This board is not currently in use for Coun 415. The preclass assignment is to have read Pipher before class starts. This is a requirement!!
This is a week by week listing of class materials and assignments for this web-enhanced class.
Links to Week#
You are going to be using two other media during this class. First, you will need to send me a message via e-mail telling me who you are, and that you want to join the COUN 415 list serv. Send it to JKE6245@aol.com
Next, all web homework is to be turned in to me at the
forum listed below. Click on the button to go to that place.
The Forum button will be located within easy access of all assignments.
Note:
If you do not have access to the web
or to e-mail, you are entitled to free access and an account as a student
of NEIU. Go to the computer lab and set up an account, and begin
to use it. If this is absolutely impossible for you, see me and we will
make alternative plans for you. You are to use the list serve to turn in
some class assignments and interact with your classmates. All
listserv assignments are to be turned in within 5 days of the assignment.
This is meant to be a useful tool to help me know that you are reading
the material, and to let you interact with one another. It should
be a fun experience.
List serve instructions - To join the listserv for COUN415-L click here then follow the instructions.
Now that you have joined the list serve you send your messages to COUN415-L@neiu.edu, or by clicking here. Then send the message and sign it, and your message will go out to everyone on the list.
If you have problems send me an e-mail at JKE6245@aol.com
First Module -
Young children and their families in school and agency settings
Remember that class starts the second Thursday of the term. So on 5/25/00 there is no class.
Week one
- 6/01/00
We will do the following during class
A.Introduction to course - What we will be doing, looking at the syllabus, how to get to the Lincoln Marsh, and other important information.
B.Activity - House-Tree-Person - We will do this in class.
C. Current
developmental theories of families,
Handouts
on development
children and adolescents.
History of the child
House-Tree-Person
guidance and youth services
movement. Pertinent
Kinetic House-Tree-Person
counseling outcome research.
Kinetic Family Drawing
First evening's lecture notes click here.
Basic Child Development Check out these links
Child Development Go to: http://www.neiu.edu/~jkedward/child development.htm
For information on Jean Piaget Go to: http://www.piaget.org/
Family Development click here
Web homework and Listserv assignments
1. Post your name and interests on the list serve. Tell us two things about yourself as a child that helped to make you the interesting person you are today.
2. Read article on Etiology at http://www.neiu.edu/~jkedward/Etiology.htm In a few sentences describe your reactions to this paper.
3. Go to the Forum and follow the instructions there.
4. While you are at the forum, go to the "Homework" section, and in a paragraph or two, tell me what you liked or disliked about the preclass assignment.
Week Two - 6/8/99 Activity - Draw yourself and make yourself interesting
Goals - To learn about family life with infants and toddlers, apply developmental knowledge, and learn interventions used in helping them grow. Learn the research on counseling with children and youth, both as individual and as a family based models.
In class activities -
1. Video - Time for toddlers.
2. Bring a picture of yourself as an infant or as a Toddler. OK, for those of you who don't have a picture of yourself at this age, how about one of you as early as you can find?
3. Learn about the Efficacy Studies of Individual and Family Counseling with Children and Youth
Links for the research on therapy with children, both as an individual (Weisz & Weiss, 1987, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 55, 542-549) and with family therapy (Pinsof and Wynn, 1995, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, ) can be found at this link. Click here!
4. You may go to: http://www.neiu.edu/~jkedward/toddlers.htm
Electronic assignments:
Questions for the day -
1. How does the introduction of a child into a family change the context? What developmental stage is the family in when this happens for the first time? What developmental tasks need to be accomplished for the parents during this time? Think of a memory or two (most likely one that has been past down through oral tradition) you have of your family life when you were either an infant or a toddler. Post your answer on the listserv so that we can compare our answers.
2. Ethics and laws re: youth work DCFS Mandated Reporter and when to report. The case of confidentiality and children's rights. Click here to go to the DCFS web site and look up the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. What are some of it's important points? Next, look up the child protection section and familiarize yourself with these points.
Homework
1. On
the Forum, post your reactions to the DCFS mandates at the Homework section.
Who is a mandated reporter, and when are they required to use their authority?
2.
If you haven't done so already, post your answers to Questions for the
day #1 on the listserv.
3. Post
your thoughts on the ethics of children at the Forum Homework.
Goals To
learn and experience adventure education and its applications to counseling.
In class activities -Participate
in a Teams Course
Questions for the day
- Why would anyone want to climb a wall??
Outside reading assignments
Web exercise
Listserv assignments
Adventure Counseling, and teams course. Note the pay back day was on
5/25/00. We will meet at 9:30, (be there early) at the Wheaton park District's
Lincoln Marsh Teams Course on Harrison St. To find the teams course, you
will need to consult your map given in class, but it is located at the
end of Harrison St. 12 blocks East of County Farm Road. Harrison is between
the Northwestern Train tracks and Jewell Road, between Wheaton and Winfield.
