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Problem

Triage Assessment on Tom

The Case of Tom

Tom, his wife Sheila, and his daughter Renee (age 7) live in a small town surrounded by a large agricultural area. Tom is employed as a heavy equipment operator. He likes the outdoors, particularly hunting, and he prides himself on being "macho." He was an excellent high school athlete and could have gone to a small college on a football scholarship. But he took a job working for his father and an uncle, married Sheila (who had been his classmate and the high school homecoming queen), and obligated himself with a large mortgage on a home next door to his parents'. Tom began to drink heavily, drive fast cars, take frequent risks on the highways, get into fights at taverns, come home late at night, and neglect his physical health. He felt remorseful, guilty, depressed, and suicidal following each fling at a tavern. Sheila and her supervisor at work repeatedly attempted to persuade Tom to see a therapist. Sheila finally prevailed on Tom to call the tricounty crisis line after she walked into their bedroom at 7:30 P.M. Saturday and discovered him preparing to shoot himself in the head. The volunteer crisis worker received the call from Tom later that evening.

Use the end of the form to address the following items:

1. Identify one action strategy that provides client support.
2. Define the problem.
3. Identify one alternative.
4. Identify one planning action step.
5. Identify one client coping strength.
6. Identify one referral/ network resource. Get the instant assignment help.
7. Identify one commitment that you would initiate a client contract on in order to facilitate the client following through with the action plan.
8. State the contract that you would propose with the client.