Reference no: EM133472880

Case Study:Violence Affecting Families

Crisis is a temporary state of severe disequilibrium forpersons who face a threatening situation. Thecommunity health nurse has been requested to followup on domestic violence cases as part of the workload.The student nurse is accompanying the communityhealth nurse on the visits. The community healthnurse is assessing the student nurse's currentunderstanding of violence affecting families by askingsome theoretical questions concerning this critical issue.

Question 1. The student nurse shares with the communityhealth nurse that a crisis is a state thatindividuals can neither avoid nor solve with theirusual coping abilities and occurs when someforce disrupts normal functioning, therebycausing a loss of balance or normalcy in life.Crises create tension; subsequently, efforts aremade to solve the problem and reduce thetension. The community health nurse asks thestudent nurse to identify and describe the twomain types of crisis. What is a brief description ofthe two types of crisis?

Question 2. The community health nurse has to follow up onan abuse case involving a child and adolescent.The community health nurse asks the studentnurse what are the ages that child abuse occursNUR4636and how is shaken baby syndrome orMunchausen syndrome diagnosed?

Question 3. Community health nurses use three levels ofprevention when working with families. Whattype of focus is involved in the three levels ofprevention?

Question 4. People in crisis need and often seek help. Crisisintervention builds on these two phenomena toachieve its primary goal-reestablishment ofequilibrium. What are the two major methodswith a brief description of crisis intervention?