Shown Nelson Case study

Document Type:Essay

Subject Area:Social Work

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Even so devastating is when such an officer has been dismissed under unclear circumstances and without benefits attached to it. These are some of the issues that are hard to cope with and only require good counseling sessions and therapeutic processes. When these factors are taken care of, problems such as stress and suicidal thoughts can be prevented and averted in the event they have reached a certain level. It is based on the post-dismissal effects from duty that this task sets out to present a biological, physical, psychological, and environmental perspective of such events, with specific reference to Nelson Shawn’s case. He had served in the military during a peacekeeping mission in Germany from where he was relieved of his duties and had resumed his family responsibilities as a plumber in a move that was seen to help him cope with the healthy life.

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After a short while, Shawn found himself in the company of the police, leading them into a freeway. In the process, he finds himself stuck on the concrete highway. The police officers would then get the chance to surround the tank, open the hatch with the bolt cutters and opened live fire on him. This happened when he was only 35. This was such an unfortunate, yet the justified course of action given the prevailing circumstances at the time (Faludi, 50). The years culminating to the fateful day were apparently maddening and terrible to Shawn Nelson. It was these issues that led to his addiction, with the specific drug he abused being methamphetamine. This was immediately after getting involved in the terrible accident.

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Besides, it is captured that Nelson had lost his parents to cancer and a few years before the tank theft, he had been in grief, mourning his girlfriend who had just died of a drug overdose (Faludi, 51). It is essential to take note of the fact that Shawn was still suffering from the pains of the motorcycle accident and the drug he decided to check on this pain was already taking a toll on him, especially with his perception of that which is real. In Shawn, the psychological issues quite play out. The hardships and the challenges he goes through are the sources of his psychological and mental problems prompting him to behave in the manner he did. Be that as it may, he is dismissed without any benefits attached, and this leaves him devastated.

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This case makes use of stress-vulnerability theory in explaining the events of Shawn’s psychological vulnerability, his stresses and the biological factors that cause his depressive tendencies. This case sympathizes with his situation and notes that it was only fair that he got better treatment. Had he got a better environment, his troubles would have been reduced to manageable levels. This was a tall order. To worsen the situation, his tools were stolen from his truck, and this rendered him jobless, at least for the second time after having been fired from his previous job (Faludi, 55). His addiction is directly linked to this incident. Physical Factors The physical factors worth considering, in this case, include those factors that shape human behavior as well as their impacts on one another.

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Based on this mechanism, an individual choses to do something as informed and dictated by their emotional grounds, and whether such is good or bad is a non-issue to them. They simply justify their choices and actions. Such is Nelson. Such factors can be averted by initiating the most appropriate way of dealing with the case. Treating Nelson with some decorum and care would have served as the most celebrated remedy for the case, thereby arresting the whole situation. To take over the control of the tank, there were some ways, including running another tank at it, having an RPG, placing a box in it comprising bulldozers and trucks, and putting a land mine if possible, at least these would help, rather than shoot the driver of the tank (Faludi, 53).

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