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Using this personal photo of me i can talk about how i have improved myself over the past couple years, since i was 8 years old i dreamed of being a pitcher for my softball team i worked for years on it until i was 15 and then i became a pitcher, this reflects on my own personal self domain due to my perseverance, this will help me in the CYC field due to working my hardest to receive the best result

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Due to it becoming spring time, I personally found some flower crafts online to do with the kids in my personal placement. I altered the flower cards craft, instead of the card i got them to just do one sheet of paper and make a massive flower out of parts of a separate sheet, they pasted the flower they created onto the original paper, from there they designed both the flower and the paper around it. I helped these kids with there communication skills as well as my own.

While studying at Mohawk College for C.Y.C I discovered that I had a personal preference for psychology, I can use psychology to my advantage especially with this program. A good example of this is that lots of problems with children start at a young age, I  want to be able to either solve or help children solve their own problems. With Psychology, I can use this skill to discover if the clients problem is something internally or externally . Something I would like to improve on for  my understanding  of sociology. I would personally like to improve on sociology so I can understand that certain theories and theoretical terms are used in specific social settings. An example of this idea is to think along the lines of: What I can do when a child is in a specific social situation? How I can help the child benefit from said theory? When using both psychology and sociology together I can benefit greatly with figuring out problems and helping the client figure out strategies to cope with their problems.

My ideal theoretical orientation is to become confident in studies such as, drug abuse, trauma in children, phycological development in children. Also  becoming confident in psychological disorders such as depression, anxiety, Autism, Schizophrenia, Alcohol fetal syndrome etc. I would like to study all of the following and  to understand the  cognitive development of the child. This is so i can figure out what practice would be most beneficial to the child. I believe the practice I would like to personally use is individual counselling and therapeutic playing.. The individual counselling portion I would like to use  for youth and older children (Between ages 10-12) is to destress the client over what has been troubling them and how we can solve an issue. This will give me the opportunity to not only discuss but to understand the client on a more personal level.  I would use therapeutic play with a younger child so the client can express feelings better and so the client can become more comfortable around myself being the C.Y.C.