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Post your initial response to the following: After learning about…
Post your initial response to the following:
After learning about Stephanie, imagine that you had been the school social worker at the time of her suicidal ideation. Which indicators would you have looked for in Stephanie and why?
How would you have responded to each of those indicators? What kinds of questions would you have asked her and why?
Please use the Learning Resources to support your response.
FEMALE SPEAKER: I want
to take care of her. I really do. I mean, she’s my mom, and she’s
not getting any younger. But I deserve my own
life, my own place. And I’m always tired of feeling
like I’m suffocating all the time. It’s just– It’s so confusing. I love her, you know? FEMALE SPEAKER: I understand
that you want a place of your own to live. You mentioned before that you
and your mother argue a lot. FEMALE SPEAKER: A lot? How about all the time? And all that stuff she hoards,
it’s just like, I’m drowning in it. It’s like there’s more room
for her junk than there is for us. It just drives me crazy. Right to the hospital
sometimes. FEMALE SPEAKER: How many times
have you been hospitalized? FEMALE SPEAKER: Let’s see. Three times in four years. I think I mentioned to you
that I’m bipolar, and I’m lousy dealing with stress. Oh. Wait, um, there was
another time that I was in the hospital. I tried to commit suicide. I guess I was pretty lousy
at that too, otherwise I wouldn’t be here. FEMALE SPEAKER: What made
you want to do it? I was a teenager. And when you’re a teenager, you
find a reason every day to try to kill yourself, right? I was– I was depressed. I remember one night I went out
with some of my friends. And, um, they were all looking
up at the sky and talking about how pretty
the stars were. And all I could think about was
that that sky was nothing more than a black eye. It was lifeless, and it could
care less about any of us. When they finally let
me go home from the hospital, my family– wow– what a trip they were. They didn’t want to talk about
what I had tried to do. That was off-limits. I tried to kill myself. And I they acted like nothing
ever happened. I’ve never told anybody
that before. FEMALE SPEAKER: Are you seeing
a psychiatrist now? FEMALE SPEAKER: Um, I go
to a clinic, and I see him once a month. I also go to drop-in centers for
group sessions, mostly for my depression. FEMALE SPEAKER: What
about medications? FEMALE SPEAKER: Hell, yeah. They’re my lifesaver. FEMALE SPEAKER: What
are you taking? FEMALE SPEAKER: Let’s see. For the bipolar I take
lithium, Paxil. Oh. Wait a minute. I made a list so I would
not forget the medications that I take. Let’s see. I take lithium, Paxil,
Abilify, Klonopin–
