Introduction
For the Cultural Understanding through Community Service assignment, I had the pleasure of volunteering at Delicate Touch Personal Care, LLC. Delicate Touch Personal Care, LLC is located at 140 W. Washington Street, Suite 109, Suffolk, Virginia. The mission of Delicate Touch Personal Care, LLC is to provide superior, compassionate home health care services while maximizing outcomes and utilizing cost-effective recourses that will promote community and family involvement. Delicate Touch Personal Care, LLC is dedicated on enabling their clients to live with dignity and respect and independence. Mrs. Taniyika Silver’s, owner of Delicate Touch Personal Care, LLC, goal is to providing exceptional care to the people who need the most. …show more content…
The similarities that I have with the clients are we’re family oriented, religious, lived in our own homes/apartments, active within our communities, and married or in a relationships. There were also difference between us. The differences included being intellectually and developmentally disabled, elderly, had different ethnic backgrounds (Caucasian) and male. However, throughout our differences, our similarities connects us and reminds me how we all are human with similar goals and outlooks on life. Walsh, Olson, Ploeg, Lohfeld, &MacMillian states that elderly people experience abuse due oppression experienced as a consequences of ageism, sexism, ableism/disability, racism, heterosexism/homophobia, classism and various types of oppressions (Walsh et al., 2010) Elderly people with disabilities are subject to being viewed as helpless, burden on families, needy and incapable of doing everyday tasks which can have a negative impact on employment and forming positive relationships with others. Erik Erikson Psychosocial Development would be best suited for the clients counseling session because this theory identifies a series of eight stages in which a healthy developing individual should experience from infancy to late adulthood (Seligman & Reichenberg, 2010). According to Eric Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development, wisdom stages would be appropriate for the clients. During …show more content…
As a school counselor, I would support my students by challenging in unjust policies and practices within the school and implement workshops/seminars monthly that promotes mental health awareness and disability awareness. One of the main issues with mental health needs are that they go undiagnosed and or treated and school-based or class room interventions that supports awareness are helpful for advancement of schools (Auger, 2016). I would provide support to students who have physical and mental disabilities through individual counseling. I would implement and advisory council, which would include the parents, staff, administrators, stakeholders, and various groups in the community. The advisory council would assist the counselors with recommendations about the counseling program, funding and resources geared towards students with disabilities, and advocate and engage in public relations for the school counseling program (ASCA, 2012). Lastly, I would take advantage of professional development workshops on mental health and disabilities. From my experience, I learned the importance of helping students who may have disabled elderly family members or are disabled
For the Cultural Understanding through Community Service assignment, I had the pleasure of volunteering at Delicate Touch Personal Care, LLC. Delicate Touch Personal Care, LLC is located at 140 W. Washington Street, Suite 109, Suffolk, Virginia. The mission of Delicate Touch Personal Care, LLC is to provide superior, compassionate home health care services while maximizing outcomes and utilizing cost-effective recourses that will promote community and family involvement. Delicate Touch Personal Care, LLC is dedicated on enabling their clients to live with dignity and respect and independence. Mrs. Taniyika Silver’s, owner of Delicate Touch Personal Care, LLC, goal is to providing exceptional care to the people who need the most. …show more content…
The similarities that I have with the clients are we’re family oriented, religious, lived in our own homes/apartments, active within our communities, and married or in a relationships. There were also difference between us. The differences included being intellectually and developmentally disabled, elderly, had different ethnic backgrounds (Caucasian) and male. However, throughout our differences, our similarities connects us and reminds me how we all are human with similar goals and outlooks on life. Walsh, Olson, Ploeg, Lohfeld, &MacMillian states that elderly people experience abuse due oppression experienced as a consequences of ageism, sexism, ableism/disability, racism, heterosexism/homophobia, classism and various types of oppressions (Walsh et al., 2010) Elderly people with disabilities are subject to being viewed as helpless, burden on families, needy and incapable of doing everyday tasks which can have a negative impact on employment and forming positive relationships with others. Erik Erikson Psychosocial Development would be best suited for the clients counseling session because this theory identifies a series of eight stages in which a healthy developing individual should experience from infancy to late adulthood (Seligman & Reichenberg, 2010). According to Eric Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development, wisdom stages would be appropriate for the clients. During …show more content…
As a school counselor, I would support my students by challenging in unjust policies and practices within the school and implement workshops/seminars monthly that promotes mental health awareness and disability awareness. One of the main issues with mental health needs are that they go undiagnosed and or treated and school-based or class room interventions that supports awareness are helpful for advancement of schools (Auger, 2016). I would provide support to students who have physical and mental disabilities through individual counseling. I would implement and advisory council, which would include the parents, staff, administrators, stakeholders, and various groups in the community. The advisory council would assist the counselors with recommendations about the counseling program, funding and resources geared towards students with disabilities, and advocate and engage in public relations for the school counseling program (ASCA, 2012). Lastly, I would take advantage of professional development workshops on mental health and disabilities. From my experience, I learned the importance of helping students who may have disabled elderly family members or are disabled