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Lyrosia's SOCIAL Domain

of Development:
A Case Study

GROUP 4 - PSY 4

ALYANNA FONTALVA
JUDE GAMOLO
MIECA GUMBA
RAPHAEL GONZALES
NEICHE INOVERO


LYROSIA

• Female;
• 20-years old;
• studies Technology
Client's Communication Management in
Profile USTP;

• clinically diagnosed with

Depression.
 LYROSIA
One of 7 siblings through her biological
parents;
her biological mother passed away, and
she has never met her father;
she is the only child in her adoptive
family.
 Social Domain
Lyrosia had an unconventional childhood;
brought up in a household that was not physically or
emotionally affectionate;
Lyrosia's relationship with her adoptive mother is more like
that of siblings, lacking in intimacy and openness that is
ideally present between a mother and daughter;
the client grew up in a relationship dynamic that had
profound implications on her present self;
from the interview, we can glean that our client's past actions
have been primarily motivated by how she is perceived by
others, resulting in low self-esteem and a desire for external
valuation.
 Theories to support the analyses

• Thoughts of being judged by others, being backstabbed;

• that she is easily demotivated to try new things; that instead of encouragement,
she receives criticism;
• a certain mistrust for people, that she is averse to making attachments;
• a desire to be noticed, to become famous;
• having a negative outlook on life, that she felt as if she was unlucky;
• that she doesn’t love herself to the fullest extent.
 Humanistic Theory
of Child Development from the works
of Karen Horney

Parental behaviors adverse to Self-development

Impairing a child’s self-sufficiency, self-reliance, or initiative;
indifference or a lack of reliable warmth or guidance;
direct blows to the child’s self-esteem;
absence of admiration (derogatory, disparaging attitudes);
creating an intimidating atmosphere.
 Karen Horney's Concept of "Basic Anxiety"
"All these influences make the child feel that in order to be liked or
accepted, they must be as others expect them to be. The parents have so
thoroughly superimposed themselves on the mind of the child that they
comply through fear, thus gradually losing what we call the “real me.”

Their own will, wishes, feels, likes and dislikes, and grievances become
paralyzed. Therefore they gradually lose the capacity to measure their own
values. They become dependent on the opinion of others."

(Horney, 1939, pp. 91–92)