Need 3-5 sentences only
1. A new client has just arrived at the community mental health clinic where you function as the crisis worker. She tells you about all of her problems, including a history of mental health treatment and homelessness. What will you tell her about the process of how your clinic will help her?
2. Case of Mildred. Mildred is a 42-year-old white female who is recently divorced. She is not doing well in her love life and comes to you to get some immediate help because she is depressed and thinking about suicide. She spends the first ten minutes weeping uncontrollably and has a hard time putting words together. Of the nine intentional strategies, which ones will you employ to stabilize this very distraught woman, and why?
Nine intentional strategies
– Creating Awareness
Support the client in becoming cognizant of their emotions, behaviors, and thoughts that may hinder mobility.
– Allowing Catharsis
Allow the client to vent but do not let them escalate.
Appropriate for a client who is not able to express their emotions rather than a client whose feelings are already out of control.
– Providing Support
Affirm that the client’s reactions are “common” instead of “normal.”
NEVER support a client’s intentions to harm self or others.
– Promoting Expansion
Help the client open up their tunnel vision of the crisis.
– Emphasizing Focus
Assist the client to compartmentalize the crisis into specific manageable components.
– Providing Guidance
Offer education and referral information to the client.
– Promoting Mobilization
Help the client to develop coping and problem solving skills.
– Implementing Order
Aid the client to organize and prioritize problems.
– Providing Protection
Protect the client from engaging in psychological or physical harm to self or others.