Spindle Top Center “Changing People’s Lives Using Innovative Services”
- Crisis Intervention
Summer, 2013
SpindleTop Center “Changing People’s Lives Using Innovative Services”
Introduction
SpindleTop Center (formally Spindle top MHMR) has been serving the community since 2000 with outpatient services for mental health and individuals with mental retardation. For the purpose of this paper we will only discuss the mental health services the agency offers to the community. In order to capture everything this agency provides crisis intervention services to the community I conducted a face to face interview with Ms. Anita Morrow of the Specialized Psychiatric …show more content…
It’s increasingly important to be able to recognize the key concepts of the ecological systems theory and to be able to identify what characteristics set this theory apart from other theories. Once this level of competence is achieved, the workers should be able to identify what kind of problems the client is experiencing. According to Hepworth, Rooney, Dewberry Rooney, Strom-Gottfried, and Larsen (2010), the ecological systems theory suggests a client’s engagement with other people and systems within the environment are two of the most influential factors that determine human needs.
The ecological systems theory makes it clear that it is desirable to have a positive and well-balanced niche and habitat. This is because “the satisfaction of human needs and mastery of developmental task require adequate resources in the environment and positive transactions between people and their environment” (Hepworth, Rooney, Dewberry Rooney, Strom-Gottfried, and Larsen, …show more content…
Morrow says they often deal with challenges in ethical dilemma due to the conflicting needs between the clients and their family wants, which makes it a very difficult in making the ethical choice. I understand and in and agree with her, as I witness during our crisis call out. As family had called on their sister after assessing the sister her recommendation was for the client to come into the clinic on the next morning, she was not at risk her family insisted she was and wanted her impatient for safety. This would be a big dilemma for me as well; in a crisis intervention many ethical dilemmas will arise how we handle them will be key role to solving the