Introduction
My family is among the families nursing the wounds of losing a child following the recent shooting at Tangle Wood Middle School in Greenville. Losing has not been easy as all my family members are in deep anguish. The saddest part of any individual in this life is losing a loved one. Losing a loved one sometimes even leads to some people having post-traumatic disorders that affect their well-being. My brother had invested in the boy, and everyone expected a lot from the child. The boy dreamt of being a pilot, and for once, we were hoping to have a family pilot who would help us across the entire globe. I remember my mum expressing her sorrow following the death of his grandson that she once dreamt of traveling in an airplane where our nephew was a pilot. The grief was escalated by the fact that she had stayed for three days without knowing the whereabouts of her grandson. Therefore, a report from the police officers that our nephew was among the kids who were found dead after the mass shooting at Tanglewood Middle School caught us by surprise. Everyone, more so my mother and my younger brother, seemed to have developed some psychiatric issues that have to be addressed with an immediate effect.
Methods for Developing Rapport
All the family members are in a worrying time, and now the focus is not on the burial logistics but more attention is for enhancing their well-being. No one was prepared to handle the grief everyone was passing through. However, one aspect that will help develop a rapport with all the victims is understanding the effects of the trauma on each family member. This will help identify the family member affected the most and those that can be used to help others recover quickly. The other aspect that will help develop a rapport among the family members is discussing how the death occurred and how dangerous the situation was. In addition, one can also explain some of the efforts made to try and save the child.
Mentioning other family members who are passing through such a crisis will also help develop a rapport with all the family members affected by the problem. Another aspect that can help build camaraderie among the family members is inviting all the victims to plan and participate in various burial logistics to enhance inner healing (Kentor & Kaplow, 2020). Such activities will enhance some inner peace, hence initiating the healing process.
Differences Noted
Patients experiencing a crisis tend to be broken compared to those not experiencing any problem. A lot of care is needed when addressing the issues that affect a family with an emergency. The choice of words is critical when dealing with patients with crises. To avoid worsening the problem, one must be more empathetic (Benson et al., 2022). In other words, a patient in a situation requires more empathetic listening than other patients. They may not require any medication rather than being comforted and assured of their well-being. In addition, patients experiencing a crisis tend to be more vulnerable to mental illness than those without a grievous problem.
Steps that Were Taken to Work on the Patient
Dealing with a family in a crisis requires a lot of professionalism. The first step of working with a patient or a family experiencing a problem is listening without being defensive (Westoby et al., 2022). Ensure that the client has the upper hand as they express their grief and frustrations. Even if the situation is not grievous in an ideal case, one must identify with their feelings to offer a long-lasting solution. The next step involves comforting the patients by using words that express one’s sorrow. In addition, saying sorry can help the patient to recover quickly. The other step consists in collaborating with the patient to bring up the solution that will solve their issue. In this step, one has to offer amends without any excuses. The step assures the patient of healing and helps rebuild the critical trust in providing a long-lasting solution to the crisis.
Safety Plans and Intervention Steps
When dealing with a family with a crisis, the first safety plan is to create awareness of the impending dangers that the family is likely to experience if the situation is not solved promptly. In other words, the first intervention plan involves talking to the family about the crisis and allowing them to understand the dangers they are exposing their lives to taking the trouble too far (Young et al. 2020). Once the family members know of the impending dangers, the next step involves solving the situation promptly. For instance, the family members should be involved in the burial logistics or plan of an event or activity that will help them bid farewell to the lost child. The scene could create more psychological disorders, especially if the family members received the news using the media. Therefore, the family members should plan and visit the school to comprehend the entire situation and initiate the healing process. In addition, all the victims should be allowed to pour out their grief by expressing their pain before the healing process is initiated.
Ethical Issues
Condemning the shooting can help in initiating healing among the victims. The state’s leaders ought to denounce the situation with immediate effect. In addition, the family members ought to experience the impact of the corridors of justice by the perpetrators being tracked by the state’s officers to ensure that justice takes its course. The family may feel dejected and left out if such a crisis is not solved with an immediate effect. The family would appreciate situations where the state takes legal steps to ensure that such problems do not affect other families.
Practices Aligned With the State and National Standards
Intentional response to the situation that led to the crisis should be the first step toward offering a long-lasting solution to the problem affecting the family. Other practices in line with the national standards and the MTF discipline involve helping the family recover from the trauma and conducting a good send-off for their loved one. In addition, the victims of this shooting should be permitted to recover fully. Other students ought to be assured of their security to avoid repeating the crisis. The aspect is linked to the fact that if such an occasion repeats itself, the situation may affect the family.
Personal Experience
People with different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds require different approaches to solve their crises. In most cases, working with a family with diverse cultural and social beliefs empowers physicians to develop their skills and talents to manage such victims effectively. In other words, diversity among families boosts problem-solving capabilities and increases productivity and happiness at the workplace. Much flexibility is required as families with varying beliefs can only be solved by diversifying the medical approaches that solve their crisis. In other words, a lot of preparation and flexibility are required to deal with warring families, especially those with different cultural and social beliefs.
Family Experiences
Losing a young boy in a family may be viewed as harmful. Convincing such a family of shootings as an accident may take centuries. In other words, the family experiences in terms of what they believe in may ease or complicate the process of self-of-the-therapist, let alone the multicultural diversity. For instance, the family believes that losing a teenager at a tender age is a bad omen, especially a young boy. This means that the family’s security is compromised, and an urgent solution has to be offered to overcome the crisis.
Case Study Treatment Plan
The risk assessment activities will include assessing the situation that triggered the crisis. In this case, the problem was started by a merciless shooting in a school. The second activity involves seeing the crisis as threatening to help in offering an urgent solution. The third activity involves staging a disorganized response to support the family in understanding the reason behind the situation. The other activity consists of searching for a solution to help the family deal with the mounting tension. The other activity will initiate the family into adapting and coping with the new strategies and the situation at hand. This will help the family heal and associate with the crisis at hand.
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