding and that the lady really likes him. But then, the lady introduced her
    boyfriend to the client. The client was devastated and felt that what happened was worse than
    being rejected outright.

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