tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342498222024-09-04T12:33:15.878-07:00LaSeal Djonzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04236988553835522641noreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249822.post-44775375562468229812012-01-22T08:54:00.000-08:002012-05-06T12:42:08.191-07:00

Last semester, as part of one of my Counseling and Guidance classes, I participated in a group project that examined issues in the retention of low-income college students in higher education. In my research I encountered Jeff Davis' research on first generation college students. Jeff Davis, an academic counselor and administrator at Sonoma State University, defines “first generation student” as

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It's the beginning of Spring semester 2012 and I'm now admitted (classified status) to the M.A. Counselor Education program. It's not been an easy path, and I've refrained from posting since I didn't want to winge (i.e. whine) about setbacks and forwards and issues. I made my decision to apply for Fall Semester 2012; since I was also applying for the SJSU part-time librarian list.(which also

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Last class for EDCO 215 today. My group did a presentation on multicultural counseling, we discussed our genograms, and got back our journals. Dr. Beach, still pregnant (due next week) said we'd done a good job and that she looked forward to seeing us in the future. I'm having my end of class scruples, which are not positive,I've demonstrated that I can do post-graduate work (at San Jose State,

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It's time to end this portion of LaSeal Djonz's blog written as her journal for EDCO 215. Months ago I was concerned about whether I could go back to university and do postgraduate work. This course was doable, despite my fears and concerns about the research project proposal. I did spend more time than I would have liked (just about everything else was on hold) working on the project. I've

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I've known Trudi for several years and recently chatted with her about her work. Since leaving county social services, she has been a volunteer child advocate and now coordinates the Listening Post, a drop-by counseling program at San Jose State, where I volunteer once a week as a listener. She didn't choose to be a social worker; it was chosen for her. She was an English major, a new faculty

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Multicultural counseling appears to be another integrative approach to counseling. The chapter on multicultural counseling in the textbook comes before the chapters on counseling theories. I now see that the textbook emphasizes developing an eclectic, individual approach; every chapter beyond chapter 6 addresses diversity issues. I'm one of a small group of three doing a presentation on the last

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I don't remember much about school counselors when I was in elementary school. (I do remember taking I.Q. tests.) From reading the historical section on Nystul's chapter on school counseling, I can understand why he summarizes the chapter beginning "School counseling is a dynamic and challenging field." There have been developments, changes, standards, models and a lot of legislative and

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Ellen S. has worked as a social worker and school counselor. I asked her some questions about her experience.What made you decide to be a counselor/social worker?Near the end of my sophomore year of college I went to a Methodist church conference on church related vocation; during that week-end that I thought I would like to work for the church as a social worker. When I finished my BA I realized

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Two weeks to go until the end of class, but one week to complete this journal. The last week my group gives presentations. We're not very organized group and I'm still trying to work out what multicultural counseling means. We'll get through with it all but I'm not quite on track with interviews and comments. This week the subject was career counseling. As an opening exercise we got into groups

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Thursday I went to Stanford University to be screened to participate as a volunteer research subject in a study on the relationship between excess body fat and risk for weight-related health problems such as diabetes. The screening was a glucose tolerance test. I had to fast for twelve hours, then my blood levels were monitored before and after taking a glucose drink. In all the screening lasted

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Daisy, Ivan and Roberto did a super presentation on group counseling. The opening activity was a lot of fun; Our instructions were to make an outline of your hand on a piece of paper, cut it out and answer the following questions per finger. Favorite food, birthplace, favorite hobby, what you are in this program, something unique about yourself. Then we each got up and spoke about our choices and

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Sara Grace Vann, a counselor at Woodside High School was the guest speaker in EDCO 215 this week. She's had experience as a counselor in elementary, middle and high schools. In her high school there are several school counselors (I didn't write down the number), every student has a guidance counselor (Sarah has a load of over 300). Her work as a counselor involves meeting with students and

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I heard Paul Linde interviewed on Michale Krasny's Forum earlier this year. He's Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine, UCSF and a good writer in the genre of medical writing. It begins with:"I love my job when I'm not there. I'm a doctor in the psych emergency room at SFGH. One reason I work there is that when I'm not there, I'm not there. I have a decent shot at separating

