Area of Focus Statement The purpose of this study is to see if clients’ ages five to seventeen years old with a mental health diagnosis will open up and communicate better in sessions if they are allowed to use technology during sessions. Technology will replace games and activities that were used previously in sessions when working with the children. The clients’ in this plan are receiving services to better cope and control their mental health diagnosis.
Problem - Interest
Children with a mental health diagnosis tend to have trust issues, poor communication, and are closed off. It is hard to get the children to communicate about feelings and deeper problems when in sessions. Some of the children will talk about what they did over …show more content…
The organization I work for has been working with children with mental health issues for many years and has seen the rise in numbers and complexity of the issues per child rise as well. With the numbers rising and the diagnosis’s becoming more extremely the communication problem is rising and becoming more prominent. Many of the children we work with also have a trauma history of some sort of abuse or rape. Communication is a key factor in treatment and getting the children to overcome their diagnosis and to be able to be an active member in their community. Without communication we struggle to get the child to develop and to overcome issues that have risen from their diagnosis. Many children who are faced with mental health problems end up being institutionalized and the goal of the organization I work for is to help the child to become a healthy active member of their community and to avoid being institutionalized. With that being the goal it is important to figure out a way to get the children we work for to communicate and open up about the deep problems they are facing that we do not know. The majority of the intake information and overview of the children we get are from their parents, school, church or etc. With that being said it is important to find out what the child feels is the true deeper problem in their life. As …show more content…
I have chosen the participants based off of diagnosis, gender, and amount of time they have been in services. By choosing the participants by the three standards I have chosen it helps to ensure balance in the research plan. If I would have just chosen females or just males for the action research plan then it would not be a fair outcome. If the plan was completed by using only females and it was successful then we do not know if it will be successful with males in real practice. This goes for vice versa if I was to only use males in the plan. If I chose all participants with the same diagnosis and the plan was not successful does that mean children with other diagnosis will not be successful with technology in their sessions? It is important to have a good mixture and balance when choosing participants to ensure you are not being biases or causing your plan to get false results. In the career I work with males, females, all ages, and all different diagnosis’s and I feel it is important to know that technology is going to be helpful with all of them not just a certain
Problem - Interest
Children with a mental health diagnosis tend to have trust issues, poor communication, and are closed off. It is hard to get the children to communicate about feelings and deeper problems when in sessions. Some of the children will talk about what they did over …show more content…
The organization I work for has been working with children with mental health issues for many years and has seen the rise in numbers and complexity of the issues per child rise as well. With the numbers rising and the diagnosis’s becoming more extremely the communication problem is rising and becoming more prominent. Many of the children we work with also have a trauma history of some sort of abuse or rape. Communication is a key factor in treatment and getting the children to overcome their diagnosis and to be able to be an active member in their community. Without communication we struggle to get the child to develop and to overcome issues that have risen from their diagnosis. Many children who are faced with mental health problems end up being institutionalized and the goal of the organization I work for is to help the child to become a healthy active member of their community and to avoid being institutionalized. With that being the goal it is important to figure out a way to get the children we work for to communicate and open up about the deep problems they are facing that we do not know. The majority of the intake information and overview of the children we get are from their parents, school, church or etc. With that being said it is important to find out what the child feels is the true deeper problem in their life. As …show more content…
I have chosen the participants based off of diagnosis, gender, and amount of time they have been in services. By choosing the participants by the three standards I have chosen it helps to ensure balance in the research plan. If I would have just chosen females or just males for the action research plan then it would not be a fair outcome. If the plan was completed by using only females and it was successful then we do not know if it will be successful with males in real practice. This goes for vice versa if I was to only use males in the plan. If I chose all participants with the same diagnosis and the plan was not successful does that mean children with other diagnosis will not be successful with technology in their sessions? It is important to have a good mixture and balance when choosing participants to ensure you are not being biases or causing your plan to get false results. In the career I work with males, females, all ages, and all different diagnosis’s and I feel it is important to know that technology is going to be helpful with all of them not just a certain