EXISTENTIAL
James (18) was one of our few self-referred clients that have come through the program. His mother called our admissions team and reported that James was suffering from depression since his father had passed away last year. James and his father had a very distant relationship anyway and spent very little time together since his parents separated when he was 8. James wanted to attend the program after seeing an episode of ‘Brat Camp’ saying that he would find it beneficial as long as the program was not a boot camp.
James was positive and a big thinker during the program. He wanted to hike very far distances in the beginning so that he could get back into shape as he is a black belt in karate but has not attended training for over a year. After a long hike James was frustrated with the program leaders saying they were
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He mentioned that his sister and mother were to blame for most problems since they made him feel like he couldn’t live in his own house.
The program leaders connected with James’ large scale thinking but worried that he missed the smaller picture at times. During a day hike up a mountain three wedge-tail eagles flew over the group causing the group to stop and gasp in wonder. James huffed and said, “Oh what’s the point?!”
As the trip continued, James began to further connect with the program leaders and asked about the things he could do at home to help bring in the peace. James was a gifted storyteller and enjoyed writing about how he sees the world a bit differently than those around him. He asked about meditation as a spiritual practice and said that he wanted to feel more centred and less burdened by the scale of everything in his life. This was especially important to him as he prepared to begin a psychology degree at university.
EXISTENTIAL EXPERIMENTS
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It was his mother he turned to when he had problems with a roommate. It was his
His decisions were influenced through his life at home, his parents were always fighting and him and his sister would constantly take abuse from their father. “ They are just totally beyond hope and there is no way to ever bring them back into reality, over twenty years of lies and meaningless games has reduced them into a state of
I had the opportunity on Friday, February 10th, 2017 to visit with Samantha Sanchez, a professional from the Kansas Children’s Service League regarding their Oasis program. The Oasis program works to serve youth, ages 10-17, that are either at risk for running away or have already run away from home. Sanchez is a case manager through KCSL and works with families and youth to prevent run-aways and build strong families. Before working at KCSL, Samantha completed a degree in psychology and had every intention of working in the field of family and children psychology. While applying for jobs after graduation, her application landed on Amber’s, her current supervisor’s, desk. Although it was not her original intended career, Samantha assured me that KCSL’s Oasis program is her home.
The main location an all-girls Christian Camp Resort in Pocono’s Pennsylvania, early spring, 60-degree temperature. Spacious cabin with a fireplace, two queen beds; nightstand, reading lamps, two rustic dark brown outlaw leather chairs, and ottoman; dark maple wood study desk, two Contemporary English Bibles and study materials. The landscape, mountain pink creeping phlox and fantastic trout lily, Virginia bluebells in shades of pink, blue purple, and white cover the winter barren ground and bees and butterflies hover in mid stillness extracting nectar from the flowers. Kizzy’s eight and Diamond seven; Kizzy suspicious of unfamiliar people. The two become friends after Diamond catches a snake hid under the kitchen cabinet sink. Kizzy feels
We have a little one in Kinder who qualifies for support in the general ed classroom. I need Katie to work 1-1 with this kiddo until we can get a grip on his behavioral needs.
During both Smart Meter Program and Emergency Base Camp Program the budget responsibilities were assigned under my responsibility. Paul Nielsen was my reporting IT Director which sponsored the Emergency Base Camp Program. Tim Cottongin was the Smart Meter Director and sponsor of the Smart Meter Program. In both cases S1 and S2 funding details were developed and forwarded for inclusion into the enterprise budget. During the development of the Base Camp Program a business case was developed and proved by the IT budgetary group. Specific details of the strategy was developed and illustrated in a PowerPoint slides presentation. The presentation was illustrated during the senior leadership funding approval session of project being with budgets of
In the summer of 2016, I was chosen to be a camp counselor for the Muscular Dystrophy Association in Birmingham, AL. The camp was from June 29, 2016 to July 1, 2016. It was at Camp ASCCA in Alex CIty. In order to be selected, there was a lot of paperwork and interviews to be done. Each person selected to be a counselor was assigned to one child who suffered from a variety of muscular problems. Our job was to have our child to their designated activities on time, wake them up, get them dressed, and make sure they stayed fed and hydrated. The child I was assigned to could walk but she got extremely tired at times so, she wanted to use her wheelchair. The camp gave the children many opportunities to do things that they normally would not be allowed
The program failed to use the risk principle and look at multiple dynamic risk factors that would affect the youth. With limited use of the risk principle, it would have been difficult for the program to have success with the need principle, but the program did have some success. At the boot camp the main focus seemed to be the youth’s attitude, values favorable to the law, and providing schooling were taken into account. The aftercare program that followed tried to provide community treatment for drugs and alcohol and provide good sources for leisure time, prosocial peers, attitudes and skills associated with both school and work, and relapse prevention. Both the boot camp and the aftercare program did reassess the youth while the youth was in their care and make adjustments to treatment if needed. The aftercare program seemed to be the biggest fault of this due to a lack of implication and the biggest endeavor being reintegration into the school system. The Cleveland program failed to have any focus on self-control, self-management, problem solving skills, family affection, and family
Boy Scout Mitchell Daneker of East Lampeter Township has joined some select company. A junior at Conestoga Valley High School and a member of Eden-based Boy Scout Troop 83, Daneker has earned the Eagle Scout Award, the highest honor in scouting.
When I started reading the description of this program, the first word that appeared amazing to me, was “Vancouver”. At that moment, I knew that this program was going to give students something special. In addition, there are many reasons why I would like to participate in the YMCA Youth Exchange Program. Furthermore, when looking at the selection criteria, it states how this program is for students who have faced long term obstacles that have presented many challenges, which I can easily relate to. Family circumstances, was a challenge for me towards my academic success. This is because of my brother. He is the child in our family who does extremely poorly in his academic studies which involves my family to focus more on his education and
The therapist attempted to take an Existential approach with the client. The therapist aimed to make the client aware of her anxiety that she described as worry or being a
Parents with troubled teens sometimes turn to boot camps to help their children. Juvenile boot camps are styled after military training camps and are designed to instill disciple and structure in young people. It started as an alternative to jail teenagers who had committed crimes and most state run programs for these troubled teens.
By continuing to run camps and activities that take a further in depth view it may be possible to discover that changes may develop in other areas aside from just the social aspect. It is highly likely that increases in mental, emotional, and physical performance occur as well. However a trained and certified TR professional running the camp would know how to better conduct assessments and implement methods to plan an intervention in comparison to a TR intern. A major study that could come from this research is measuring the difference in social performance when the camp is completely administered by licensed TR professionals. While doing so it would also be a stupendous idea to measure all four domains and really understand which domain benefits most from a camp
The subject is a two story house built in 2009 in the Lakewood Hills subdivision in Springfield. It has brick and vinyl exterior and is a Good+20 grade home sited on 0.2932 acre lot. The owner is concerned that the subject is overvalued due to a lack of uniformity, claiming that in 2009, the subject was one of the least expensive purchases, but now it is assessed as a more expensive house. Based on this, he is requesting that the subject be valued at $901,413.
Existential psychotherapies are based on the ideas of the existential philosophy, which does not have specific technics for explaining the psychological disorders. Thus, this practice is vague, and demand the practitioner to be creative and deeply involved with the philosophy, (Langdridge, 2010, p132). The philosophy is a source of many ideas on the existence of human, and on how to manage the difficulties of life and death. It also has universal aspects, which make the core principles of the practice, such as that people are unique and ever changing beings, without fixed underlying personality or diagnoses. Also, that people have free choices, a limited and anxious existence, and are bound by the ability of their bodies and the four