Client Perspective Of Counseling At Nathaniel Bowditch

Sharing a one bedroom apartment with eight other people is not a placid experience according to Jairo Gomez. Jairo and his family have spent their whole life growing up in poverty in the midst of New York City. According to the government the Family is fifteen thousand dollars under the poverty line. The Gomez’s mother is a cleaning lady who works all day followed by coming home and cleaning her own house and taking care of her children. Jairo’s mother asks Jairo to constantly stay home from school and watch his younger siblings or to babysit after school. This limits Jairo’s time hanging out with friends, work, and completing school work. Since Jairo has never had freedom he often cut class to hang out with friends. Soon enough Jairo realizes that him playing hooky on school and staying home to babysit is damaging his chance to graduate from school and become successful later in life after he enrolled in the tenth grade for the second time. Jairo finally realized he needed to take initiative and change his ways. He did not want to

The philosophy that underlies the counseling profession is unique among mental health professionals. According to Remley & Herlihy (2014), the philosophy is made up of four components. First, counselor 's view mental health challenges through a positive, wellness-oriented lens. The primary goal of the wellness model is for the client to achieve the highest degree of mental health possible. Psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers follow the medical model of mental health. The goal of these clinicians is to cure the client’s illness, which differs drastically from counselor’s view of clients.

My pursuit of becoming a School Counselor led me to apply to the School Counseling Master’s Program at University of Maryland, College Park. I am a former student at University of Maryland with a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education. After graduating and teaching for two years in Prince George’s County Public Schools, I discovered my true passion lies not only in the classroom and students’ academics, but playing a pivotal role in the growth of their career, social, and personal development. Although I am no longer teaching full-time at the moment, my interaction with students from diverse backgrounds left an indelible responsibility to continue making a difference in our students. The objectives and mission of the School Counseling Master’s Program at University of Maryland can best help my goal of becoming an effective counselor and leader who is an agent of change to students and service the mental and emotional well-being of the younger generation.

Elizabeth loved her parents dearly and showed great compassion and care for them all throughout her life. Her parents on the other hand, may have loved her, but they were not fully capable of taking care of her and her sister the way they needed to be taken care of. Instead, Liz was left tending to and watching over her own parents, especially her mother. As a child this was acceptable for Liz because she always wanted to be involved in her parents life and had a great need to be needed by them. However, the lifestyle she was brought up in due to her parents’ condition hindered Liz from receiving all possible opportunities when it came to her education. Liz’ parents were rarely in their right mind to consistently reinforce the importance of school or necessitate attendance and performance. They were incapable of being role model parents or anything close and as a result the usefulness of school was not strongly present to Liz. Furthermore, whenever Liz did attend school it was majority filled with bad experiences. Any money that came in contact with her parents were spent on cocaine instead of food, plumbing, clothes or anything else essential. Liz was bullied for being unkempt, smelly and overall… Living in poverty with

Through my work in counseling, I will aspire to be respectful of and sensitive to my client’s developmental needs and therapeutic goals. It is imperative for counselors to recognize that the counseling process can be intimidating for many clients. I will draw from a variety of

It is my goal to become a school counselor in a local high school. As a school counselor, it is also important to try and understand the different experiences that children go through in order to get through to them. After studying the different counseling theories, I have discovered that each theory is valid and there are ideas and techniques that I would use out of each of them. However, there are some theories more than others that I would use to guide me daily as a school counselor. Modern day counseling is equipped with a wide variety of therapies, techniques and approaches. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast three approaches of therapy. Also in this essay the views of the person and the Therapeutic process will be

Following the interview conducted with a school psychologist, I was able to obtain a sense of Mrs. Montgomery’s basis for her practice, including her target clients, assumptions and values, goals and various roles of consultation, counseling, intervention and program evaluation (Sandoval, 1986). Mrs. Montgomery may be characterized as a school psychologist who places particular emphasis on the need to improve the student and systems’ capability.

