Thursday, November 8, 2012

Blog 5b: Science Fair Proposal

Title: Science Fair Proposal
Label: Science Fair
Due: Friday, November 9th 8AM

1. What is your topic? My topic is child life specialist
2. What is the driving problem behind your experiment and the quote by an expert to support that problem?
The issue in my topic is that children who are being hospitalized increase their levels of depression/anxiety. "Most children that child life specialist deal with go through S.A.D , which is the Seperation Axiety disorder". (SOURCE:Harvard Medical School teaching hospital)
3. What is your hypothesis? If a child is offered therapeutic play, their level of depression / anxiety will decrease.
4. How I will conduct my experiement is I will use the kids that I mentor with as my main source. For my project I will be analyzing the effectivness of play therapy with children. I will asses the levels of anxiety among the children before administering play activities in a experimental and control group.To determine the effectiveness of play activities among children I will use the  experimental group. My selected variables will be such as age, sex, intials, and grade.
5. Select one of the following Project Categories for your experiment:
Behavioral/Social Science?

Sunday, November 4, 2012

blog #9


(1) What was the working EQ you used during your presentation?
What are the most important factors to being an efficient child life specialist?
(2) Did you decide to revise your working EQ after your presentation?
I am not going to revise my EQ at this time.
(3) What are possible answers to your current working EQ?
~certification
~excellent written and verbal communication skills
~Being able to adjust in various types of medical/emotional situations. (Flexible)