Disclaimer: Not mine.
Author's Note: Sweets's draft of the case study doesn't really need to be read... it isn't really important since it all gets explained later on, and it's probably all wrong becasue I'm not a psychologist, but i decided to leave it in anyways.
Chapter 1 – The Plan
Sweets sat at his desk, eyes wandering absently around his office as he grasped for an idea. In a neat pile to his right sat a stack of file folders, each holding a detailed report on a different FBI partnership he had been working with. The only report left uncompleted sat in front of him, completely blank aside from the faint traces of eraser smudges that littered the page.
Twice a year, he had to assess each of the partnerships under his council and submit his findings to the FBI, and twice a year, he finished every report early except for one. Dr Brennan and Agent Booth were difficult to describe in writing; they were the kind of people you had to see in person before you could pass any kind of judgment on them or their relationship.
Still, he had to do the best he could with the evidence he had compiled, but as he thumbed through the notes he had taken and questionnaires he had administered over the course of their numerous therapy sessions, he couldn't help but feel that it wasn't enough. As Booth had so willingly pointed out in their first session, his statistics suddenly seemed superficial. At the time, they had helped him to discover the potential problems that threatened Booth and Brennan's professional relationship, but they did nothing now to help him improve it, or even understand it.
He shuffled through his notes one more time before stuffing them in the back of the file and pulling out a blank sheet. What he needed was more evidence. Better evidence. Of course, to get evidence, you need to perform a study, and before you can study anything, you need a plan.
Clicking his pen open, he began to scrawl across the top of the page.
Case Study #108
Previous findings relevant to study:
- Data shows a strong emotional attachment between participants that has been proven to be irregular in current context of professional partnership
- Participants are unwilling to admit to an attachment of such a magnitude
- Emotional attachment has increased over time (see Case study #304 conducted by Dr J Wyatt)
Objectives of study:
- Explore participants' consciousness of attachment
- Explore possible positive/negative effects of pursuing social relationship
- Explore possible positive/negative effects of ignoring possible social relationship
Possible Methods of study:
- Consult participants about one another in an individual setting
- Confront participants with a range of situations in which they must interact with one-another in a non-professional setting and observe positive or negative effects on professional partnership
- Eliminate social interaction for a period of time and observe positive or negative effects on professional partnership
He smiled proudly at the messy scrawl covering his page, and dialed the number of his FBI supervisor. The rest of his case reports could be delivered that afternoon, but there was one file that he would be needing an extension on.