She Is Too Young Crisis Analysis

Identify Crisis and Precipitating event The crisis identified in the movie She is Too Young, school has an outbreak of syphilis. The precipitating event is due to teenagers’ engaging in unprotected promiscuous sexual activities. Hannah who is one of the main characters falls for the attentions of one of the schools popular guys, Nick Hartman. Nick has had countless number of sex partners and casually ignores the risk of his behavior. He successfully pressures Hannah to fellate him on their second date, and then unsuccessfully invites her to an orgy for their third. Dawn, another one of Hannah’s friends and, one of Nick's recent sexual partners, confesses that she's contracted syphilis, which leads to a investigation by public-health officials. Later, Hannah discovers she has also contacted syphilis along with dozens of infected students.
How the Crisis was handled One the out break is discovered, the public health department begins testing all the students who
have had contact with Dawn. They send out memo’s to these students and instruct them to come and be test for the STD; the students that do show up and are found to have the infection are given a vaccine and information on how to prevent from contacting it in the future. Hannah’s mother joins the crusade to bring the parents together and confront the under aged partying and casual sex activities that has led the schools outbreak of syphilis.
What differing perceptions of the crisis?
Clients’ perspective Becca, one of Hannah’s friends like many of the other infected students were upset and fearful about the outbreak. Unlike Hannah, Becca continued her promiscuous behavior because she felt she was okay to continue after she had received treatment for the STD. Both Hannah and Becca were afraid to admit to their parents that they were infected. They were afraid that their how to their parents would them with view disappointment and disdain. When Hannah later told her mother she was infected, and her mother was hurt yet understanding, she still felt the pressure to be perfect for her parents and to fit in among her peers. Hannah’s friend Dawn, no longer engaged in sexual activities. Although she was rejected by her peers, she felt a sense of relief and felt she was able to create a better relationship with her mother. Nick and some of his friends, who were also infected, continued their attitude of supremacy and infallibility. Nick continued to believe that everyone was making a big deal out the outbreak and mocked the public health officials. He continued to see the out break as nothing more than ridiculous. He felt he was impenetrable; however, when it came to his parents he felt lonely and isolated because his parents were never at home.
Family Perspective Dawn, Becca and Hannah’s parents were all upset over the syphilis out break.
Hannah’s mother wanted to make sure the parents were informed. She began talking to the parents in the community which had a negative affect on Hannah, there once solid relation declined as Hannah withdrew further away from her. Dawn and her mother discuss the crisis briefly after Dawn to her she had the STD. She was outraged and blamed the school for the epidemic. Dawn’s mother attended the meeting which Hannah’s mother put together to find out more information. Like Dawn’s mother, Becca’s parents blamed the school for the crisis. Although still oblivious that her daughter had contacted the STD, Becca’s mother and father decided to send Becca away to another school so she wouldn’t be infected with the STD. In contrast, Nick mother took no action or interested in the crisis. Her attitude was “boys will be boys” and she was more concerned with Nick getting into a prestigious college than his sexual
activities.

The Community Perspective Most of the people in the community were concerned with the crisis and were willing to discuss it; however; only a few were willing attend the meeting that was held but the public health department. Most who attended the meeting, offered no solutions to solve the underlying problem, which was how to prevent this outbreak from spreading and getting the teens to put an end to their teens sexual activities. A few parents did offer positive suggestion on how to discuss peer pressure affects their kids when it comes to sex.
Suggest Steps for Elevating Crisis
In my view the steps for elevating the syphilis epidemic is to first stop the syphilis epidemic from spreading. Greenstone(2002) explains that
Steps for teaching and coping skills and developing resilience
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Suggested possible Diagnosis (DSM)
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