My main objective for continuing my education is to be able to counsel children and adults in three basic fields. The first being children and adults with ADD/ADHD and learning disabilities. I want to help them overcome their disability, boost their self-esteem, and give them a better sense of well being. The second is for counseling children and adults of separated/ divorced families to help them as parents be better more effective parents without intentionally placing their children in the middle of their indifferences. The third is aimed toward people with chronic pain. Using a non-drug enhanced pain relief by showing them how they can adjust their way of thinking therefore better dealing with their pain.
My concerns in regards to my three objectives are, firstly, there are quite a few children with learning disabilities that go undetected and untreated due to the fact that teachers and parents don’t know or don’t see the early warning signs that the child has. As a parent of a late diagnosed child, I know first hand how children get pushed along within the school system because teachers and myself as a parent didn’t differentiate the difference of struggling in school and actually have a diagnosed learning disability. Secondly, as a child of divorced parents and a divorced parent myself, I have seen how a parent or parents inhibit the action of placing their children against the other parent and how parents use their children as a playing piece against the other parent to intentionally hurt and/or manipulate them. Children shouldn’t be used as a object since their lives are already disrupted due to the separation or divorce. If a councilor was able to assist these families or just the children it could greatly cut down on the push me/ pull me lives that many children have. Lastly, as a person who suffers from chronic pain, I have had to endure many prescription drugs that just mask the pain or that don’t work at all. If given the opportunity to use a technique like this to help assist with the pain and try to overcome the chronic condition that I endure daily, I would be elated to do so. There are many people whom live with chronic pain that could greatly benefit from this.
Some important activities that I participate in are Star Catchers ( a reading program at my children’s elementary school) and Girl Scouts ( I have been my two daughter’s Girl Scout leader for four years now). An important development in my life is after being out of high school for eleven years I am willing and trying to go back to college to better educate myself and provide a better future for my 5 children.
My favorite authors and books range from Stephen King, “Tommy Knockers”, to Nicholas Sparks, “A Walk To Remember”. Stephen King‘s, “Tommy Knockers”, I like because of the suspense. He really makes you think about what is going to happen and to whom it is going to happen to. “Tommy Knockers” makes you really think about touching things that don’t belong to you and just how severe the consequences can be if you do. Nicholas Spark‘s, “A Walk To Remember” it shows you that when you love with all your heart, mind, body, and soul and you find that one special person in with whom you can have that, you are happy for all eternity.
I have chose the Virtual (online) residency because I am a mother of 5 children and I feel that if I am not readily available to them before school, after school, and in the evening to help them with homework, discuss their day, and tuck them into bed then I have not fulfilled my motherly duties to them. My youngest child is just a year old and I feel that my place is home with him, not with him in daycare all day. With virtual residency I am able to be home with my children and still work on my degree in psychology.
