Awilda Pedraza, bilingual mother of two, has been in her field of counseling for many years now. She is a Penn State and Kutztown student who is know working in the mental health care. Working since 1997 she has learned many new important tactics and ways to living the life she owns today. Pedraza states, “Work is a way to provide for my family and a place to help influence others.” Her typical day at the job is giving her clients the advice they need to make it in their everyday life day, but Awilda does more than talk to her patients. She has gone far enough to even help a mother therapeutically meet the requirements for Children 's Services and regain custody of her children. Awilda’s nature of helping goes a long way as guidance is a part of counseling. This is one of the greatest days …show more content…
He’d say I had to move on from this for everyone, including my clients and self. He would be proud of how I’ve become a better individual since I gained the endurance to multi-task, focus, and deal with problems that come my way with less fear, especially as a single parent.” In the end the occupation of counseling influenced upon Awilda by her mother many years ago has affected her negatively and positively. She was influenced as early as 7 years old where she served as her parents translator assisting them in Dr. appointments, parent conferences, job disputes, and even writing letters for them in English learning her true calling. Sometimes she’d witness professionals or ordinary people discriminate her parents due to their limited English. Determined she told herself, “As I grow up I’ll become a professional to help others with any living issue”. Now she lives in Sinking Spring impacting the lives of those from the city of Reading and areas of the
After her father’s hanging, she moved to live with her grandmother. She showed a passion early on for education and the pursuit of knowledge and despite the tragedies of her past, continued to get schooling. Aged eighteen, she married
2016 I have supervised PEO Ramandeep Walia #65846 since she joined C Platoon back in July of 2014. PEO Walia has a very good working knowledge of the duties and responsibilities of a Parking Enforcement Officer and can be depended on to carry out her assignments and make routine decisions with minimum supervision. Since her last evaluation PEO Walia has worked in 14 Division in zones 1 and 2. In June of 2015 she was re-assigned to work in 2 District covering 22 Division north of Bloor St. West. Due to the lack of the availability of a suitable coach officer for the are she has only had one day of training with a coach officer that has the expertise in the area.
In addition to translating the novel, Leila works as a translator in a school district. Leila describes her job as a bridge between parents and teachers to open up communication. Working with mostly recent immigrants, Leila’s position becomes exceedingly frustrating since the job description on paper does not fully depict the reality. Attempting to capture the hardship for the immigrants, Leila emphasizes how their jobs bleed into one another in a stream of collective worries. The association of jobs
The state of North Carolina has several mental health agencies that target the specific needs of youth and adults within the community. Each agency must oblige by the North Carolina Division of Health Service Regulations of Mental Health Licensure and Certification Section ( DHSR) as an operating facility. By Law, mental health agencies must be equipped with licensed professionals that are able to conduct assessments and create service plans for their clients. To obtain this license a counselor must obtain a counseling degree from an accredited University and take the state board counseling test to receive their License Professional Counselor Associate (LPCA). This is the current status that Mrs. Stroman holds with the state of North Carolina.
Section 1: Professional Development Plan For most of my life I have been motivated to help people so when I made the decision to continue my education at Walden University, I knew that I was ready for the journey. I am currently seeking a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and I am expected to graduate in the winter of 2025. This paper was written on June 30th, 2023, with the intent of further understanding my motivations for seeking this degree as well as visualizing the type of counselor I want to be in the future. Throughout this paper, I also discuss what is expected of me throughout my degree program, counseling career, and overall professional development.
Through the unknown and fear you can have a great experience. On a crisp October noon a girl soon to be named Susan Elizabeth Burrell was born. Susan was born and raised until the age of 10 in London England. Even though her and her father set across the sea to start their new life in America Life in England was nothing to take for granted. When I spoke to Susan of her life before she came to America she recalled having fun bonfires with her community and family and enjoying holidays with all her friends and family around her.
As I read the case study of Almeada and baby Anne, I was inspired by her case manager Barbra LaRosa, she provided social care and became the “bridge” between Almeade and the systems. One function of bridging is to narrow the gap between the services being offered and the needs of the individuals who are receiving those services. (Woodside, M. R. (2015). An Introduction to the Human Services, 8th Edition) Ms. LaRosa applied social care to Almeada while she was pregnant with baby Anne, she recognized Almeada's problems in living and since she worked at the school, and Almeada had not returned from summer break, she reached out to her to see what was going on and learn more about her life.
Her life started with an extravagant childhood, her father, a Dutch hatter, being rich at that time. He offered her an early good education, studying to become a nursery school teacher. After her father ended
When she becomes the editor of a school newspaper in the tenth grade, she has already planned her career. She can engage with other pupils in a pleasant way and with grace thanks to her profession. In addition to serving as the school's news editor, she lands an actual job in Greenwich Village as a waitress. Before finally boarding a morning bus to New York City, she also submits applications to colleges there. She works several jobs in New York after arriving there before landing a full-time position at a magazine company and moving in with her partner.
By establishing a worker/client relationship, this will provide Laura with a secure base to operate from in the future. She will be able to confidently explore her historical, current, and future relationship with her mother knowing that she can receive comfort and reassurance from me, her social worker. Once she recognizes this secure base, I will assist her in discovering how she currently handles her relationship with her mother. During this relational discovery process with her mother, I will also allow her to explore her relationship with me, showing Laura how her previous ways of dealing with others could be positively changed through the change of her various internal behavioral models. Through this social worker and client relationship exploration, Laura will discover how her current perceptions of her mother are connected to expectations from their relationship when she was a child, providing her the opportunity to view the current relationship differently.
Like other professions in the mental health field and helping professions, counseling typically attracts those who are imbued with a need to help others, to make a difference in others’ lives, the community around them and sometimes even the world. There are many facets to a counselor and to counseling, some of which take on personal attributes such as personality, the values and beliefs held by counselors, and what they perceive their role in the counseling profession to be. Other facets involve ethical considerations in therapy, the importance of the profession, the value and process of change, important counseling practices and the value of necessary self-care a counselor ought to engage in. The role of a counselor is to act as a conduit to change and wellbeing in a client.
From the ideas and techniques that Mrs. Perez used, I realized how these interviews could be helpful if utilized and applied in the proper way. To me, this assignment was the best and it helped me further my development and growth as a future mental health counselor. The most interesting and educative aspect of this interview was how Mrs. Perez applied most of the counseling techniques, such motivational stage that we have been taught in class. Aspects such as paraphrasing the words of your clients, tone, and facial expressions are critical in a counseling session and students always overlook these techniques. The way Mrs. Perez employed according to her explanation was excellent and her ideas justified the importance of such points in any counseling session.
She grew up in Nigeria and always read books written by Westerners; therefore, she wrote stories about Western children (Adichie, 2009). If all students ever hear is Eurocentric stories, they will never find themselves in what they read or be able to relate. Furthermore,
She is learning english more and more everyday. The life she lives isn’t easy but who’s is? We all have lessons to learn. We all need a little support from time to time.
Summary It is my plan that Emily will be able to develop the necessary skills and confidence when face in difficult situations while working with me as a co-counselor. Emily is new to the profession and still requires on-site supervision and support. She did the right thing by reaching out to me for assistance.