The name of the child involve in this case study is Julliana Rheilyn Soria, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Soria. She was born on September 28, 2005, a 5 year girl and a graduating student in Kindergarten this coming March 28, 2011. She is 2nd honor in their class. Her nickname is "yhana", her father is an officer in Carririan Enterprises while her mother is a plain housewife.
B. Joining Process/ Therapeutic Relationship
When I start doing my case study, there are many persons that I need to consider, of course the first one was her parents. I talked to them that I want to observe their daughter because it is a part of my case study in ECED 11 and if I discover any problems regarding to their child I am willing to help and solve it with the help of the parents.
I easily get the permission from them because we are good friends and they trust me. The child that is involve in this case is close to me because since she was born I treat her like a niece of mine and she also treats me as her aunt and teacher so the flow of the case study became easy.
C. Presenting the Problem
According to her relatives and neighbors
- she is rude
- she gets toys from her playmates
- she is afraid of people who have loud voice
- she is smart in academics but sometimes
According to her parents
- destroys her playmates toys
- she talks like a grown up
- she gets intimidated with people who excels more than her
- she doesn't use "po and opo"
D. Psychosocial History
D.1. Timeline
2004- When Helen knew that she gets pregnant, they both want to abort the child because that time
she is only a 3rd year student and she is afraid to tell her condition to her parents.
2005- When Julliana was born his father was not in hospital, he doesn't want to see his wife's suffering.
One day after Helen gave birth to her daughter, her husband went to the hospital to see their baby.
The grandparents of my client went also to the hospital even if they were disappointed of what
happened to their children.
2006- It is Sept. 28, 2006 where the storm named "Milenyo" and the party that they want for Julliana didn't
happened of the weather.
2007- Two days before the birthday of Julliana, the storm "Ondoy" attacked in Metro Manila and their house
destroyed and they need to fix it in two weeks.
2008- My client always cry because her parents always leave their house and she was just been taken care of
her grandmother.
2009- Her grandfather told me that he and yhana are very close to each other, sometimes when she is crying
she always shouts the name of her grandfather. Maybe because her parents are not present to take
care of her.
2010- In the first day of the school, Julliana was very excited and you cannot see any nervousness in her
instead you can see her very alive and energetic because she will see another environment and meet
different people.
2011-She is the 2nd honor in her class because she proves that she is smart and yhana wants that her
grandfather will be the one who will put the medal on her.
D.2. Genogram(Family Tree)
At Home
At Home
D.3. Sociogram
At school
At home
D.4. Self Mastery
Positive Scenario
She is very interested to learn everything at the age of five. Sometimes I felt that I'm talking to a grown up and she asks me so many questions like how and why? at her age, she knows how to reason out when I started to ask her about critical questions.
Negative Scenario
No one guides her that is why she became "arrogant and discourteous", because her parents are not with her to discipline her.
D.5. Social Relationship
Positive
She is willing to share her toys with her playmates. She loves to play with her friends and classmates, sometimes she invites her classmates to play at their house.
Negative
When she and her friends have misunderstanding at each other she will get back what she gave to her friends.
D.6. Actions
Positive
When I conduct activities to Julliana like writing her full name, she easily wrote it even if her name is long and she also includes her middle name. In terms of drawing she also knows how to draw without looking at the pictures and she loves to draw her dream house.
Negative
While doing the activities I gave to her, the problem that I encountered is when she's not satisfied to her work she became lazy to finish it and she even throws her work.
E. Therapeutical Framework
Hope: Trust vs. Mistrust (Infants, 0 to 1 year)
Psychosocial Crisis: Trust vs. Mistrust
Virtue: Hope
The first stage of Erik Erikson's theory centers around the infant's basic needs being met by the parents. The infant depends on the parents, especially the mother, for food, sustenance, and comfort. The child's relative understanding of world and society come from the parents and their interaction with the child. If the parents expose the child to warmth, regularity, and dependable affection, the infant's view of the world will be one of trust. Should the parents fail to provide a secure environment and to meet the child's basic need a sense of mistrust will result. According to Erik Erikson, the major developmental task in infancy is to learn whether or not other people, especially primary caregivers, regularly satisfy basic needs. If caregivers are consistent sources of food, comfort, and affection, an infant learns trust- that others are dependable and reliable. If they are neglectful, or perhaps even abusive, the infant instead learns mistrust- that the world is in an undependable, unpredictable, and possibly dangerous place.
F. Prognosis
As a whole, I saw that the parents had a big factor about Julliana's behavior. In terms of nurturing their child, they did not give all the needs of their daughter especially the love and care that their child needs. Sometimes yhana feels the love she longs for from her grandfather that is why their are so very attached to each other. My client is afraid of her father because she was been punished when she doesn't performed her best maybe her father expects so much from her but he the way he treats his daughter is not good.Violence might affect the child's whole being.
G. Therapeutic Plan
G.1. Knowledge
To enhance the writing and reading skills of the child.
G.2. Attitude
To show or tell her about being a good child
G.3. Skills
To draw a family tree
H. Therapeutic Interventions
Domain Events Dates
Cognitive -I conduct literacy to her. March 4, 2011
-I asked her to read a tagalog
poem.
Affective -I read the story of Cinderella March 5, 2011
and I asked her what are the
good attitudes of Cinderella
and what scene that touched
her feelings and emotions.
Psycho motor - I asked her to draw her family March 6, 2011
and write something about it.
I. Therapeutic Progress
When I start to study the problem of my client I know to myself that is not difficult to me to help her to change her bad attitudes. She is smart child and she easily understand everything as long as I explained it to her. I tell her about her negative and positive attitudes. She listened to me carefully and did all the activities I gave to her even if their are some problems about her attitude. Later on, I saw that there is development happened to her, because I saw her saying po and opo to the people who are older than her.
J. Therapeutic Results
The result of the case study of Julliana was successful because I saw a lot of changes from her where she became respectful to elders. For me, this case study made me realize that I can do many things to help and change a child. I can say that she learned a lot in this case study and I'm happy about her progress. But in the case of her parents I'm not satisfied with their cooperation they are still the same.
K. Summary, Conclusion and Recommendation
I therefore conclude that the child needs proper attention from her parents. The parents do not know the right way of taking care of their child. Nurturing is one problem of this case, sometimes some parents think that if they give all the financial needs of their child they can be consider as good parents but they do not know that is not enough in nurturing their child.The most important thing that their child needs is there love and care.
So my recommendation to Mr and Mrs. Soria is to give a lot of time to their daughter. It is better that Julliana experience bonding from her family. Do not always leave yhana in her grandfather, give attention to her because it is better that you as her parents are the one who discipline her.
L. Implication to education & Assessment of Young Children
When I assess the child I saw that she has behavior problems. She doesn't respect elders when she talk to them. She becomes dominant to her playmates. So as a global educator, my role is to help and change Julliana. I will continue what I started to her like reading stories and giving her activities,through these yhana will become a better kid. I did my part as her teacher, aunt and therapist in helping her to change.I hope that her parents will consider my suggestions regarding their child's welfare.
