Parent Interview : Family Interview

I interviewed three different family member of all different age that have experienced my family culture in their own way. For my interview I interviewed My mother Okala Mundeke. She is originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo but she moved to America when she was 35 years old and she is now 50 years old. She has grown up mostly in Congo so she has a strong knowledge of our heritage and family history since she was around it more.. My sister Emmanuella Kalonda she was born in the congo but has little memory of it since she was less than a year old when she came to america. she is currently sixteen years old. But she was raised with my mother learning about family and our culture. My next candidate is my other sister Jocelyn Fetner

I believe that, to ensure a well-run program responsive that is to participant needs, developmentally-appropriate materials are of the utmost importance. All my activities are planned for the specific age group I work with and care for. The toys provided

​Walk into any home with toddlers, and you will no doubt be able to tell whether the child is a boy or a girl by a quick peek into the playroom. Trucks, trains, planes, and baseballs will scream boy; while a room full of pink and frilly dolls and stuffed animals have little girl written all over it. Judith Elaine Blakemore, professor of psychology and associate dean of Arts and Sciences for Faculty Development at Indiana University and Jeffrey Trawick-Smith, professor at Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic, Connecticut, did a research study about the impact of specific toys on play. They found that,

work with individual families and with families as an aggregate within the population (Clark, 2003). Several areas will be presented such as biophysical, psychological, physical environmental, sociocultural, behavioral and health system considerations. The data obtained during family health assessment enable the nurse to make informed decisions about the health care needs of families (Clark).

The most important core value for this case to me is cultural competence. The National Association of Social Worker’s (NASW) describes the importance as cultural competence for a Social Worker to develop “a knowledge base of their clients’ cultures and be able to demonstrate competence in the provision of services that are sensitive to clients’ cultures and to differences among people and cultural groups” (2008). This really seems to be key to this case because the school seems to have Heterosexist values, Heterosexism is having prejudices against those that do not fill the heterosexual norm(Burn, Kadlec, & Rexer, 2005). These values tend to have effect on not only the individuals that may be homosexual, but their greater family system. Often heterosexism can increase psychosocial stress for both the family and the individual. This is extremely common and can even be done through anti-homosexual language such as the things Miranda has over heard.

They serve as a framework for clinical assessment and can be applied to the individual, family, and community. Through this framework, data is collected and assessed, allowing for the application of nursing diagnoses and interventions that encompass a holistic view of the client. There are 11 patterns, and within each pattern there are four focal areas.

You can’t force a child to learn or be physically able to play certain games which aren’t cognitively, socially/emotionally, or physically appropriate for your child’s age and/or abilities. They also have to have the language skills to communicate with you or their peers when they are learning or playing. The whole child process cannot be forced. At the same time, you can’t expect your child to flourish and learn when they aren’t encouraged. The age appropriate toys have to be available along with play and time spent playing and interacting with peers for the whole child process to be a

For the professional practice interview, I interviewed Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Joe Exnowski. He has been working with my population of interest for the past four years. He works with an array of students dealing with anxiety, depression, stress, and substance use and abuse. In addition, to working with this population across different college campuses, he also works with couples in private practice. I conducted a 15-minute interview in which we had the opportunity to explore the pros and cons about working with this specific population more in particular, in regards to alcohol use and abuse.

These toys encourage the mind to be creative and imaginative, and use the toy in more ways than simple rolling the car across the carpet. Perhaps the child will imagine the car is in a race, and will whip and weave it around furniture, jump over the family dog, and come sliding in to first place over the threshold of the door. Dynamic toys encourage elaborate thought and thus enhance brain development.

Family can be very influential in the decisions that we make whether by persuasion, support, or other means. The person I interviewed is Dr. Gutierrez, the director of the Symphony Orchestra and the Director of the Center for Latin American Music Studies at TCU. He was born in Ibague, Colombia, in 1957. He went to the Conservatorio de Música del Tolima, where he got his high school and bachelor’s degree at the same time. Then he went to Illinois State University to get his master’s degree in composition and conducting, and then to the University of Colorado to get his doctoral degree in orchestra conducting.

First, toys that are too difficult for the child to solve or understand may cause frustration. This frustration may motivate some kids to continue or cause the majority to abandon the toy. Most importantly, toys need to provide an avenue through which the child can become exposed or practice the skills in their stage of development. For kids ranging from birth to two, toys need to help them practice primary, secondary, and tertiary circular reactions, as well as goal-directed behavior and eventually object

I took the Implicit Association test, and I was not surprised by the results received. I took the Gender-Career IAT test and the result was correct. However, I do think the result have a lot to do with my environment, as well as, my living situation as a child. My test result suggests a moderate association of Male with Career and Female with Family compared to Female with Career and Male with Family. The result of my test was 24% association male with career and female with family, 32% moderate automatic association of male with career and female with family, and 0% slight automatic association of male with career and female with family.

Banerjee and Lintern (2000) examined the salience of children’s preference for toys in private and public settings. Their findings indicate that younger children hold more rigid ideas of what kinds of toys their gender should be playing with, and that children would

My family health assessment was conducted using the 11 Gordon functional health pattern. Marjorie Gordon’s functional health pattern is a guide for establishing a comprehensive nursing date base, using the 11 categories enable nurses determines the following aspects of health and human function (Gordon 1987). The Gordon 11 functional health patterns are health perception/health management, nutrition, elimination, activity/exercise, cognitive, sleep/rest, self perception/self concept, roles and relationships, sexuality and reproduction, coping and stress tolerance, values and belief. This paper will summarize the findings of each health pattern as well as the family based nursing

“ We code children’s use of the toys in the areas using a coding instrument that we have developed: thinking/ learning/ problem solving, social interaction, and creativity.”(Prof. Trawick-Smith) The research done at NAEYA says that toys for a classroom setting are very important, and should be chosen as carefully as the curriculum for the students. “ ... ninety percent of preschool