1. Why is it important to practice asking the question, “Are you having thoughts of suicide?” 2.How do you feel about using the word suicide, or about looking someone in the eye and asking him or her directly about suicide? 3.What are some other equally direct and nonjudgmental ways that you could ask about someone’s intention to self-injure? 4.What has been your experience with suicide, both personally and professionally? Consider what you do and do not know about working with a client in a suicidal crisis or emergency. What more do you need to know before you work with a client who is suicidal? Case study: Mark is a Grade 10 student who is very withdrawn and has few friends. Janice, the school counselor, is concerned about Mark. Last year there was a case where some of the other boys were bullying Mark, and he displayed suicidal ideation. Mark has been seeing a counselor for the past year and the bullies were punished; however, Janice has a gut feeling that the bullying continues “under the radar” of school officials. Mark’s English teacher recently stopped by to show Janice one of Mark’s tests. Mark did not answer a single question, but instead, drew pictures of guns all over the test. 5. What should Janice do? 6. What questions should she ask? 7. What process should she follow? 8. Are there any special considerations since they are in a school setting?
1. Why is it important to practice asking the question, “Are you having thoughts of suicide?”
2.How do you feel about using the word suicide, or about looking someone in the eye and asking him or her directly about suicide?
3.What are some other equally direct and nonjudgmental ways that you could ask about someone’s intention to self-injure?
4.What has been your experience with suicide, both personally and professionally? Consider what you do and do not know about working with a client in a suicidal crisis or emergency. What more do you need to know before you work with a client who is suicidal?
Case study:
Mark is a Grade 10 student who is very withdrawn and has few friends. Janice, the school counselor, is concerned about Mark. Last year there was a case where some of the other boys were bullying Mark, and he displayed suicidal ideation. Mark has been seeing a counselor for the past year and the bullies were punished; however, Janice has a gut feeling that the bullying continues “under the radar” of school officials. Mark’s English teacher recently stopped by to show Janice one of Mark’s tests. Mark did not answer a single question, but instead, drew pictures of guns all over the test.
5. What should Janice do?
6. What questions should she ask?
7. What process should she follow?
8. Are there any special considerations since they are in a school setting?
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