Moving right along

I am going to include on here the last two weeks since I did not post last week.

Two weeks ago was a pretty quiet week. I was in the office working with the kids in the day program the three days I was there. That consists of, if I havent said it before, mainly working with the kids in groups and working with them as they work on an educational software that helps catch them up to where they need to be educationally for when they enter back in to the school system. The groups was pretty good. We continue to talk about building coping skills so that there actions and reactions can be better when dealing with peers and family members.

This past week was a really good learning experience for me. I sat in with one of the counselors that work with the kids one on one. I sat in on first client on Monday night. It was interesting to see how the counselor interacted with the client, because he was not very interactive with the counselor. As she talked with the client, he was picking at his fingers and not seeming like he cared to talk with her. Again, this goes back to my point of real life being different than role playing in class. In class everyone is hyper and happy to be there.....just an interesting observation......

On Tuesday I sat in on another client session and learned about my emotions...haha....the client was talking how he missed his biological father and that he wanted to spend time with him. I belive the client is like 7 or 8. He was REALLY sad about it, and it almost brought me to tears.....working with fathers is one place I feel I am pretty passionate about when I graduate from school, so this a subject that hit home.

I am continually working on my learning plan and am on track to complete it in the next couple of weeks......

Hours this week: 18:30
Hours total: 151