scenario 1+2

Changing School
Bob is a 15 year old boy. In the past years he has changed school approximately once a year. It is very hard for him to change school. Every change has meant months for him to get accostumed to the new routines of the new school.
This has great personal cost to him. He gets sad and introvert every time he changes school. While the transition takes place he does not profit from teaching and his development is stagnant. He needs help to to train the different problematic elements connected to changing school. After training the various elements can be isolated and improved individually. Eg. How to act when Bob is insecure about his seat in the classroom? Who to talk to when I need a toilet? Where can I smoke? How do I react when I feel unfairly treated etc.


Youth Jobs

Willy is a 14 year old boy, who in many ways can profit from a youth job. He has many strenghts in organizing and other manual labour fields like floor sweeping. He strongly dislikes being corrected or instructed, when he has started his job. He gets depressed and feels diminished.
The major problem in this connection is that he becomes very aggressive, when confronted.
This is percived by the surroundings as strange and offensive- Willy needs help to improve his ability to recieve instruction and react sensibly when instructed.

HANDs Scenarios by Tobias Berglund

Scenario 1

Jim is a fourteen year old boy who has gone from having many behavioural problems to being a well functioning and independent person. He travels to and from school with public transportations. Hes “freedom” can many times cause him problems, as he has trouble with impulse control. He often leaves home very early in the morning and can show up at school about 1 hour before it starts. When Jim finishes school he often goes on a trip somewhere, it could be a radio or tv station or go to a mall. Hes main problem when it come to his impulse control is that he has trouble following several social rules, especially when it comes to when it is appropriate to visit/seek up someone, it could be staff at school or a radiohost who he dig, this mainly happens on his way to and from school, for example, if he hears that one of “his” radio hosts is ill and not will be able to host the show , he can go and visit this person just to say “get better” , this can sometimes lead him into bothersome situations.

Scenario 2

Stefanie is a girl who is fourteen years old. She likes to come too school and performs well in her studies, she is very independent when it comes to work in school, when she has access to staff, the staff doesn`t necessarily need to be in the same room but she have to know that they are in the vicinities.

She often gets insecure when she is supposed to do something by herself, she then demands that staff follows her to and from activities in even if it only means a short walk across the schoolyard. This often gets her into arguments when she also wants to decide which staffmember that is to escort her,

She also bully and boss around with classmates when staff not is in the same room, and when confronted she gets angry at her classmates and at staff “cause she is only trying to keep order in the classroom” , in both situations this later leads to her being rueful and sad, telling that she is sorry and that she knows not to do so.

Scenario 3

Lars is 16 years old he is very “socially competent” . He has some things he is phobic about but especially food. Lars asks questions about which food is to be served for lunch, and has imagenary thoughts about the most strange dishes and is afraid that he would sometime get one of them. ( in sweden pupils get lunch at school) He also has problems not knowing where the food comes from, who have cooked it and if the kitchen where it was cooked is clean. When eating out is the same thing, with one exception, Mc Donalds, Lars says that he knows that “at McDonalds it is always clean in the kitchen and the staff is always rigorous about their hygiene” . He also is phobic about germs and bacteria, and can ask ig he will get sick just because someone touched him or that he was in the same room where someone sneezed. If he not get convinced in any of the cases above he gets very anxious and can almost have a breakdown.

Scenario 4

Simon is a 14 year old boy who often gets into conflicts, this is because he often feels threatened by other pupils, it can be enough that someone looks at him and he feels like they stare at him and he then wonders if they do so to tease him. When he has been in a conflict with someone he gets very revengeful and he then constantly needs to know where that person is, if that person is talking about him , when he see that person again he have an urge to go and confront him over and over again, and this inevitably leads to a very difficult situation for Simon

Scenario 3

Failure of contact.
Ax is a 16 year old boy.
His well-intentioned attempts of approaching interresting people often fails.
E.g: To impress a small girl from the public school next door, he pretends that his cousin is a drugdealer, and if she wants some hash she just have to say. The day after he is forced to face the girls worried father who wants an explanaition of what`s going on around here.
Another example: A new boy is coming to his class. The new is very interested in computers. Ax tryes to contact him by, when a game is going on, repeatedly disconnecting the sound of the computer. The other guy asks him to stop, removes his hand from the button several times, but in the end sees no other way than to hit him with his fist in the chest. Ax was chocked, but though he has experienced identical reactions many times, he (his parents tells) still and often feel, that he`s being misunderstood.

Scenario 2

Fear of crowded places
Pete is a 16 years old boy.
His school once a year travels to Norway to do some skiing. The foresight of being in an airport, being in a crowded airplane and travelling in a bus gives hin headace and nausea.In his educational book he writes:

"I would wery much like to learn strategies to emprove my abilities to cope in crowded places"

Scenario 1

Uncontrollable flow of thoughts
Al is a 15 year old boy with ASD.
He is easily taken for being cantankerous or cussed.
His approach to especially adult persons in his scool is often a sort of "verbal karate". A game he can loose or win. E.g. when he is starting a lesson in math. Al: "What am I supposed to do now?" Ad: " As you can se on your scedual; math." Al: "Define math!". Ad: "Today it`s page 26" Al :"Is that math" Ad: "It`s math today" Al: "What about all the rest of math?" Ad: "You can`t do all mathstuff in one lesson" Al: "We learn nothing in this scool" and so on and on and on. When the teacher gives up Al proudly exclaims: " Ha!- looser!"When Al in spring 2007 schould participate in the National online test in Danish he ran into severe troubles.He saw in the texts so many variables and found it so hard to prioritise, that, inspite of good understanding, he proceeded wery slow. From his seat, he was forced to watch other pupils walk away finished, while he himself was stuck in considerations. The experience schocked him so much, that he was released from the test in physics later the same day.

Scenario 5

Smalltalk
Brian is a 17 year old young man. He often participates with great enthusiasm in social gatherings among his friends and family. He has a hard time getting into conversation that does not include cars and cats, that are his special interest. Any invitation for conversation is cut off with a short “Yes!” or “No!” Brian, on the other hand, likes talking for prolonged periods if the subject is within his interests. In these situations it is almost impossible for others to enter the conversation.
Brian needs training in conversation outside his major subjects and he needs to accept others in conversation.

Scenario 4

Friends
Joe is a 13 year old boy who desperately wants friends to be with in his spare time. He once had a friend. They shared interest in online gaming. Joe who was very passionate about the game called his friend day and night, when he got a new idea for the game. At some point the friendship broke and Joe has not had a friend since.
Joe needs training in being with friends in such a way, to avoid friends being overloaded and thereby growing tired of him.
He also needs training in approaching others who do not share his few interests.