SUICIDE INTERVENTION PLAN ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
SUICIDE INTERVENTION PLAN ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
OVERVIEW
The purpose of this assignment is for you, as the crisis interventionist, to learn an organized approach when working with individuals in suicidal crisis. Each question below is designed to guide you as if you were working through the crisis with your client.
You will take the information from course lectures, your text, the article in the Module 3: Week 3 Reading & Study folder, and the the “Suicide Intervention Plan Resources” found in the assignment link in Canvas, along with any other course materials.
You may find some information is not explicitly identified in the Case Scenario. When we are assessing clients for intervention as counselors, available information may not be transparent or readily offered. As clinicians, we cannot assume or speculate as to unknown details, and we must investigate further to fill in the gaps based on review academic resources, scholarly research, and professional resources. For the assignment, you will find you will be required to perform research in the course materials and professional research to obtain information about the case scenario client and your role as the counselor in the scenario.
INSTRUCTIONS
Review the following case scenario and address each of the crisis components for the client.
Case Scenario
Joanne is a 45-year-old divorcee with a long history of depression. She has had three prior suicide attempts: she has overdosed twice and attempted to slice her wrists. She sees a psychiatrist monthly and is prescribed medication. She is not compliant with her medication. She works a high stress job (60–70-hour week), finds all her satisfaction in her work, and has no hobbies. She has not dated since her divorce, resulting from her husband admitting to being gay, 10 years ago. One child is from that marriage, a 13-year-old daughter. Seven years ago, Joanne had an affair with her sister’s husband. Her sister never found out and Joanne ended the relationship after a year because of guilt, but the husband continues to pursue her. Joanne comes by your outpatient clinical counseling office unexpectedly to tell you how much she appreciates you and just wants you to know how important you are to her. In further questioning, she admits to having a gun in her car. She refuses to stay and talk. She “just wants to go for a drive.”
Formatting and Writing Style
Your paper will be formatted in current APA style using the LU required Professional Version and will include a title page, body with APA formatted headings (levels 1-3), and a reference page; an abstract is not required. The number of sources used will include those required as indicated in each section of the paper in the Instructions, as well as the sources noted at the beginning of the instructions to guide your assessment and intervention of the case scenario client.
Your paper will be 4½ – 5 pages in length. Use the following as a template to format your assignment.
Title page: format in current APA style per the Online Writing Center (found under the Resources tab in the upper left corner of Canvas) Template and Sample papers.
Suicide Intervention Plan Template
Please note, the template may reformat or view differently as part of the instructions document in Canvas. It is recommend you download these instructions to Word to see the actual formatting.
Use this template to format your paper. Ensure APA format and graduate level writing style are followed, and use the Online Writing Center for guidance with these.
Reminders:
• Client is very high-risk high-risk (actively suicidal and engaging her plan).
• Support your work with scholarly sources. (Note: content taken from the case scenario does not need to be cited or referenced.)
You do not need to include an introduction to the paper and will begin immediately with the first level 1 heading below, “Presenting Problem”.
Presenting Problem
• Narrative paragraph(s), bullet points or list formatting is not permitted.
• Describe the presenting problem and identify the immediate crisis. Note: not all issues constitute the presenting problem. What is the presenting problem specifically?
• Address every high-risk detail that indicates the imminent nature of this client’s plan.
• Length: 1/4 page
Precipitating Event
• Narrative paragraph(s), bullet points or list formatting is not permitted.
• Identify the precipitating event(s). What events have led up to the Presenting Problem?
• Length: 1/4 page
Risk Factors
• Bullet point formatted, this section is not to be a narrative paragraph. Keep in mind, listing should list key points and should not include sentences.
• List in detail all the risk factors supporting why this is a very high-risk high-risk client.
• Include research identifying additional risk factors for the client in the scenario. Go beyond those factors implicitly stated and learn what other factors must be considered for this client as a counselor. For example, consider her ethnicity, culture, gender, age, socioeconomic status, etc.
• Length: 1/4 page
Resources and Protective Factors
• Narrative paragraph(s), bullet points or list formatting is not permitted.
• Identify the material, personal, and social, and community resources available to the individual and the challenges related. Again, you will need to go beyond those stated in the scenario. As a counselor, consider the resources available to her in the community at various levels. (Assume she resides in a adequately resourced community.)
• Address her both her current resources for the immediate need, as well as those that will benefit her and are available.
• This section requires you to identify known resources and protective factors, as well as referrals for the client beyond the scenario.
• Length: 1/2 page
Spirituality
• Narrative paragraph(s), bullet points or list formatting is not permitted.
