(1) What is answer 1 to your EQ? Be specific in your answer and write it like a thesis statement.
Play therapy is one of the ways to psychologically treat abused children. It allows them to express their feeling while doing something they know how to do very well, play.
(2) What possible evidence do you have to support this answer?
Since children are playing, they are in their comfort zone. Therefore, they express themselves easier, and they don't feel uncomfortable. According to the Play Therapy Association of the United States, Aristotle and Plato once reflected on the importance of play in our lives. When children feel like they are doing something that they know how to do, without thinking that it's therapy they use the toys as words to express what they are feeling which is easier, not only for the child but also for the therapists. It is easier to understand what the child is feeling.
(3) What source(s) did you find this evidence and/or answer?
http://www.a4pt.org/ps.index.cfm?ID=1653 and that is main type of therapy that my service learning place uses, so I have learned several things about play therapy.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Service Learning
1. For my service learning, I am working at Samartian Counseling Center in Upland.
2. Ruth Finnigan, is my contact.
3. Over winter break, I went in. I worked in the main office area, I inputed surveys into the computer so I saw what the clients have to say about the counseling center. I also, did things that needed to be done around the office like file things.
4. As of right now, I have a total of 33 hours.
2. Ruth Finnigan, is my contact.
3. Over winter break, I went in. I worked in the main office area, I inputed surveys into the computer so I saw what the clients have to say about the counseling center. I also, did things that needed to be done around the office like file things.
4. As of right now, I have a total of 33 hours.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Third Interview Questions
1. What is the best way to psychologically treat an abused child?
2. What are different methods of actually treating a child?
3. What are some problems that you have encountered while working with abused children?
4. Has there ever been an instance in which a child did not want to open up to you, and actually want to
talk to you? If so, how did you encounter that problem?
5. In your opinion, what is the toughest thing that you face when dealing with child abuse?
6. How do you know when a child has healed? Do they ever heal completely?
7. Do you think that the victim's family needs to undergo the same treatment as the victim?
8. In your case, has there ever been an instance in which the victim did not finish the treatment?
9. Do you ever get a feeling as if you need to help these children out of the therapy room? If so, how do you control it?
10. What is the most important thing that you believe all therapists dealing with child abuse should know? Why?
2. What are different methods of actually treating a child?
3. What are some problems that you have encountered while working with abused children?
4. Has there ever been an instance in which a child did not want to open up to you, and actually want to
talk to you? If so, how did you encounter that problem?
5. In your opinion, what is the toughest thing that you face when dealing with child abuse?
6. How do you know when a child has healed? Do they ever heal completely?
7. Do you think that the victim's family needs to undergo the same treatment as the victim?
8. In your case, has there ever been an instance in which the victim did not finish the treatment?
9. Do you ever get a feeling as if you need to help these children out of the therapy room? If so, how do you control it?
10. What is the most important thing that you believe all therapists dealing with child abuse should know? Why?
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Self Reflection
1. So far, I feel like I am doing a P job. Although on my research checks I do go above and beyond, I feel like I have only done what has been required from me with everything else.
2. One thing that I feel that I've done well is my research checks. I feel like I have really learned many things about my topic and in the long run, for my two-hour, all this information will help me.
3. One thing that I would like to improve is getting everything that I need prepared on time. For example, my second interview.
2. One thing that I feel that I've done well is my research checks. I feel like I have really learned many things about my topic and in the long run, for my two-hour, all this information will help me.
3. One thing that I would like to improve is getting everything that I need prepared on time. For example, my second interview.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Science Fair Proposal
1. If families live in a low income city, then they are more likely to be child abuse victims.
2. Dependent component is the number of abuse victims, the independent component manipulating the city's income levels, and the control would be the child abuse.
3. My EQ is what is the best way to treat a child that has been abused? For my experiment, I'm going to collect data from reported child abuse cases from different cities with different income averages, and find if income in a family has anything to do with child abuse. The way that they connect is that to treat a child you need to know where the most cases are reported, meaning that there are more children that need a therapist/psychologist in that area.
4. I will find some of my data in the Bureau of Economic Analysis, which will provide me with the different city income levels. The Bureau of Justice Statistics will provide me some of the information about the child abuse reports made and in what cities the reports were made. With this data, I will see if there is some kind of correlation between city income and the number of child abuse reports. This experiment will allow me to decide if there are certain cities that need more help with their child abuse victims.
5. This experiment would be under Behavioral Science.
2. Dependent component is the number of abuse victims, the independent component manipulating the city's income levels, and the control would be the child abuse.
3. My EQ is what is the best way to treat a child that has been abused? For my experiment, I'm going to collect data from reported child abuse cases from different cities with different income averages, and find if income in a family has anything to do with child abuse. The way that they connect is that to treat a child you need to know where the most cases are reported, meaning that there are more children that need a therapist/psychologist in that area.
