Violent Adolescent Drug Abuse

Samuel is a 15-year-old male arriving on a Wednesday evening to the Anger and Substance Abuse Clinic. Samuel has been in the foster care system for thirteen years and with his current family for a year. The learner will have the chance to speak to the foster parents alone and to elicit a recent history of unprovoked angry outbursts. The learner must then engage the patient, de-escalate as needed, establish rapport, and get further history. The simulation then has a 12 hour time jump to the next morning where the learner must again interview the patient, present the drug screen results, and use therapeutic communication to further explore his history.

Authored by:  Gloria Dixon DNP MSN RN CNE

Learning Objectives

– Apply the principle of therapeutic communication leading to deescalated adolescent anger
– Practice and apply empathy for the adolescent experiencing self-destructive behaviors
– Analyze the communication for errors and progress points