• Format with the two (2) level 3 headings shown in this section: Ethical Considerations
and Spiritual Considerations
• Length: 1/2 page
• You do not need to include an introduction to the section and will begin immediately with the first level 3 heading below, “Ethical Considerations”.
Ethical Considerations
While may not always know a clients spirituality or current state of spirituality, we must act in accordance with the ACA and AACC Codes of Ethics in the “Suicide Intervention Plan Resources” found in the assignment link in Canvas. What do each of these ethics require when working with a very high-risk client? What do we know from the literature about the impact of spirituality in very high-risk clients? Length: ¼ page.
Spiritual Considerations
• Discuss the spiritual considerations for suicidal clients.
• We do not know this clients spiritual orientation. What does the research report about faith and suicide?
• At least one scholarly source required.
• Length: ¼ page
Interventions
• Bullet point formatted (as shown in Kolski et al. (2015) text), this section is not to be a narrative paragraph. Keep in mind, listing should list key points and should not include sentences.
• Using the TIP 50 resource in the “Suicide Intervention Plan Resources” found in the assignment link in Canvas, list the immediate interventions (pre-stabilization phase) for this very high-risk client.
• Notes:
• Keep in mind your setting (a private counseling office) and the very high-risk level of the client.
• Ensure the safety of you, the client, and the community.
• Notice, much of the risk assessment is provided in the case scenario.
• The interventions should meet the client in the present moment and immediate need to achieve stabilization.
• Length: ¼ page
Treatment Plan: Goals and Interventions
• For the treatment plan, the client has completed your recommended interventions in the previous section and is now stable.
• Approach the treatment plan for the the treatment frequency of 1 hour sessions at 1 time per week for 12 weeks/3 months.
• Five (5) problems are required: mental/psychological, biological/physical, emotional, social, and spiritual.
• Develop your treatment plan using the treatment planners found in the assignment link in Canvas: Klott & Jongsma (2015) and Kolski et al. (2015) as guides.
o The plan must be SMART: client-centered, individualized, specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, time-oriented, and appropriate for the client in the case scenario. Use the SMART resource found in the assignment link in Canvas.
o Copy-pasting from the Wiley Treatment Planners without including SMARTs will result in deductions.
• Both the counselor and client should be represented in the treatment plan demonstrating collaborative development. For example, if the counselor is responsible for all interventions, then the client is not accepting responsibility in their treatment outcomes.
• The purpose is to practice SMART treatment planning.
o You will only develop one plan for each problem.
o Each step can only contain one theme. For example, the objective can only have one objective addressed by one intervention. These cannot have multiple items (compounded) each or the plan will not likely be achieved by the client.
o Do not add additional goals, objectives and interventions for each problem for this assignment as you are gaining practice writing treatment plans rather than developing a full treatment plan for a client.
• Format each problem as shown in this example borrowed from ICANnotes.com (n.d.).:
Sample Problem 1 (mental): Mary’s anxiety has been identified as an active problem that requires treatment.
Goal 1: Mary will reduce overall level, frequency, and intensity of anxiety so that daily functioning is not impaired.
Objective 1: Mary will learn and practice at least 2 anxiety management techniques with goal of decreasing anxiety symptoms to less than 3 times per week
Intervention 1: Therapist/Counselor will teach and support Mary to learn and be able to verbalize at least 2 communication strategies that can help decrease anxiety to the point where anxiety will occur less than once per day.
• Length: 1-1¼ pages
• You do not need to include an introduction to the section and will begin immediately with the problem in the treatment plan.
Use the following template to format your treatment plan.
Problem 1 (mental): This should be a brief statement of the problem.
Goal 1: unbold
Objective 1: unbold
Intervention 1: unbold
Problem 2 (physical): This should be a brief statement of the problem.
Goal 1: unbold
Objective 1: unbold
Intervention 1: unbold
Problem 3 (emotional): This should be a brief statement of the problem.
Goal 1: unbold
Objective 1: unbold
Intervention 1: unbold
Problem 4 (social): This should be a brief statement of the problem.
Goal 1: unbold
Objective 1: unbold
Intervention 1: unbold
Problem 5 (spiritual): This should be a brief statement of the problem.
Goal 1: unbold
Objective 1: unbold
Intervention 1: unbold
Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the plagiarism tool.
References
ICANNotes.com (n.d.). Outpatient treatment plan. Retrieved October 19, 2022, from https://www.icanotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Sample-Mental-Health-Treatment-Plan.pdf
Klott, J., & Jongsma, A. E. (2015). The suicide and homicide risk assessment &
prevention ttreatment planner (2nd ed.). John Wiley & Sons.
Kolski, T. D., Jongsma, A. E., & Myer, R. A. (2015). The crisis counseling and traumatic
events treatment planner (2nd ed.). John Wiley & Sons.
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