Jennifer Kortge is a School Social Worker for a special education consortium of three different school districts in Lapeer County, in Michigan. The three school districts she services include Imlay City, Dryden, and Almont community schools. As a School Social Worker for a special education consortium Jennifer is required to provide special education social work services for students that are experiencing social, emotional, or behavioral issues. During the interview Jennifer mentioned that she works with students receiving support in various programs, including the consortium emotional impairment program, cognitive impairment program, early childhood program, and resource programs. The students Jennifer works with is a wide age range of…
LoCa's notes When DI arrived to session, Lomax was playing in his backyard on the trampoline with siblings. Lomax did an amazing job fixing his bed. DI and Lomax read social stories about using nice words when he is talking to a friend, family or a teacher. Lomax and DI talk about what he can said when his sister is eating something that he doesn't like such as egg and soda. During play time, Lomax's dad, mom, sister, case supervisor and DI play with Lomax.…
Robert required verbal prompting, and redirection to participate in the session. Robert was allowed small breaks and refocusing to keep him engaged in the activity. Robert is making gradual progress toward his goals. Robert continues to have difficult time keep focus on task and has to be redirected and encouraged to help with complete given task. Robert stated, his mom yelling, being punished, losing privileges and being teased about how he looks.…
Concerns of the Parent: One of the concerns of Ricco’s mother, is that his behavior will prevent the realizations of his true talent and ability. Ricco now has a computer at home, however there is still a challenge of internet accessibility. Communication Style / Learning Style: As noted in 2015, Ricco continues to display a “kinesthetic” learning style preference. He excels when given a single-task focus while utilizing a hands on approach to meet the needs of spatial-kinesthetic learning, and physical aggression. Social Relationships: Ricco has the ability to be respectful, cooperative and socially appropriate with peers and authority figures.…
8. What is your least favorite subject? This question will tell Ann what areas may be a concern for Hallie. This may be grade-wise or just simply a dislike for the subject in general.…
The final participant is 45-year-old Renee. Renee is a Pharmacist who is the mother of her only child, Patrick. Biologically, Renee is a Caucasian female of average weight. Cognitively, Renee is extremely intelligent. She graduated top of her class in high school and college.…
Client Thelma will be visiting the office today for continued therapy. The session will be held in the New York office instead of the New Jersey office. Thelma used to live in New Jersey and the city has become a huge trigger for her. Thelma is a 48-year old African American and Hispanic woman who has never been married. She identifies as a heterosexual female but struggles with her gender and identity.…
Foster parent report before the visit: The youth had a good week overall. Alex had a small tantrum when asked questions. The youth and I went to the book store to discuss his current behaviors and ways to decease his tantrums. They youth read two books and discussed them. I explained to the youth behavior expectations and answer questions.…
The material use in this session was a passage “A Dodgy Call”, paper, pencils and a writing checklist. Activity was to read the passage out loud and discuss the vocabulary used on the text. Clinician gives the opportunity to each student to read a paragraph of the text and also involving the clients in decision making throughout the session. After finding the words they didn’t know the meaning, the clinician model a sentence with each one of the words. After that, clinician asked the student to write a sentence on their own.…
The Late Paper I. Rank the characters, Professor Freud, Kim, Arnold, Cindy, Phillip, and Mary from one to six in the order you feel they deserve blame/responsibility for the outcome. Number 1 would be the most responsible, and Number 6 would be the least responsible. Explain and defend your rankings. 1. KIM…
She did this by asking, guiding, and answering questions between the other team members and parents of Dominic. The special education teacher was poise and well prepared for the meeting and had exhibited prior knowledge about the student who the meeting was focused on. There was also a scribe amongst the team. Her role was to take notes during the meeting and to update forms relating…
My activities for next week at my agency are completing a Family Needs Assessment and practice with one of my colleagues, on how to fill out a family intake with a client. I will prepare for this by first knowing my clients name, child's name and purpose of them being here. Since I already know how to do a Family Needs Assessment I wouldn’t worry much about it. As for the intake, I will prepare myself by making sure I listen to how my colleague helps the client out. I will observe how she helps fill out the forms carefully.…
When I first read the title of the movie, I did not think that it was going to be about Alzheimer disease. “Still Alice” appears to be a positive movie title. Consequently, I thought that the movie would be based on something positive. While I watched the movie, I learned that the character is facing the hardship of a rare disease (familial Alzheimer’s disease). The biggest question if whether the character is still Alice because of the changes that she is going through with her disease.…
Janet reports they have their first session later next week. I believe that Janet would perhaps have come to the concept of parent counselling herself. I let the friend side of myself take over momentarily. In the future I will be more than aware of the need not to suggest or goal set for the client, it is their healing journey and not…
As the day goes on Mrs. Meredith has numerous tasks for me to do. She asks me to make copies, file papers in children’s take home folders, and help the kids with any questions they have while Mrs. Meredith is in her small groups. The students are very eager to learn, overall she has a very positive classroom environment. Reflection…