Esteban Santiago's Case Paper

According to the National Veterans Foundation, “According to the RAND Center for Military Health Policy Research, 20% of the vets who served in either Iraq or Afghanistan suffer from either major depression or post-traumatic stress disorder” (National Veterans Foundation, 2016). Esteban Santiago is no exception… On Friday, January 6th, veteran Esteban Santiago was coming home to Florida from his travels in Alaska. Santiago had legally boarded his firearm concealed in his firearm case empty. He later took that gun to a bathroom and loaded it and shot and killed five civilians.
In the CNN news article “What we know about the Fort Lauderdale airport shooting suspect” written by CNN news writer, Ray Sanchez we are able to begin chipping away at the top of the iceberg. So what DO we know? We know that
In the unfortunate circumstance let’s assume that the crisis worker was unable to get to the scene before Sanchez started shooting at people. The first of two crisis intervention strategies I would like to evaluate an apply to this case in particular would be creating awareness. We are given the information that Esteban Santiago has had many stressors in his life. Esteban Santiago was a hero, he made it possible for United States citizens sleep safely at night. As we all know going to war can cause adverse effects on an individual. In exploring these underlying problems it is important to evaluate Santiago’s ABCs (affective, state, behavioral functioning, and his cognitive state) and address his psychiatric symptoms (his visions and hearing voices). It is so important for myself as the crisis worker to acknowledge these psychiatric symptoms, so that the client in this case, Esteban Santiago realize that we as the crisis worker are here to help and that we genuinely care about him as a person and his very real problems that he is dealing