Blog 12: Third interview questions

Questions:
#1). What is the most significant contribution of child life services to a hospitalized child's health?
#2). What is something you enjoy most about your job?
#3). What age group do you like working with best?
#4).What is it like when you are working with a child who has an over protective family?
#5). What is the major difference when it comes to preparing a child vs parents for procedures?
#6). Being that play in the hosptal is a method used by child life specialst, do you feel any specific technique of play is most effective?
#7). How do you help a child cope with feelings related to treatments?
#8). Being that your job can go  from happy, to sad ,do you personally feel any one of those emotions has a larger scale?
#9). What made you want to pursue your job in this field?
#10). Do you have any favorite memory about your job?

Blog 11 Mentorship 10 hours check

Due Date:  Friday 1/11/13 at 8AM.

Content:

1.   Where are you doing your mentorship? I have conitued my mentorship hours at the daycare, because so far I have been able to do more hands on work there rather than when i went to city of hope hospital.
2.   Who is your contact? My contact is the daycare owner, Dalilah Calderon. She is the one who let me do my hours there, and she is present at all time when I do them.
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3.   How many total hours have you done ? The amount of hours I did is 15 this time, including the other 10 I have a grand total of 27 hours.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Arv7-kyJVfnSdE9KYXhGdHpkNEl1Qy1VU2dydENyN0E#gid=0

4.   Summarize the 10 hours of service you did. This time I feel i was geting to know the kids a bit better, During these hours I did do the basics of what I did last time like make sure the kids weren't going out of hand, making lunch, and doing activities with them.
5.   Email your house teacher the name of your contact and their phone number.   (done)

Senior project update

Content:

(1) What are you currently doing in your independent component?
For my independent component, I am currently still dloing my mentorship hours at Delovely daycare. I really do appreciate the time i get to spend helping at the daycare, to add I would like to do some type of volunteer work as well at a childrens hospital soon.

(2) What is a recent piece of research (article, interview, or audio-visual) that have you reviewed you would say was significant in helping you understand where to go next in your senior project?  The piece of research should be something you reviewed in November.  Please explain what you learned and where are you going next because of this piece of research.Alot of articles that I read have different information, so that I'm always learning something new. But something within this month that has significant the most was when purther assesed my EQ with the class. It's so that my previous EQ probally wouldn't have cut it, so he helped me in a sense to make me have to take the next step and find more depth within childlife specialist. He also gave suggestions such as to include how to help a child with a certain disease cope.
(3) Provide evidence from your independent component or the piece of research as something you recently did.  ....Here is a picture I took with my cell phone of a few of the children I work with at the daycare having lunch together.
(jacob,trinity,mariah,noah,&max)

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?

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)

Blog #8 : Rough draft of presentation 1

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7v7-kyJVfnSZUFKYy1tM3duejg/edit

Blog #7: Independent Component Approval

Write a description of what you plan on doing for your independent study component.

As of right now I am still thinking of a solid plan for my independent component. So far, since I've been doing my mentorship at a childrens daycare, I would like to get more into the hospital setting and do mentorship at a well known hospital . I have two places in mind where i could be able to get invovled, City of Hope in Duarte and The Mattel children's hopsital in Los Angeles. At these places I would be able to do things such as work at events involving the sick patients, and being able to be there side to side by them.

Describe in detail how you think your plan will meet the 30 hours work requirement.

I know for a fact that if i do go along with my plan, I will meet the required 30 hours easily. For me it is a really great thing that hopsitals have strict requirments about the minimum of hours I must work there. I will be able to voulunteer either once or twice a week and do at least 3-4 hours each time.

How does your independent study component relate to your working EQ?

My independent study will help me alot by relating to my working EQ in many ways. For one I would get the real experience of being in the hospital setting. Also, I will be able to not only get the feel of working with children, but I would get hands on experience with working with actual hospitalized children who are ill.