4. I will find some of my data in the Bureau of Economic Analysis, which will provide me with the different city income levels. The Bureau of Justice Statistics will provide me some of the information about the child abuse reports made and in what cities the reports were made. With this data, I will see if there is some kind of correlation between city income and the number of child abuse reports. This experiment will allow me to decide if there are certain cities that need more help with their child abuse victims.
5. This experiment would be under Behavioral Science.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
What I've Learned So Far
1) What have you learned how to do since you started working on your senior project?
Since I started working on my senior project, I have learned a lot about the different types of child abuse that there are like physical, emotional, sexual and neglect. I've learned what they are, what are the requirements for these things to be considered "reportable" and some of the things that are done to punish the abuser. I have also learned about the different types of side effects that may come up like children growing up not knowing how to keep a healthy relationship with anyone, like living with guilt and stress disorders. I have also learned about how therapists and psychologists decide what kind of treatment the victim will get. For example, if they are younger children, between the ages of 4 and 13, they will most likely end up in some kind of group therapy. Another thing that I have learned is that to help someone else you first need to help yourself. So, you need to keep working on yourself and helping heal whatever "scars" you may have whenever you can.
2) Post evidence of this accomplishment.
To me, this picture represents that no matter how much research you do you will find contradicting answers, different definitions, and different ideas. The sticky notes on top of all of those other papers represent that you need to know how to manage your time because you will have lots of therapies, you also need to manage your personal schedule and anything that may come up. The very top sticky note means that therapists have a lot of decision making when it comes to children. You have to decide like whether they get group therapy or they get trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy or treatment (medicine).
3) What research helped you to do this and how?
My first interviewee, Ymasumac Maranon-Davis gave me a lot of the details about what therapists do. She have me an inside view on what she does, when she sets up therapies, when she has therapy herself and some of the decisions that she has to had made at one point or another and decisions that she has helped other people make. Another source that has helped me, A LOT, is a book called Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect by Cynthia Crosson-Tower. This book has a lot of information on what child abuse and neglect are, it also talks a lot about different treatments that may or may not be helpful in certain cases. Another thing that it talks about is how people react to abuse and what are some things that the abusers do. This is a really good book and I'm glad that I came across it, but unfortunately I haven't finished it so I don't know what the rest of the book is about, yet!
Since I started working on my senior project, I have learned a lot about the different types of child abuse that there are like physical, emotional, sexual and neglect. I've learned what they are, what are the requirements for these things to be considered "reportable" and some of the things that are done to punish the abuser. I have also learned about the different types of side effects that may come up like children growing up not knowing how to keep a healthy relationship with anyone, like living with guilt and stress disorders. I have also learned about how therapists and psychologists decide what kind of treatment the victim will get. For example, if they are younger children, between the ages of 4 and 13, they will most likely end up in some kind of group therapy. Another thing that I have learned is that to help someone else you first need to help yourself. So, you need to keep working on yourself and helping heal whatever "scars" you may have whenever you can.
2) Post evidence of this accomplishment.
3) What research helped you to do this and how?
My first interviewee, Ymasumac Maranon-Davis gave me a lot of the details about what therapists do. She have me an inside view on what she does, when she sets up therapies, when she has therapy herself and some of the decisions that she has to had made at one point or another and decisions that she has helped other people make. Another source that has helped me, A LOT, is a book called Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect by Cynthia Crosson-Tower. This book has a lot of information on what child abuse and neglect are, it also talks a lot about different treatments that may or may not be helpful in certain cases. Another thing that it talks about is how people react to abuse and what are some things that the abusers do. This is a really good book and I'm glad that I came across it, but unfortunately I haven't finished it so I don't know what the rest of the book is about, yet!
Monday, October 17, 2011
Independent Component 1 Plan Approval
1) For my independent component, I plan on working with someone I know who is starting a therapy and healing group for teens due to things that happened in their childhoods and I am thinking about helping her with that.
2) I think that this plan will meet the 30 hour minimum requirement because the class is scheduled to be from 6-8pm every Monday, maybe even more. With the classes themselves I get at least two hours per week but then we would still have to make the plans for what is going to happen and that is another two hours roughly. That would be at least four hours weekly, in eight weeks I should be done!
3) My EQ is: what is the best way to treat a child that has been abused? Therapy groups are one way of treating abuse. With this as my independent component, I will see and have a first-hand view on what a group therapy is like and in the end I will know if it works or not.
2) I think that this plan will meet the 30 hour minimum requirement because the class is scheduled to be from 6-8pm every Monday, maybe even more. With the classes themselves I get at least two hours per week but then we would still have to make the plans for what is going to happen and that is another two hours roughly. That would be at least four hours weekly, in eight weeks I should be done!
3) My EQ is: what is the best way to treat a child that has been abused? Therapy groups are one way of treating abuse. With this as my independent component, I will see and have a first-hand view on what a group therapy is like and in the end I will know if it works or not.
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