Ron Wood Family Resource Center Case Study

A safety plan may be developed for individuals whose pose a risk to themselves or to others. The guiding purpose of a safety plan is to provide individuals resources to redirect their actions. Plans may list detailed sets of particular strategies to use in an effort to decrease the person’s risk of self harm. Safety plans generally include coping strategies to be used by individuals in an effort to immunize their risks. The plan is generally viewed as a collaborative effort between the treatment provider and the client. A safety plan consists of a course of action for individuals whose patterns may prove harmful to them.

In order to prevent future violent situations, people need to be educated about why youth self harm. When people self harm they may feel like they have lost touch with reality, “They say it eases their pain. That it clears their minds and makes them feel calm. But to those on the outside looking in, slicing your arm with a razor blade is the stuff of horror movies” (Galley). School violence is overtaking headlines, and teens are struggling with untreated mental illnesses, “Federal health officials recommended universal mental health screenings for students nearly a decade ago, they still aren’t required” (Kennedy). Schools would rather suspend or send mentally ill youth to an alternative program, then helping the student get the resources they

Cornerstone Services residential group homes currently house 65 intellectually disabled individuals who are being tracked for self-harm and have been resistant to treatment (Behavioral Tracking). Several behavioral and medication therapies have been implemented, however, the detrimental behavior has persisted. This leads to the need for one to one supervision and other restricting interventions. Self-injurious behavior (SIB) is a persistent problem in the intellectually disabled community that can have an enormous negative effect on the quality of life for the individual including more restrictive housing, less outings in the community, and extreme physical harm or death (Cooper et al., 2009; Embrants, Didden, Huitink, & Schreuder, 2009; Pelios, Morren, Tesch, & Axelrod, 1999; Symons, Thompson, & Rodriguez, 2004; Taylor, Oliver, & Murphy, 2011).

The male facilitator asked if the topic could be revisited at the next meeting. The female facilitator asked F4 for if she was safe to go out of group and if she wanted to talk about it the following day. She stated that even saying it out loud made her feel better and she didn’t know what to do with it. Though F4 didn’t, that we know of, use self-harm as a coping mechanism, it would be important to address the topic in the following group. “Self-harm is pervasive in society, a behavior which has evolved with us throughout history, cutting across social and cultural divides, affecting people in clinical and community populations (Long, 2013, p. 111).” The group needs mutual aid and cohesion, it would not be positive for the group as a whole or for F4 to not address the self-harm in the next meeting. Being that the members of this group are social work students, I believe that the concern would not just dissipate and there would be tension if the self-harm was not addressed. It would also not acceptable to allow a stigma to negatively impact F4. F4 could withdrawal, become a silent member, or unintentionally become the scapegoat or she may drop out of the group

Dillon explains how these families “like extended bonds, is highly adaptive for coping with the stresses of oppression and socioeconomic skills (p. 286).” When a woman is going through hardship, the families want to be involved with one another’s problems. If one of these women is using self-harm as an outlet of trying to fit a role, losing connection with or from the family and the pressure of the outside community, the family structure and bond can harm the woman.

For the purposes of this paper, an assumption that Manuel is not in immediate danger is made, and he chooses to sign a written contract stating that he will not make any attempt on his life before having another discussion with a counselor. While a written contract cannot guarantee that Manuel will not choose to harm himself during this period, adolescents who sign this type of contract will typically comply. At this point, a follow-up meeting is scheduled, which will allow time to consider the assessment information in formulating the scope of the problem, and provide intervention strategies for Manuel’s continued treatment (McWhirter et al., 2017).

(2017). Preventing suicide: A technical package of policies, programs, and practices. Atlanta, GA: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/suicideTechnicalPackage.pdf

The center provides other services to the neighborhood as health education and nutrition to children and adults, the resource center located in the

I used to be a cutter… but shh, don’t tell. Society didn't allow me to express my pain that way…Today’s society refuses to acknowledge many problems that teens deal with. People would rather believe in ‘happily ever after’ than face the truth, children are suffering. While it may seem to others that the problems are made up, its very real to the one dealing with them everyday. This suffering can leave permanent scars, and damage (if not ruin) their future. By remaining ignorant, self harm becomes more and more common, but at what cost? If educators and medical personnel were to be more educated on self harm and how to deal with it, teens and young adults would be more comfortable asking for help. Getttig rid of the stereotypes that

Sarah is a 15 year-old girl from a middle class family. She is one of three children. Her older brother and younger sister spend half their time with their mother, and half their time with their father. Parents have been divorced since Sarah was five. Sarah and her family came to the therapist’s office seeking help with Sarah’s self-harming behaviors and violent, angry outbursts. Sarah’s parents called the police on several occasions because she seemed out of control and as though she might hurt herself or others. Over the past three months, Sarah had been hospitalized, been through two outpatient programs, and had just been released from 30 days at a residential treatment program. While the self-harm had ceased and much

Teens and young adults resort to various outlets with hopes of coping with the pressures they face. Some stress-relieving activities involve eating comforting food or watching TV. For some, however, these activities do not provide adequate stress relief, so they attempt to escape their anxieties through a recently recognized self-mutilating disorder called “cutting.” While gaining more attention in recent years, cutting is still not a well-known practice, yet an estimated 700 out of every 100,000 individuals self-mutilate (Froeschle). Even celebrities like Angelina Jolie have admitted to cutting (Mann). The best way to discourage the practice of cutting is to learn more about

Through methods of self-mutilation, abuse victims often fall within another vicious cycle. At first, “the individual may be plagued by intrusive or unacceptable thoughts, images, flashbacks... of traumatic events, or burdened by negative self-beliefs” (Sutton). These burdens grow strong within the mind, which causes the individual to have feelings of panic, which eventually leads them to action. In “Healing the Hurt Within,” Jan Sutton further examines self-harm and its destructive cycle:

In this journal article, Dr. Keith King and Dr. Rebecca A. Vidourek brought up some interesting topics about teen suicides. Both King and Vidourek is a professor who works at the University of Cincinnati, but King is a Professor and Program Coordinator of Health Promotion and Education and Dr. Rebecca A. Vidourek is an Assistant Professor of Health Promotion and Education. Throughout their research, they mainly focuses on child and teen health promotion, violence, substance abuse prevention, suicide, and more. King and Vidourek both teaches a number of courses including Human Sexuality ,Mental

Lost and unsure who to turn to, Jamie joined an advocacy group for depression, self-harm, addiction, and suicide prevention at her university. At the first meeting she attended to, an 18-year-old girl spoke up and shared her experiences with

Mr. Hurtado is a 19 year old male who presented to the ED with an suicide attempt. He cut himself multiple times with a razor on his legs and then proceeded to cut the right side of his neck with a box cutter. At the time of the assessment Mr. Hurtado states tonight his boyfriend and he were riding home when another guy sent him a message on Instagram. After looking at the message he showed his boyfriend, which started a confrontation. Mr. Hurtado reports a history of cutting behaviors for a stress relief, however tonight he endorse harming himself with intent to end his life. He reports relational issues with his family accepting his sexual preference and the inability to control himself when face with confrontation as stressor contributing