I am continuing my jouney with the completion of my practicum hours.
I have been able to have sucessfully completed 88 hours. My supervisor wrote out for me a satisfacory evaluation of my progress after te fisrt completed 75 hours. I am enjoying my experiences with the children's unit. The children's unit is definetly my nich. I feel as if I am doing something worthwhile and something that brings purpose to both the children and to myself. It brings great joy to see a child's eyes brighten up whenever, I walk into the door. Their previous life experiences for them haven't always been very good for them. Unforunate life occurances has happened to them that is beyon their control. Some of these children are in foster care, some with residential and some with a disfunctional famiy. These children have mental illness's and some of their current family members have mental health issues as well. Life for these children isn't very easy. These children's lives aren't the typical life that children have of individual's without a mental health issues. I work on bringing a little bit of light, and laughter to each child. I can't always do this though. Because of the unfortunate circumstances for which these children have experienced; anger, resentful emotions arise from the chidren. I have been implementing anger management lesson plans. Everything has been going well for me. I plan to continue the rest of my practicum hours to reach the recommended hours.
Marie Zajac
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