Case Study Joey Black

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Joey Black, is a 5th grade student with spastic cerebral palsy. Joey uses a walker and the elevator due to left side hemiplegia and stiff and jerky movements. He also has difficulty to speak and a slurred speech, but does not have any learning disability. Joey is a new student in his current school, and his teacher observed that besides not having many friends he is also showing some anger behavior towards the other students. The school nurse engaged Joey in therapeutic conversation and was able to built up a trust relationship with him. Joey states to the school nurse that because he has disability people teases him and treat him as if he was stupid. He also states missing his friend from his old school.
Due to his health condition, Joey believes that the other students treat him differently and for this reason he is showing anger behavior. The school nurse will need to coordinate his care with the other school's personnel, such as teachers, counselor, psychologist, physiotherapist, speech therapist, social services, principal, and parents. The school nurse will have to know the resources available at her school district, in order to help create an environment that promotes the best educational and emotional support to Joey. …show more content…
in order to offer an excellent educational program to students, a team of professionals needs to work together for an integrated school health program. The Coordinate School Health Model encompass comprehensive health education, physical education, school health services, school nutrition services, health promotion to staff that can be adapted to student, school counseling, psychological, and social services, healthy school environment, and family and community services involvement in the school. The Coordinate School Health Model is the optimal model to use in this situation because it incorporates a whole system in behalf of the
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