We will be going through the course for four hours, and you are invited
to come to my house afterwards for lunch. This will be a pot luck,
and I will provide the hamburgers and hotdogs. Wear old cloths, and leave
your jewelry at home. Cost is to be determined prior to the adventure.
Week Three
- 6/15/00 Play
Therapy -
Goals To explore the world of play and its usefulness in working with children, to look at the progression of how play therapy came about, refined itself, and to see where it might be headed as a field, and to discuss and query the difference between an individual and a family systems approach. To see the difference between a systemic and an individual model of assessment.
In class activities -
Bring a old Sock and a needle and thread. We will be making a puppet,
looking at the difference between a systemic and a medical model of children's
problems, reviewing the DSM categories, and seeing how art and play can
be useful in this work.. We shall also go over
the requirements for the two papers, and I will answer all of your questions
and hand out the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory.
Questions for the day - When might you
use play therapy as an individual mode, and under what conditions would
you not? Why?
Outside reading assignments - Combrink-Graham,
Handout, and for this class and next read Vernon, Chapter 4, and Orton
Chapter 6.
Web Homework - Check out the following links We are going to use the Forum for all assignments from now on. Remember they are worth 10% of your grade.
Play therapy
site
Art Therapy
http://home.ican.net/~phansen/pages/bookproj.html
or http://home.ican.net/~phansen/index.html
or to http://www.snowcrest.net/kidpower/play.html
Check this web site out for information on a web based tool for interviewing
sexually abused children http://www.childinterview.com/
Web assignments - Post some of your own experiences with playing as a child and as an adult. What might keep you from playing these days? After class post the following -- Given the research on efficacy and effectiveness of play and child therapy as juxtaposed with family therapy, why do you suppose there is such a big push for play therapy and individual child therapy? Post your suggestions and thoughts and questions.
On line counseling? Do you think it can work? Go to at least
two of the the following sites:
http://www.kidshelp.com.au/
http://cybercounsel.uncg.edu/
http://www.counseling.org/gc/cybertx.htm
http://www.ihealthcoalition.org/ethics/summary.html
1. Post your thoughts and feelings about this sort of on line help?
What might be useful and what is potentially problematic? What would you
counsel children or teens about this sort of help?
2. What are the differences in the diagnostic
assessment of children and youth, from the medical model and a systemic
perspective. .
3. Orton and Vernon have similar ideas about play therapy. In
a paragraph, describe what they are. .
Goals To learn about models of parent training and other work with the extended systems. We will also discuss the developmental model of counseling, and setting up such a program.
In class activities - Two students who are in their last Internship, Marilyn Yurku and Nancy Elenbass will demonstrate models of parent training they have learned during their clinical work. I will demonstrate a model of youth/children and adult interactional days that the good folks at Project Adventure in Main used to influence positive interaction between youth and adults.
You may order the book "Please Talk With Me" by Ron J. Gaetano & Jim Grout by contacting Project Advanture, Inc. at P.O. Box 100 hamilton, MA 01936 or by calling 1-508-468-7981.
Questions for the day Given the nature of developmental stages and the importance of children gaining independence, how can this be done with little stress?
Outside reading assignments Read Orton, Chs. 11 &12 and Vernon Chs 12 & 13.
Web exercise A Developmental Counseling Program for Children and Youth - what does it mean? Evaluation: Here is a resource for you http://www.nydic.org/outcome.html
Listserv assignments***6 Given your reading assignments, what and how do you think of the importance of working with parents ? What has been your experiences with parents, either personally or professionally, or both.
Goals To continue learning about play models
of therapy with children, especially as they apply to work with families.
In class activities -
Questions for the day What sort of play
did you like to do as a kid that is different than children today like
to do? Is there a difference between yesterday and today?
Outside reading assignments Read
the Chapters in Orton and Vernon on Play therapy and the last chapter in
Vernon.
Web exercise Look up on the web all the
sites for play therapy you can find.
Listserv assignments***7
Briefly compare and contrast what the different sources you have read and
studied say about the use of play in counseling.
We have been talking about diagnosis from the systemic and medical model. Go to this link http://odp.od.nih.gov/consensus/cons/110/110_statement.htm
Now scan the document and see what their outcome conclusions are regarding, ADHD's over diagnosis, use of medication and preferred treatment modalities. How does this new information influence you with regard to past understanding and future work with children who present with this sort of dilemma?
Second Module -
Youth and their families in school and agency settings
Goals This is a research
day. I will be in my office for consultation, but you are supposed
to be in groups to begin working on your final projects.
