Reflecting upon traumatic loss and crisis, consider how you may best serve your community as it relates to policy, education, or intervention as a SOCIAL WORKER. Please use three mainstream articles and cite your articles in this reflection. Discuss recent traumatic shootings of “Columbine High School shootings in 1999”
In hindsight, what were some possible interventions that may have avoided these tragedies? Relate this to policy issues particularly, for example, background checks for the purchase of guns, and the controversy that surrounds the privacy of mental health patients. The stigma surrounding mental health issues in our society which reinforces the reluctance to reach out for help.
Again, please use three mainstream articles and cite your articles in this reflection. How do you see social workers being a part of the intervention? You can find these tragic events online. Read about them and answer the questions listed. This journal assignment should be four pages typed and you may use first person in the journal assignments.