14 pages in length. The writer provides a client/counselor script of a fictional treatment session where the counselor follows the six steps of Gilliland and James's crisis intervention method, and then gives an overview of how the counselor handled the session. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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you? (Simon nods). Changes you didnt necessarily want or bring about yourself, is that right? (Simon nods). Will you elaborate on what has happened over the past several
weeks that encouraged you to be here with me today? Simon: My job was taken right from under me when the company closed my branch. Fifteen years of
loyalty and this is how I am repaid? I am coming up on fifty years old - how am I supposed to change jobs - and maybe even careers
- at this point in my life? Ill tell you doctor, this has thrown me into a tailspin: I cannot sleep, my concentration is nonexistent and I am consumed
by feelings of failure and hopelessness, mostly because I cannot bring myself to get back out into the game and find another job, which has caused my wife - who
has only needed to work part-time until now - to take a full-time job just to support the family. That has always been my responsibility, and now I cannot
even do that right. Counselor: So your sense of failure and hopelessness revolve around not being able to financially support your family, while the unexpected loss of your long-term
job has created a presence of fear and intimidation as you consider having to reintroduce yourself to a different workforce? Simon: Yes, that is exactly correct. Anymore it
takes everything I have just to get out of bed in the morning. Counselor: (sitting forward, elbows on knees) Simon, I want you to know something from the very
start: I am here to help you through this unsettling time in your life, and I will see you through it all the way to the resolution we make together;