CASE STUDY

In 1972 a military infantryman flew home alone from Vietnam. When he arrived in his hometown, San Antonio, TX, no one was there to greet him. His return was not communicated to his family, and his wife was at work in the mayor's office while his six-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son were at school. Feeling confused and without family, friends, or military support, he took a bus to a nearby stop and walked the remainder of the way home. He searched out two guns in his home and asked his neighbor if he could borrow her car. He then left to pick up his children at school and walked into the school firing at faculty and students. Several teachers and students were gunned down. He found his two children, took them, and left for the San Antonio mayor's office to find his wife. At that time he left his children in the car, re-loaded his guns, and went into his wife's office, again firing his guns and apparently killing several individuals including a number of councilpersons, police officers, and the mayor.

You are a Professor of Counselor Education and Supervision at a university in San Antonio, TX. Apply the Six-Step Model of Crisis Intervention for responding in this community.

• Provide an analysis of the crisis depicted in the Case Study in this week's Learning Resources.
• Explain how you would apply the Hybrid Model to the crisis in the Case Study.
• Integrate Maslow's model into your evaluation and explain how you did so.

LEARNING RESOURCES:

Best, D., Day, E. McCarthy, T., Darlington, I., & Pinchbeck, K. (2008). The hierarchy of needs and care planning in addiction services: What Maslow can tell us about addressing competing priorities?Links to an external site. Addiction Research & Theory, 16(4), 305-307.