Rosie G. - South House

Topic: Child Psychology

EQ: What is the best way to counsel middle school students

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Independent Component 2

Literal
(a)  I, Rosie Garcia, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
(b) I was part of Mr. Mays staff. I helped him buy taking care of the kids and if they needed someone to talk to I was more then glad to help them.
Interpretive
This was helpful/ helped me answer my EQ because per-teens were sowing that they were beginning to get influenced by peer pressure or the fact that they wont be "cool". They end up making their decisions based on what others might think.
Applied
This 12yr old girl was getting bullied about her weight. Her self-esteem began to worsen and that fact that she had few friends effected her. Her mom noticed something wrong with her as soon as she started trying to lose weight and they was she dressed started changing. I saw how her "friends" would tell her rude and unappropriated things. So I tried getting their attention to let them know it's not okay.

Friday, April 13, 2012

Answer 3

Eq: What is the best way to become a successful middle school counselor?

Answer 3: Know the different types of diagnoses in order to successfully help the teen through their problems.

Resources:
-third interview Mrs. Monica explained how psychologest should know the different types of diagnoses. What if I get someone with depression nut I see it as stress because I had no clue what the differences where. If I don't know what the differences are it can lead to them maybe even committing suicide.
- online class courses explaining all the different types of diagnoses
-why gender matters explains how male and females differ but you need to see how they are different. Girls are more communicative so you will then have to read their body language, how they act ( symptoms ) to help them. How can you help them if you have no idea what symptoms belong to which diagnoses.

Monday, April 9, 2012

Room Creativity

1) How do you plan to address the room creativity expectation?

I'm still not exactly sure what I will do, but I was thinking to probably put posters up. There's going to be some different diagnoses. And others with stories of what the child has gone through and explaining what they're symptoms are.

(2) What activity ideas do you have for answer 1 or 2?

One of my answers is: Understanding the different types of diagnoses in order to successfully help the student/ child. So when I'm done explaining some during the presentation they will be set up into groups of 4-5. Each group go to an assigned poster. They will read the story on the poster and depending on what they agree on they will put a number on the corresponding diagnoses. Who ever has the most right gets a price

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Independent Component 2 Plan Approval

  1. On Fridays ( a.k.a Fun Fridays) , Think Together has a every Friday event in which the kids get to play catch, have dance lessons, movie, and have a treat. So i asked Miss. Patel If one of these Fridays i can do an activity with them. I was planning on making a story in which Polly has to cross a river. She has chicken, a fox, and a bag of grain. She has to cross the river to get back to the farm but she can only take one item at a time because the boat is only big enough for two. 
  2. then i will say that if you leave the chicken and the fox together, the fox will then eat the chicken. and if you leave the chicken with the grain the chicken will then eat all the grain. Help Polly get them across the river safely. I will put them in groups. They discuss the possible answers. When they are done i will see what the answers are and from there I will see what the state of mind of the kid is.I will take me a bit of time to creat the book a size were everyone can see and the characters as well. I have from now to the 29th to work on it. From there I will then have one group out of 5 groups every 30 minutes.
  3. This relates to my EQ because a big part of being a counselor/ Psychologist is to figure out if the children are going through something. Sometimes the child lies and we can't really prove its right or wrong. So a way they try to see if its wrong right they sometimes do test like these.


WE AGREED ON JUST COMPLETING 120 HR.