Child In Crisis Case Study

Child in Crisis Joe is a child who has just been admitted to a youth facility, he is a 16-year-old male Caucasian, who has been cutting for 2 years. Joe has threatened suicide, but it is believed this is his way of getting the help he needs to get someone to listen to him. Joe’s crimes that has him in the juvenile facility have been petty. Joe has a condition called (NSSI) otherwise referred to as cutting. I will be counseling Joe for several weeks trying to help him get over the cutting and help him to excel in the goals to go home sooner. In treating Joe my staff and I will be using the CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) and Therapeutic Assessment. CBT will help Joe to understand how he sees himself as an individual …show more content…
About Therapeutic Assessment Citied: www.therapeuticassessment.com/about.html “). Joe needs to feel better about himself, and to do this we need explore how Joe started thinking as he grew up. Many times, these thought patterns start in early childhood. Joe has a problem with feeling that he doesn’t belong and a feeling of worthlessness. Joe doesn’t feel like he has a problem, he feels like he is just a teenager and these feeling are his life and there isn’t anything that can be done about them, so our goal is to sit with Joe and get him to talking about his life, and to see that these ways of thinking are patterns in his life, and to explore each one of them and to see the alternative ways of looking at these pictures of things that has happened to him. Many times, children who cut feel very lonely and forlorn, therefore they will go along with others, even if the others are people like gangs, predator’s. This results in their getting into trouble because they simple want to belong. Often such as in Joes case resulting in them going to a correctional