For my informational interview I interviewed Hasty Elementary School Counselor Candace Thurman. Mrs. Thurman earned her B.A. in Psychology from Salem College and a MA Ed.S in Mental Health Counseling from Gardner Webb University. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed School Counselor. Her maternal grandfather suffered from mental illness and was homeless. Seeing the impact his condition had on him as well as her family compelled her to choose a career in mental health. Mrs. Thurman worked in the middle school setting for 11 years. This year is her first year in an elementary school.

The agency I have chosen to volunteer my time at this semester is Nathaniel Bowditch Elementary, which is a part of the Salem Public School district. Nathaniel Bowditch is located at 79 Willson Street, Salem Massachusetts. This school provides education to students from kindergarten to eighth grade. Within this school, I am currently volunteering my time with Rebekah Prescott. Rebekah is the school adjustment counselor for students in kindergarten through fourth grade, a caseload of about three hundred students. The goal of this paper is to describe in detail the Nathaniel Bowditch School including the agency’s history, mission, organization, the services being provided, qualifications for these servers,

Jenna far away from her home in Boston in a hospital,sees these videos of her being a perfect goddaughter student,excellent ballerina. She cant seem to figure out how that “Jenna” is her. Everybody depending on her but now she depending on others is a constant struggle. She constantly asks her parents but they always change the subject. It seems that the

Her brother is adored in the household because he is a man and will carry on the family name. Sara’s older sister is a straight A student graduating high school this year and attending Harvard as an attorney on a scholarship. Sara is constantly being compared to her sister due to her sister’s achievements. Sara is tasked with the responsibility of achieving the same or a higher level of academic success as her sister while also being neglected in her brother’s shadow. Sara’s parents are very strict and do not allow her to participate in any activities outside of academics or

Will has loving family with two brothers, 1 sister, two parents and three dogs. His older brother is going through collage and has been in the military for a while and he is trying to get a degree in engineering. Will’s twin brother is going through middle school the same way William is he and his brother play together all the time Will’s brother is very creative whether it be making cardboard constructs to building new things with Legos Will’s brother is also learning how to play the drums. Will’s only sister is older then Will and is learning in the medical area like Will’s parents who both have medical degrees she has been in the military as well as the rest of the family who were old enough to join the

Marie recently graduated high school and in the fall will be leaving to attend a university, her brother, Dan, is younger than her by three years and has just finished his freshman year of high school. Over the course of the summer months Marie has been busy preparing herself for her first semester in college, while her parents have been scrambling to make sure she makes the adjustment smoothly into college. On the other hand, Dan has spent the majority of his summer working at the local supermarket, playing video games, and hanging out at the pool. In the times between, Dan tries to spend time with his family and sister, but feels like his parents don’t spend any time with him; Marie feels, however, that when she doesn’t

Karlie is thirteen years old and is an eighth grader at Maple River Middle school in Mapleton, Minnesota. Her birthday is July 31st. She is the oldest in her family. She has one younger sister, Leah, who is in fifth grade. Karlie’s parents are married. Karlie’s mother never attended college nor did Karlie’s dad. Nevertheless, they are both successful in their current careers. Karlie’s mother works at CVS as a Pharmacist Technician and Karlie’s father is a metal worker fabricator. Before Karlie started school, her mother stayed with her full-time. Therefore, she never went to daycare or interact a lot with other kids until she was in preschool.

Even though my friends have great personalities, they have different home lives. Taylor lives with her mother, stepfather, grandmother, and two brothers. Life at home is usually dreadful for her because she is always arguing with her mom or her brothers are disrespecting her privacy. She may have a mother and father who love her, but the questioning of their love is what gets to her. She is enormously closer to her mother, despite the fact that her mother has never agreed with Taylor’s decisions, and Taylor deals with the absence of her father, which affects her everyday life. Taylors’s father chose to pick many things before her, but it never occurred to him that he makes her feel like his second choice with everything. His choices have sent him to a place that keeps him away from his