Assignment Content
As you learn about the processes, procedures, and resources behind crisis intervention, it’s important to remember that at the center of it all is a real person who needs help. As a practitioner in criminal justice, you will have the ability to lift someone out of trouble and maybe even change their future. To be effective, the crisis intervention team must be prepared with solid administrative processes and procedures in place and team members who understand and follow these processes and procedures.
In this summative assessment, you create your own hypothetical scenario to tell the story of someone with a mental health issue or intellectual disability who is involved in an interaction with the criminal justice system, and to demonstrate the crisis intervention response and the administrative processes and procedures that come into play.
You will share your scenario in next week’s discussion post for others to analyze. Your scenario can have a positive or negative outcome and can show strategies that worked, actions that didn’t work, or a combination of both. Use what you learned in your interview during Wk 2 to help frame the reactions and responses.
Review the Kevin Hits Rock Bottom case study in the Learning Activities folder for an example of a criminal justice-related scenario.
Choose a formatting option for your assignment. You may use the Case Study Template, or you can choose to present your case in a different way, such as in audio or video format.
Your written case study (or the script if you use an audio or video format) should be approximately 700 words.
Create a case study scenario for a person with a mental health issue or an intellectual disability who experiences a crisis resulting in the involvement of the criminal justice system. Address the following in your case:
Provide the backstory on the individual’s diagnosis, symptoms, and outward expressions.
Explain the crisis, including any relevant events leading up to it.
Describe the response (positive or negative) of the criminal justice system, including, but not limited to:
Cops
Crisis intervention team (e.g., social worker, parole officer, community resources)
Courts
Corrections
Explain administrative processes and procedures related to the intervention, and if they worked or did not work as designed.
Describe an ending (positive or negative) for the crisis intervention.
Create unique and relevant headings for each part of the story, including backstory, crisis, response, and resolution.
Include a minimum of 3 appropriate images to help make a connection to the people involved in the case.