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I felt we barely skimmed the surface -- there's a lot to learn here, and in this introductory class we can't learn everything. Fortunately we're not expected (yet) to submit answers to questions comparing theories or elaborate on treatment for problems such as suicide and childhood depression. Everything comes and goes too quickly and all I can say now is that I'm aware of complexity, some

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Charles Bowman's (this week's guest speaker) style was confrontational, belligerent and definitely off-putting, but I can see how this style might be effective in his work as a counselor for underachieving boys. Bowman made the distinction between learners and students, pointing out that learners rarely come for counseling; it's mostly (male) detached and underachieving students who are sent to

LaSeal Djonzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04236988553835522641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249822.post-21802009988733329072011-04-09T19:04:00.000-07:002011-04-09T20:07:43.190-07:00

Dr Beach mentioned Gary Chapman's book Five Love Languages. Library Journal sent me Love as a Way of Life to review several years ago, and I went on to read the Five Languages of Love. Chapman gives I remember taking the quiz, but couldn't find the results. I logged on to www.5lovelanguages.com, took the assessment and got Dr, Djonz to take it too. LaSealLove Language Scores:9 Words of

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Marriage and family counseling seems out of place in this Introduction to (Educational) Counseling and Guidance class, but this is an introduction -- and couples and relationships are part of counseling and guidance. My experience has been with counseling individuals, so group counseling is a new learning experience. My own experience of couples counseling didn't seem helpful at the time. Looking

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My research paper proposal was returned on Monday. I got 46/50, not bad, actually, very good. So what was the fuss about? My inner voice says it wasn't a real research project, but a proposal, an exercise in writing. Okay, I got through it, I finished it, I'm doing university graduate work. This was an project that I didn't have to get everything right. If this was to continue as my research in

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I've been reading Shawn Kent Hayashi's book Conversations for Change. In her book she gives a link to her website and encourages readers to take her Talent Mastery Assessment (gives the password in her book.) I took it and found some interesting insights. For example, my ideal work environment features:Little conflict between people.A stable and predictable environment.Needs an opportunity to

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Over the years I've enjoyed the Writers and Readers ".. for Beginners" documentary comic books. They're sometimes hard to locate, since there have been publisher changes, reissues and other trans-Atlantic, not to mention sometimes language translation issues. These past few weeks I've dipped into Adler for Beginners and Gestalt for Beginners to supplement reading from my counseling textbook.From

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"The more things change, the more they remain the same." Albert Ellis' REBT seems very much like reframing. Cognitive therapy takes lot from client-centered therapy. The way that the class and Nystul's textbook is structured shows how different modes draw on what came before.

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I watched the Gloria ‘Three Approaches to Psychotherapy’, films for the first time and wonder how I would have reacted if I'd seen the films when I was studying psychology at Sydney University. The films demonstrate the different approaches of client-centered, gestalt and rational-emotive therapies as practiced by their 'originators -- Carl Rogers, Fritz Perls and Albert Ellis. I was certainly

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Can you learn to be empathetic or is empathy a quality that you either have or don't have? Empathy isn't a word that most people use every day; it was a new word for me, as I remember, when I trained for telephone counseling. My opinion is that empathy can be learned, but not taught. Indeed, trying to teach empathy can be counterproductive. Perhaps an environment can be set up where empathy is

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I'll turn my paper in on Monday. At the moment it's mostly finished and laid out according to APA 6. I'm at home and Dr. Djonz is now reading my paper --which may be a mistake. There's always going to be room for improvement."It's not a research paper " the voice within me says. Okay, let's call it a baseline for further improvement. This week during a slow time at the reference desk I spoke with

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A few months ago Essie my supervisor had everyone in the department take a short online Myers-Briggs inventory and report the results back to her. Like a number of others in the department, I turned out to be an ISFJ (Introvert Sensing Feeling Judging). Essie remarked that everyone in the department was an introvert (except Able who, like Essie is an extrovert). It surprised me that I shared

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