you will take on the role of a counselor with a bereaved client do a script of a hypothetical counseling session. The script will be at least 20 responses, including 10 from the client and 10 from the counselor. Your responses as the counselor will include crisis intervention techniques. What factors would you attend to when assessing the situation and the client's mental and emotional state? How would age be relevant in your assessment and intervention process? Who might you consult with regarding this situation? What might you do differently if the client was Chinese or from Puerto Rico? Consider playing up the potential risks and respond to those risks. See the cases provided below.

You will present the following:

• A brief introduction to the client scenario. Ensure you do not use up your counseling script getting to know each other!
• The counseling session script.
• A discussion of the crisis interventions you applied in the session.
• A discussion of how your client's developmental life stage affected your application of your chosen approach.
• A reflection of how you might respond to your selected client, including any multicultural considerations.

This discussion response should be a minimum five hundred words and maximum of seven hundred words, with at least two references.

Cases

1. The Cortez Family: The husband dies while in his early 50s. The wife has one teenage daughter at home and one son in his first year of college. She seems to be functioning normally from outward appearances. The day after the funeral, she goes to her bridge club without noticeable grief.
2. Hattie: Hattie is in her late 40s, is legally blind, and has just been through a separation and divorce. She has no children, lives away from a family support system, and cries frequently, even at work.
3. Pat: Pat is experiencing bereavement following a recent diagnosis of being HIV-positive at age 25. He is struggling to go to work, does not want to eat and is no longer socially involved with his close friends. His most recent partner comes to counseling with him, but is upset about the diagnosis for personal reasons, though he cares for Pat.
4. Joyce is an 84-year-old woman who is calling you on a help line because she is afraid. Joyce's initial call to the crisis center was vague and guarded. She called after receiving a warning from her son that he will hospitalize her. She said, "He seemed so frustrated, but it has been building up for the past few weeks. I guess it was my fault . . . I complained about being alone at night. He started raising his voice at me. He said I have to get on with my life. Lewis, my husband, has been dead for seven months, but I can't stop crying. We were married for 52 years."