In class activities -
Questions for the day
Outside reading assignments
Web exercise
Listserv assignments
Week Seven - 7/13/99 no exceptions, it is due this week!
Goals To begin the
transition from families with children to families with teens.
In class activities -
We will discuss your first papers, and begin to think about the transition
from childhood to middle childhood and adolescents. What developmental
tasks are involved?
Questions for the day
What is your definition of youth? When is a young person no longer
in this category and moving into adulthood? What are the developmental
tasks needed for this transition, both for the youth and their families?
How is this recursive? How did the advent of being an adult impact you?
What did you think about being an adult with regard to sexuality and responsibility
and independence???
Outside reading assignments
Read Vernon Chs. 9 and 10
Web exercise
Web board assignments***8
What was it like for you as you transitioned from childhood to being a
young adult. Try and be objective and relate your changes to the
reciprocal changes this had on your family an/or extended family. What
factors are different these days? Briefly discuss these issues, then include
the ideas that Phiper discusses regarding the issues of the latest generation
and the impact they have on families and teens.
I remember the day I first heard the Rolling Stones like it was yesterday. It was summer and Friday night, and my best friend Bill and I had just left the local outdoor hangout, and teen meeting/pick-up place in Hinsdale. We had the top down on my 1964 (brand new) Maroon with white leather interior Mercury convertible, after striking out with the girls that evening, and Mick came on singing, "I can't get no satisfaction." How fitting, and how much an anthem for teens those days. It separated us from the bubble gum rock of Herman's hermits, and the Beatles. What songs do you remember from your teens and how do they fit as defining, meaning making events?
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH?t=8124&r=WSAOL002
Week Eight
- 7/20/99
Goals To
discuss and understand the issues regarding at-risk children and youth.
In class activities -
Julie Milne and I will discuss our work with Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Questions for the day
What effects of the larger system, i.e., culture, media, and values, are
involved with troubled youth, and how are they developmentally influenced?
What answers do you have for correcting this problem? Or is there
really a problem??
Outside reading assignments
See Web assignment.
Web exercise Using
the links below, go and do the work requested.
Listserv assignments
See below.
Children and Youth -
***9
A. Go to http://www.neiu.edu/~jkedward/risk.htm
When you have looked at the statistics, write down your thoughts and feelings
and be prepared to discuss them in class. What are your hypothesis
regarding this information? Now go on to B and follow the directions
given there.
B. Go to http://www.nssc1.org/home.htm and look under RESOURCES FOR REPORTERS for # 7. Testimony of Dr. Ronald D. Stephens executive director of the National School Safety Center, before the US House of Representatives on understanding violent children in schools.
C. At the same address, look at the # 2. The School Associated Violent Deaths Report, and # 4. Checklist for Characteristics of Violent Youth. When you have finished, go to the forum and post at least two questions that this paper has raised for you. Interact with the other students regarding your individual postings.
National Institute on the Education of At-Risk Students http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/At-Risk/
What about the birth rates for teens? Look here to find out.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder -
***10 After
reading (click here)
the article by Milne, Edwards and Murchie, (1999) and hearing about
it in class reflect on the previous assignment and give your thoughts
about the similarities and differences. Give a short critical analysis
of both. For
those of you who could might like to look, there is a draft of an article
that has the stats from the School Associated Violent Deaths Report
that I wrote if you
click here
Week Nine - 7/27/99 again, no exceptions, it is due this week!
Goals To discuss the
issues involved with suicide and eating disorders with youth.
In class activities -
Questions for the day
Outside reading assignments
Web exercise
Listserv assignments
Week Ten
- 8/3/99
Listserv assignments -***11Post
your thoughts about the Questions of the day. While you are at it, check
out L'Abate's site at
http://www.mentalhealthhelp.com/
and tell me what you think of his ideas for increasing
counseling efforts.
Final Class and Group Projects are due. Food is most welcome.
Goals To apply all of the course material, both what you have read and what we have done collectively, and produce a developmental counseling program for a particular group of children, as either a school based, or community based counseling program, and to convince the rest of the class of it's need and potential effectiveness.
In class activities - through role play and demonstration demonstrate your group's program. Have fun!
Questions for the day - What systemic barriers are there to developing these programs, and why are these barriers there?
Outside reading assignments - War and Peace (kidding)
Web exercise - join
the ICA web site. List serve instructions - send a message
to listproc@neiu.edu, with the
body of the message stating: subscribe
ICA-L counselor Your Name
While you are at it, why not join ICA and stay committed,
in touch and proactive. Go to their web page and see what's in it for you.
Listserv assignments - ***12
Sign off to all of your colleagues in the
class by telling us what your most memorable experience in this class was,
and why. Make a pledge to stay committed to children and youth work,
and staying in touch.
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