Suppose you are faced with a terminally ill client with AIDS who is in a great deal of pain. The client indicates to you in a calm, reasonable way that he/she is going to drive out to an isolated spot in a state park, drink a thermos of margaritas, take out her 9 mm automatic, make an audio tape telling her family how much she loves them and how she doesn’t want to be a burden on them, and then kill herself. Run a five minute crisis intervention session.. With the following criteria in mind, how do you feel you did?
The next step would be to encourage the patient to make plans for the future (Neil, 2017). Having goals and aspirations could be a sure way of finding a reason to live and goes a long way in diminishing the patient’s disparity. Therefore, the plans must be capable of making the patient feel empowered. Once the project has been established, the patient should be encouraged to show commitment to the plan (Neil, 2017). Therefore, encouraging the family to get involved in the plan would enable the patient to follow through.
