There are different types of crisis that individuals experience on a daily basis. Two such crisis that will be discussed is the scope of suicide crisis among teenagers and bereavement in school-aged children of the loss of a parent (James &Gilliland, 2013). The American foundation for suicide prevention (2013) reports that adolescents and young adults aged 15 to 24 had a suicide rate of 10.9. This is suggesting that mental health counselors must engaged in schools and community projects to try and assist youths in a preventative way to work through their issues without turning to suicidal acts. Adolescents’ do suffer tremendously from the loss of a parent. James and Gilliland (2013) noted that children at this age experience a high level of anger, pain, fear, guilt, and confusion.
Interventions for suicidal crisis
Group therapy and Emotional focus therapy can be used to work with clients who are going through suicidal crisis. When a teenager for example takes his or her life, there are several persons who could be affected. The parents, the crisis worker, their peers, teachers, …show more content…
Kubler-Ross stages of grief would be an appropriate intervention for me to use with individuals going through grief. James and Gilliland (2013) points out that adolescents’ sometimes do not have the understanding as to how to behave during these moments of grief. What I like about the Kubler-Ross stages of grief is that the theory provides a framework which allows the counselor to go through the denial stage, the anger stage, the bargaining stage, the depression stage and the acceptance stage with the clients who may still be in shock and denied that the loss happen (Bolden, 2007; James & Gililand, 2013) noted that when clients go through the stages, it will help clients to reflect and move on with their
Interventions for suicidal crisis
Group therapy and Emotional focus therapy can be used to work with clients who are going through suicidal crisis. When a teenager for example takes his or her life, there are several persons who could be affected. The parents, the crisis worker, their peers, teachers, …show more content…
Kubler-Ross stages of grief would be an appropriate intervention for me to use with individuals going through grief. James and Gilliland (2013) points out that adolescents’ sometimes do not have the understanding as to how to behave during these moments of grief. What I like about the Kubler-Ross stages of grief is that the theory provides a framework which allows the counselor to go through the denial stage, the anger stage, the bargaining stage, the depression stage and the acceptance stage with the clients who may still be in shock and denied that the loss happen (Bolden, 2007; James & Gililand, 2013) noted that when clients go through the stages, it will help clients to reflect and move on with their