Safety Plan for Trauma and Suicide Prevention

Cluster 5 Written
project
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Case study 1
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A) Safety plan for Mary-Jane Step 1: Resources to minimise the risk of suicide
 Provide her with financial support.
 Delivery and access of suicide care.
Step 2: Strategies to minimise the risk of suicide
 It would be helpful to provide social network.
 Active Participation in treatments.
Step 3: Other services or individuals
 Mary Jane can ask for support from her sister.
 She could visit a rehabilitation centre to get rid of drugs.
B) Discuss how you would address trauma issues in relation to each person by answering the
questions below.
1)Develop resources and strategies with the person to minimise risk of suicide.
There are number of treatments and therapies available that could help Mary Jane to
reduce the risk of suicide. Some of the psychological treatments for eliminating the risk of
suicide include Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Cognitive therapy for suicide prevention and
many more (Menschner and Maul, 2016). As Mary Jane is coping up with Borderline personality
disorder, selected individual should be in some physical activities and try to keep herself busy in
order to prevent thoughts of committing suicide.
2)What other services or individuals could form part of the safety plan?
In personalized safety plan of Mary Jane, other services such as evidence based
treatments and a professional therapist could help Mary Jane to deal with difficulties. Mary Jane
could indulge herself in some social activities where she could get distract her mind from her
problems. It would help selected individual to be busy during day time and to reduce difficulties
from her life. This specific strategy would be beneficial for Mary Jane to share her thoughts and
feelings with others.
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3)What are the risk factors and possible triggers for suicide in this case study?
Major risk factors in this particular case study is regular intake of harmful substances
such as alcohol, benzodiazepines, opiates and cannabis by individual given in this case study. It
will mentally effect Mary Jane and eventually results in occurrence of depression and anxiety
and will worsen overall all health condition of individual. Another major risk factor for
committing suicide is being homeless which could result in development of such thoughts in her
mind.
4) How would you determine the level of risk?
Level of risk can be determine through calculating the probability of risk and impact of
risk (Steele and et.al., 2018). In context with this case, risk of committing suicide is quite
possible as selected individual is experiencing number of traumatic issues since her childhood
days. Level of committing suicide is high due to lack of parental support and experiencing
physical and sexual abuse at a very young age. Such factors are responsible for arrival of such
drastic thoughts in mind of selected individual.
5)How would you respond to the person’s suicidal thinking?
After knowing the whole situation of Mary-Jane, I would help her by providing
emotional support. I would ask some particular questions from selected individual such as why
she is thinking about hurting herself. Talking to her directly about her current feeling would be
helpful even it may result in an awkward situation. I will listen to the client seriously and show
some gestures of support. After that I will share concern of the client to a professional care
worker that could help her to eliminate risk of suicide.
6)How would you respond to disclosures of trauma by the person?
I will listen to the individual carefully and suggest some ways to find some solution
regarding the situation. As soon as she tells me about what she is going through, I would analyse
the whole situation and try to find out the causes of such kind of condition she is experiencing. It
would help me to develop a positive relationship with Mary Jane. I would motivate my client to
deal with the situation in an effective manner and to look for a therapist or some treatment that
could help Mary Jane.
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