One Saturday afternoon as I was going about my work while practicing my psychologist's career at The City Healthcare, a lady entered. As I welcomed her to take the client's seat, I noticed some confusion in her mind. She seemed to be so much I hurry and unsure of what to do next. As I waited to her to settle, she realized that I had noticed her confusion and tried to fake that she was all well. Anxiety was all over her face as she faced me for a talk. I tried to assure her that all was okay to help her gain her confidence to talk. Her hands were wet with sweat while she shivered as if dipped in an ice pool. She finally, and the first word was "Doctor, I would like this to be a confidential thing between you and me" I assured her that all services at the clinic were treated as confidential as exposing our clients' details would breach the code of conduct for the practitioners.
After some silence, she told me that she had come to test for HIV. I was about to say to her that she had come to a wrong department but hesitated, to first hear her story then I advise her on the procedure and the place she would have it done. However, she withheld any other information and that when I decided to do some assessment on her.
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I asked if she was married of which she admitted. I asked whether she had any test of that kind before and she said that that was before she moved in with her husband. She said that she fears that she might have contracted the disease in the course of her marriage. I asked if any of them were unfaithful in the union, that's when she revealed that she suspects that his husband is having an affair with her secretary. Additionally, she had attended a party with friends the previous weekend and got drunk, and woke up the next day in a room with both men and women, that she has been suspecting that she might have had unprotected sex that night.
References
Goldstein, G., & Hersen, M. (Eds.). (2000). Handbook of psychological assessment. Elsevier.
Rust, J., & Golombok, S. (2014). Modern psychometrics: The science of psychological assessment. Routledge.
