Choose a crisis scenario relevant to your career and professional goals. This crisis scenario could be from your personal or professional life, a movie, television show, book, etc. Write a case summary of the client in crisis based on the Case Presentation Outline provided and example in the case of Rita. Then identify at least 3 resources you would recommend to this person as part of Steps 4 & 5 in the 7-Step Model. 2-3 Pages using standard APA format. Please don’t plagiarise.

I will upload the case of Rita and the 7-Step model. 

Case of RIta

Rita is a 35-year-old businesswoman. She is a graduate of high school and a post–high school

vocational-technical institute. She holds a certificate in auto mechanics. She has never been to a counselor before, and has come to the crisis worker at the suggestion of a close friend who is a school counselor. Rita owns and operates an automobile tune-up and service shop. She employs and supervises a crew of mechanics, tune-up specialists, and helpers. She works very hard and keeps long hours but maintains some flexibility by employing a manager. Rita’s husband, Jake, is a college-educated accountant. They have two children: a daughter who is 13, and a son who is 8. The family rarely attends church, and they don’t consider themselves religious, but they are church members. Their close friends are neither from their church nor from their work.

Rita’s problem is complex. She constantly feels depressed and unfulfilled. She craves attention

but has difficulty getting it in appropriate ways. For diversion, she participates in a dance group

that practices three nights a week and performs on many Friday and Saturday evenings. Rita,

Jake, and their children spend most Sundays at their lake cottage, which is an hour-long drive

from their home. Their circle of friends is mainly their neighbors at the lake.

Rita’s marriage has been going downhill for several years. She has become sexually involved with Sam, a wealthy wholesaler of used automobiles. She met him through a business deal in which she contracted to do the tune-up and service work on a large number of cars for Sam’s

company. Sam’s contracts enable Rita’s business to be very successful. Rita states that the

“chemistry” between her and Sam is unique and electrifying. She says she and Sam are “head

over heels in love with each other.” While she still lives with Jake, she no longer feels any love

for him.

According to Rita, Sam is also unhappily married, and Sam and his current wife have two small

children. Rita states that she and Sam want to get married, but she doesn’t want to subject her

two children to a divorce right now. She is very fearful of her own mother’s wrath if she files for

a divorce. Sam fears his wife will “take him to the cleaners” if he leaves her for Rita right now.

Lately, Sam has been providing Rita with expensive automobiles, clothing, jewelry, and trips out

of town. Also, Sam has been greatly overpaying Rita’s service contracts, making her business

flourish. Jake doesn’t know the details of Rita’s business dealings with Sam, but he is puzzled,

jealous, frustrated, impulsive, and violent. Jake used to slap Rita occasionally. In the last few

months, he has beaten Rita several times. Last night he beat her worse than he ever has. Rita

has no broken bones, but she has several bruises on her body, legs, and arms. The bruises do

not show as long as she wears pantsuits.

Rita has told her problems only to her school counselor friend. She fears that her boyfriend

would kill her husband if he found out about the beatings. Rita is frustrated because she cannot

participate with the dance group until her bruises go away. Rita is feeling very guilty and

depressed. She is not particularly suicidal, however. She is feeling a great deal of anger and

hatred toward Jake, and she suffers from very low self-esteem.

She is feeling stress and pressure from her children, from her mother, from Jake, and even from

Sam, who wants to spend more and more time with her. Recently, Rita and Sam have been

taking more and more risks in their meetings. Rita’s depression is getting to the point where she doesn’t care. She has come to the crisis worker in a state of lethargy—almost in a state of

emotional immobility. Rita has decided to share her entire story with the worker because she

feels she is at her “wit’s end,” and she wouldn’t dare talk with her minister, her physician, or

other acquaintances. Rita has never met the crisis worker, and she feels this is the best

approach, even though she is uncomfortable sharing all of this with a stranger.