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Section 16 Question 16 | Test | Table of Contents The following brief case study illustrates how one can work with a chronic psychiatric patient in a community mental health center using the crisis model. Assessment of the individual and his problem Information was then obtained from his sister to determine what had happened (the precipitating event) when his symptoms had started and, specifically, what she meant by his "acting crazy again." His sister stated that he was "talking to the television set . . .muttering things that made no sense . . . staring into space . . . prowling around the apartment at night," and that this behavior started about 3 days ago. When questioned about anything that was different in their lives before the start of his disruptive behavior, she denied any change. When asked about any changes that were contemplated in the near future, she replied that she was planning to be married in 2 months but that Jim did not know about it because she had not told him yet. When asked why she had not told him, she reluctantly answered that she wanted to wait until all of the arrangements had been made. She was asked if there was any way Jim could have found out about her plans. She remembered that she had discussed them on the telephone with a girl friend the week before. She was asked what her plans for Jim were after she married. She said that her boyfriend had agreed, rather reluctantly, to let Jim live with them. Since her boyfriend was reluctant about having Jim live with them, other alternatives were explored. She said that they had cousins living in a nearby suburb but that she did not know if they would want Jim to live with them. Planning the intervention Intervention He was asked if he had heard his sister talking about her wedding plans. He admitted that he had and that he knew her boyfriend would not want him around—"they would probably put him back in the hospital." As the session ended he still had not internalized the information he had heard. He was asked to continue in therapy for 5 more weeks and to take his medication as prescribed. He agreed to do so. By the end of the sixth week he had visited his cousins, seen the apartment where he would be living, and had discussed his new "job." His disruptive behavior had ceased, and he was again functioning at his precrisis level. Anticipatory planning Summation of paradigm - Aguilera PhD, Donna C. and Janice M. Messick, M.S.; Crisis Intervention: Theory and methodology; The C.V. Mosby Company: St. Louis; 1982 Personal Reflection Exercise #2 The preceding section contained information about a case study of crisis intervention with a paranoid schizophrenic client. Write three case study examples regarding how you might use the content of this section in your practice. Reviewed 2023 Update Pelosi, A. J., & Arulnathan, V. (2023). Neglecting the care of people with schizophrenia: here we go again. Psychological medicine, 53(4), 1–6. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291723000247 Peer-Reviewed Journal Article References: Keane, B. P., Paterno, D., Kastner, S., Krekelberg, B., & Silverstein, S. M. (2019). Intact illusory contour formation but equivalently impaired visual shape completion in first- and later-episode schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 128(1), 57–68. Vaskinn, A., & Abu-Akel, A. (2019). The interactive effect of autism and psychosis severity on theory of mind and functioning in schizophrenia. Neuropsychology, 33(2), 195–202. Wang, Y.-y., Ge, M.-h., Zhu, G.-h., Jiang, N.-z., Wang, G.-z., Lv, S.-x., Zhang, Q., Guo, J.-n., Tian, X., Lui, S. S. Y., Cheung, E. F. C., Heerey, E. A., Sun, H.-w., & Chan, R. C. K. (2020). Emotion–behavior decoupling in individuals with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 129(4), 331–342. QUESTION
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