The Counseling Services 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

He actually worsen the strain on his mother, and she regretfully has to push him away. Joe’s mother says to Joe, “Now you listen to me, Joe. You will not badger me or harass me. You will leave me to think the way I want to think, here” (89). These mutual hardships creates a stronger bond between Joe and his family and allows the family members to support each other in this hard time. Through this experience, Joe learns how to deal with people in need and have empathy for those around him. Living with a family develops the social skills to exist in the outside world. Joe’s parents provide the familial love and support that is necessary for Joe to mature into a responsible adult.

Initially, the Joad's focus is on their own immediate family and their struggle to stay together. The

In order to provide a comprehensive school counseling program (CSCP) that meets the unique needs of Ocean Elementary School, the school counselor must understand the needs of the school. Therefore, conducting a needs assessment can help a new school counselor to evaluate the CSCP in order to plan, implement, and improve the effectiveness of the program (Astramovich & Coker, 2007). Additionally, utilizing the accountability bridge counseling program evaluation model, a continuous evaluation cycle helps to improve services based on stakeholder feedback, the needs of those served, and outcomes (Astramovich & Coker, 2007). Within this model, a needs assessment must be conducted in order to plan and develop services that address the needs of the students (Astramovich & Coker, 2007). Thus, by utilizing assessment questionnaires, the school counselor can gather information from the diverse population of students, parents, teachers, and administrator to determine how the CSCP can best support all students’ needs (American School Counselor Association [ASCA], 2012). Additionally, the use of other data, such as observations, standardized test scores, absentee rates, and student referrals can support the feedback received on the questionnaires. Based on the data, the school counselor can evaluate the school counseling program in order to improve the program in the domain areas of academic, social/emotional, and career development. Thus, within the accountability bridge counseling

Firstly, Jess has no friends and she believes that everyone leaves her because she “pisses” them off. Explaining to readers the reason for her loneliness, Jess states that maybe “she pissed Jen off” and “she disappeared, like everyone else” (8). This clearly shows that Jess is lonely and has no one in her life. She feels guilty and thinks that she is responsible for the disappearance of everyone from her life. After her sister Jen left, Jess was greatly affected and became very lonely. Also, Jess has no support from her parents. She shares a bad relation with her parents and believes that they do not love her. While telling readers about her relationship with her parents, Jess reveals that after Jen left, her mom gave up on her (185). From this, it can be seen that Jess did not get the support she should have got from her parents after the tragedy of losing her sister. Jess’s family does not spend time together and they hate each other. To add to that, Jess seems to be suffering from what is known as “sibling rivalry”. A proof of this is when Jess poses readers the question, “But parents must have favorite kids, right?”, and explains how Jen was the perfect child who did everything her parents liked whereas she is the complete opposite. Given this point, it can be said that Jess feels her sister

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.

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.

Family support is essential to have a good life. When Dally, Pony, and Johnny were at the Dairy Queen Johnny asked Dally. “‘My parents’ Johnny repeated doggedly, ‘did they ask about me?’ ‘No,’ snapped Dally… Johnny didn’t say anything. But he stared at the dashboard with such hurt bewilderment

Jayla reported that she feels safe in the home with Bmo. VC also reported that nothing makes her sad in the home.

Being raised by a single mother, Taya was exposed to the reality of financial and emotional hardships at a young age. Although paternal abandonment might have shaken most, Taya's mom never let neither her nor her sister be self-pitying. Rather, they were always taught to embrace what they did have: a selfless mother, devoted grandparents, and a generous

There are many factors affect our health such as income, living condition, environment, education, genetic, relationships with family and friends and supporting a child (World Health Organization, 2013). In them, many factors affect our health that which is call determination of health. In this essay, I am going to discuss Riley, J. 's family determination of health which negatively affects the family and need to be solved. Jessica Riley is a seventeen years old single mother who is living with her infant Ryan, and boyfriend Casey. Casey is not the biological father of Ryan. Jessica is working as a waitress and studying Cosmology. She has to leave her study due to her pregnancy. Casey doesn’t have a constant job as well as he is alcoholic and does drugs on a regular basis. Ryan is an infant who born as a healthy child. Jessica doesn’t have time to take care of Ryan. Jessica’s mother Evelyn and other people take care of Ryan when Jessica is at work (Canadian neighborhood, 2013). As I navigate there are many factors affect Jessica’s family, but I am going to discuss three most important determination of health which are income, substance abuse and child development how they affect negatively Jessica’s family.

Bentley’s mother, Melika Vasquez is a 35-year-old fiancée, sister, aunt, head of household, friend, and student. She is a full time NYC employee working for the NYC Department of Education as a community advisor. Her role as a CA enables her to work with high school students, various staff members, and the community. Melika is also pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in sociology; she plans to obtain a Master’s Degree in Psychology so she can eventually become a school counselor. Melika exhibits a tremendous amount of resilience as she is still mourning the death of her mother