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03 The Meta Model

Assessment often results in a process in which the child is asked to change his/her behavior without the slightest notion or, perhaps, even interest of whether the child actually wants to change. In most cases, the child, if asked, is likely to indicate that it is not s/he, but others, who need to change if the world is to be a better place. Human service workers tend to reject this ‘other’ notion, even when they know that it is true. The problems of dealing with an ecosystem seem simply much too difficult, are not a funded category, and, by the way, are really not ‘in my job description’.

04 Anxiety

Everyone knows what it is like to feel anxious. Anxiety arouses you to action, It gears you up to face threatening situations. The “butterflies” focus you for better response. Anxiety in children is normal at specific times in development. Healthy youngsters may show intense distress [anxiety] at time of separation from their parents. Young children may have short-lived fears such as fear of the dark, thunder, animals or strangers. Yet when anxiety becomes severe either exaggerated or chronic in duration, it can disrupt daily life and the ability to cope.

04 Changing Organizational Culture

Managing people in an organization has certain congruence with managing people with problems in living. In both cases, there is a requirement to get the personal preferences of the individuals involved compatible with a specific, defined set of assumptions which the manager believes will be beneficial to both the individual and the organization or society. And in both cases, the critical assumption underlying the need for change is that the learning environment [culture] has somehow created and maintained thoughts that are now considered to be incompatible with the desired culture.

04 Developing a Plan of Change

The goal of assessment is not to create a diagnostic label, but rather to provide a profile of functioning that will yield concrete guidelines for selection of intervention strategies. The reason that assessment is so dangerous is that people exhibit a tendency to focus on positive or confirming instances when they gather and evaluate information relevant to a given belief or hypothesis.

04 Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

The enclosed protocol, techniques and procedures were adapted materials from several source. Probably the major source, at least in terms of format, is ‘OCD in Children’ [the Guilford Press, 1998]. In addition, we selected articles by Steven Phillipson from his web...

04 Percepts & Concepts

“One of the deepest problems in cognitive science is that of understanding how people make sense of the vast amount of raw data constantly bombarding them from the environment” [Hofstadter, 1995]. How do perceptions occur and formulate conceptions? The lowest...

04 Psychological Counseling In Schools

For purposes of implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act has provided federal regulations that define related services and require that local education agencies provide, among other things, psychological counseling services to children with disabilities who need them to benefit from special education.