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?
-being objective
-your own moral view of AIDS and suicide
-following Tarasoff
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The first step in a crisis intervention session is to identify the problem (Neil, 2017). Since the patient has already communicated that she is planning on committing suicide, this is the question. The patient feels as if she will become a burden to her family and that she has decided that the best course of action would be to kill herself. Therefore, the next step would be to ensure the safety of the client (Neil, 2017). To do this, one must ensure that the environment in which the patient is in is devoid of any potentially dangerous objects that she could use to inflict harm on herself or others. In such a patient, committing her to a facility that would guarantee twenty-four-hour observation would be the best advisable thing to do.
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