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Jennifer is a 29-year-old administrative assistant married to Antonio, an Italian engineer, whom Jennifer met four years earlier while on a business trip for her marketing company. The couple now lives in Nebraska, where Antonio works for the county's transportation department and Jennifer commutes an hour each way to her marketing office. They have been trying to start a family for over a year. Eight months ago, Jennifer miscarried in her second month of pregnancy. Antonio's parents love Jennifer and often ask her if she is expecting again, hoping to encourage her to focus on her next baby. Jennifer's mother passed away two years ago and her father's health is rapidly deteriorating. Jennifer faces the probability of placing her father in a skilled nursing care facility within the next few months, against his wishes.

At work, Jennifer runs a tight ship. She is organized and prepares lists to assure that everything is done according to schedule. Everyone counts on Jennifer and she takes pride in never letting people down.

Jennifer has visited her physician numerous times in the last six months, complaining of headaches, backaches, and indigestion. Jennifer insists that she is happy and is not feeling stressed, yet she finds herself making more mistakes at work, unable to keep up with housework, and feeling tired and overwhelmed; she has begun to question her effectiveness as an employee, wife, daughter, and potential mother. Her pains seem to be increasing, but her doctor cannot find a physical cause for her discomfort.

Here are the questions that need answered.. Any help is appreciated.
1. What are the causes of stress in Jennifer's life? How is stress
affecting Jennifer's health?

2. How are these stressors impacting Jennifer's self-concept and self esteem?

3. How might Jennifer's situation illustrate adjustment? How might this
situation become an opportunity for personal growth?

4. What defensive coping methods is Jennifer using? What active coping
methods might be healthier for Jennifer to use? Explain why you
would recommend these methods.

5. Select one theory of personality and use this theory to tell
how this theory explains his or her situation.

6. In what stage of development is Jennifer and what factors about this
stage might be impacting his or her perspective of this situation?

7. What relationship factors or considerations might be influencing
Jennifer's problems?

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Here are the questions that need answered.. Any help is appreciated.
1. What are the causes of stress in Jennifer's life? How is stress affecting Jennifer's health?
Obviously, she is feeling really depressed but is not showing it by being frustrated and anxious. The causes of her stress are multiple: trying to take care of a weakening and ill father, getting her self mentally prepared to conceive again after suffering a miscarriage are huge apprehensive states of being for a career minded young woman. Her work is suffering because she has many things on the back of her mind. But work also demands attention and care. With her stressed mind, she is not able to keep up with her expected work performance. That inability adds to her sense of being stressed even more.
2. How are these stressors impacting Jennifer's self-concept and self esteem?
Her overall health and ability to be attentive is compromised because she is feeling so lonely in her struggles to ...

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