As I was observing the relationship between the client and his daughter, it made me recall feelings of my relationship with my father. I found myself creating biases to form connections. Through this experience, I realized that I need to learn specific language skills for counselling in Punjabi as well as learn ways of appropriately showing an understanding without the focus on self-involvement. I also found learning about PTSD in older adults and the effective interventions used, such as CBT very useful for future practices. It is important for workers to acknowledge beliefs and to be sensitive to age-specific issues (Clapp & Beck, 2012).…
“Dad, time for dinner.” and there is silence only, no reply. And then my father comes out from his room and grabs a. plate and goes back to his room with a gloomy look. When I was twelve years old, my father didn’t talk to the entire family and avoided us for one year.…
Growing up with my mom was beyond great my mom always made sure I had everything I needed. I was always dressed in name brand clothes and my hair was always done in the cutest styles. She made sure I went to the best schools. She did everything a good mom was supposed to do. Then I got to the ages of 12,13 and 14 that's when things took a turn for the worst.…
Waking up every morning wishing for a good morning kiss from my father just like the novelas on T.V was everything I always wanted. I was only six years old and had grown up not knowing who my father was. Unlike other kids at my school who always talked about their father playing with them, I was not able to talk about my dad. Celebrating birthdays and wishing my father was there to sing or even blow the candle with me was just a fantasy in my mind. I was young girl growing up a bit bitter because I thought life was not how a little girl would imagine.…
Imagine knowing your mother for the first time at the age of 16 years. This is my story, by far the hardest to share. My mother left me for my father when I was quite young, in fact I don’t know her at all but I do know her name. It all happened back in Africa, I was born in Nigeria by unknown mother, I mean that I don’t know whom she’s.…
Dad for a Hero Imagine you have a family member that is very sick. That makes you sad, right? Now imagine having a family member that is chronically ill. Now you’re probably upset.…
what’s up dad? Nothing much and you? same. What are you doing? Nothing,but on they way to Chicago.…
I Asked For Advice From Parents After two days, the kids got a little more comfortable with me and they started doing their own thing - like leaving their dishes everywhere, eating a bunch of crap, and playing their music as loud as they could. That 's when I knew that I needed to be the adult in the house and make sure they didn 't get away with anything that they shouldn 't. I sent out a request for some advice, and I got some that helped me become the person in charge that I needed to be. The first bit of advice I got was from Phil: Talk with them.…
Two weeks prior to my 45th birthday, my 21 year old daughter, Jacqueline, asked me to pick her up at her boyfriend's house because she said she wanted to talk to me. I could sense in her voice something might be troubling her by the nervous cracking in her voice and it was rather unusual for her to actually want to talk to me alone because for the last three years it seemed she confided in her mother more than anyone else, which is I assume is typical in most father/daughter relationships as they mature from a child into a young woman. Jacqueline and I had a terrific relationship up until high school, when boys started coming into the picture which caused me to be more protective of who she was with and where she went. So, from her senior year in high school until very recently she had almost exclusively sought her mother's advice on relationships and everything that a young woman might need to know. So, on this particular Thursday evening in November, I pulled up in…
February 1, 2009, I kept tossing and turning in bed anxious for the day to be here already. I had a weird feeling that my father was not going to appear to court. But although I had that feeling I knew in my heart that my stepfather Fred Titus was willing to do anything to win my brother, Brian and me over. I was scared, excited, anxious, nervous and all the above. Since this was my first time going to court with my mom and my brother I didn’t know what to expect.…
I will the first to graduate from college by the end of this school year. I don’t blame my father for any bad parenting because when he was three years old his father died. Therefore, growing up I learn to appreciate what my father has done for me because my father did not abandon my mother and me. Instead my father read a lot of books and some of them where about parenting. When my parents came to the USA at the age 19 they both read a lot books to educate themselves and learn how to prosper in…
My father strives to push me to achieve well in anything that I decide to do. High school was a struggle for me, but my dad…
My father understood my worries, so he lead out options about attending a community college first then transfer to a university. I felt relieved, but my father proved that he’ll never forsake me. Regardless of the situation to vent to someone who’s willing to listen and share their honest thought could leave the greatest impact in your life. Whenever I express my problems with classes I’m struggling in he’ll tell me, “it’s okay to fail if you know you did your best, but it’s not okay if you don’t try your best”. It didn’t make sense to me until I deeply thought about it.…
My Fathers illness has equally effected all of my siblings and I significantly. It is most difficult hearing stories from my family members about my father before he became ill and depressed. He was often considered the center of each conversation. It is difficult to type these words about my father considering that the last time my father and I have shared a laugh is beyond my memory. My mom always tells me that I am very similar to my father in terms of his stubbornness and positivity.…
I was born in Yuma, Arizona but I was raised in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora because of my parents. I was studying there, until my parents took the decision of sending my 3 siblings and me to study in the United States. This is my 5th year in this country and although it has been a little bit challenging, I have faced all kind of barriers such as learning the second language, here I am studying my first year of college. In my family we are 7 members: 2 older brothers, 2 younger sisters, both of my parents and me, but my parents are divorced and my older brother (first child of my parents) died right after he was born. His name was Jesus and I like to mention him because I feel that including him, even when he is not with us physically, makes my family complete.…