For this final assignment of the course, write a crisis intervention paper. To do so, select a specific case that you are working with or one that you know about that involves a specific type of trauma or crisis discussed in this course. Discuss any difficulty finding a case with your instructor. Please follow the outline below for your paper.
- Write a short description of a person in crisis. Include the person’s age, gender, ethnicity/race, marital status, and any other relevant unidentified descriptive information.
- Describe the client’s presenting problem and the crisis event. Explain why this situation is considered a crisis.
- Discuss how ethnicity, race, gender, age, class, sexual orientation, or other diversity characteristics may affect the client and the crisis intervention.
- Provide an overview of the social problem that may be helpful to know in planning the assessment and intervention. For example, if this is a child abuse case or substance abuse case, provide a summary of the scope, indicators, and consequences to the victim and the family.
- Design a specific crisis intervention based on the content in the assigned course readings. If you wish, feel free to include any other scholarly resources that you find particularly helpful.
- Write a conclusion to your intervention plan. What do you anticipate the outcome to be?
- Include at least two actions you take to avoid personal burnout in working with this issue.
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