Post your initial response to the following:

• After learning about Stephanie, imagine that you had been the school social worker at the time of her suicidal ideation. Which indicators would you have looked for in Stephanie and why?
• How would you have responded to each of those indicators? What kinds of questions would you have asked her and why?

Please use the Learning Resources to support your response.

FEMALE SPEAKER: I want

to take care of her. I really do. I mean, she's my mom, and she's

not getting any younger. But I deserve my own

life, my own place. And I'm always tired of feeling

like I'm suffocating all the time. It's just-- It's so confusing. I love her, you know? FEMALE SPEAKER: I understand

that you want a place of your own to live. You mentioned before that you

and your mother argue a lot. FEMALE SPEAKER: A lot? How about all the time? And all that stuff she hoards,

it's just like, I'm drowning in it. It's like there's more room

for her junk than there is for us. It just drives me crazy. Right to the hospital

sometimes. FEMALE SPEAKER: How many times

have you been hospitalized? FEMALE SPEAKER: Let's see. Three times in four years. I think I mentioned to you

that I'm bipolar, and I'm lousy dealing with stress. Oh. Wait, um, there was

another time that I was in the hospital. I tried to commit suicide. I guess I was pretty lousy

at that too, otherwise I wouldn't be here. FEMALE SPEAKER: What made

you want to do it? I was a teenager. And when you're a teenager, you

find a reason every day to try to kill yourself, right? I was-- I was depressed. I remember one night I went out

with some of my friends. And, um, they were all looking

up at the sky and talking about how pretty

the stars were. And all I could think about was

that that sky was nothing more than a black eye. It was lifeless, and it could

care less about any of us. When they finally let

me go home from the hospital, my family-- wow-- what a trip they were. They didn't want to talk about

what I had tried to do. That was off-limits. I tried to kill myself. And I they acted like nothing

ever happened. I've never told anybody

that before. FEMALE SPEAKER: Are you seeing

a psychiatrist now? FEMALE SPEAKER: Um, I go

to a clinic, and I see him once a month. I also go to drop-in centers for

group sessions, mostly for my depression. FEMALE SPEAKER: What

about medications? FEMALE SPEAKER: Hell, yeah. They're my lifesaver. FEMALE SPEAKER: What

are you taking? FEMALE SPEAKER: Let's see. For the bipolar I take

lithium, Paxil. Oh. Wait a minute. I made a list so I would

not forget the medications that I take. Let's see. I take lithium, Paxil,

Abilify, Klonopin--