My Case Study

Case study

A.    Personal data

Child’s name: Felicity Mae S. Bernardino

Date of birth: July 18, 2005

Age: 6 years old

Gender: female

Mother’s name: Annariza Bernardino

Father’s name: Jonathan Bernadino

Brother’s name: Aaron jhon Bernardino

                         Terrel jhon Bernadino

Name of school: La Consolacion College Caloocan City

Grade: kinder 2

     Joining process:

Felicity mae is my client in my case study. She will serve as my student and I will be her teacher. I will conduct several activities for her, for me to be able to observe her learning abilities and her behavior.

C.     Presenting problem:

According to her parents, and teacher she is good in academic but she felt shy to the other person. Her mother says that her daughter is hyperactive in their house or “makulit”. Her behavior in school is different in their house. But the good thing about her is she is top one to her section. Even though she felt shy to her classmates but she did her best. She likes rock music and she acts like a boy.

Psychological history:

D.1 Time line:

          1-2 years old her uncle is the one who take care because her parents are working. She imitates the action of her uncle like dancing and sings a rock music.

          3-4 she have her maid because her uncle is working. And she is already studying in the barangay center (nursery). She has a trauma for what her nanny did to her.

          5 years old: she entered the kinder garden at La Consolacion College in Caloocan city. First week of the school she always cries because she wants her mother inside the room beside her.

          6 years old: she felt shy to the other person but very active in the house. She is seeking attention to her parents.

D.2 Genogram:

D.3 Sociograph:

                     

          The member of the family she belong. Her mother, Annariza Bernardino a psychologist and her father, Jonathan Bernardino a computer technician and her brother name Aaron Jhon a grade 2 pupil and Terrel  jhon Bernardino and one nanny who take care of the during her parents are working.

                           

          D.4 Self mastery

                   My client, very naughty and she act like a boy. She really wants rock music and I observe all of her toys are for boys like guns, robot, cars, and more. She idolized Michael Jackson. She enjoyed jumping to their sofa.

          D.5 the child relationship

                   The relationship of my client to her family member, sometimes they have bonding even her parents are busy working. Felicity mae must close to her friends and nanny. She is generous to her friends compare to her two brothers.

         

          D.6 Action

                   Sometimes she has an initiative and generous to others. If she has no playmate she keeps on coloring the big books and playing the ball alone.

    THEORETICAL FRAME WORK

          In relation with Piaget’s stages of cognitive development, I have observed that my client in the stage 2 of his cognitive development of pre-operational stage where in she is in the stage of ego-centrism. Also in Erickson psycho-social theory of development, my client is in stage 2 or the second stage wherein the task is to achieve a degree of autonomy or independence while maximizing shame and doubt. This is the stage wherein the child is able to explore and manipulate her environment it is very true with the case of my client because she was able to go to her neighbor independently without his parent supervising her.

F.  Prognosis

As I observe her, she is attention seeker because like what her mother said that she is hyperactive in their house. But her teacher said that she is behaving in the class and felt shy to her classmate. Therefore she seeks attention to her parents especially she is the middle child.

G. Therapeutic Plan

                   OBJECTIVES

G.1 Knowledge Building

Ø Teach her to read and comprehends words

G.2 Skills Building

Ø Teach her to draw and write illegibly

G.3 Attitude Building

Ø Show her how to respect the older and act a good behavior.

Specific Detailed Therapeutic

Objectives     v Teach her to write words, read and coloring the big book. v Let them play to her friends and brothers v She went to the church with her family

Activities v Tracing letters and read the story. v Play the games the boat is sinking v Family bonding

Schedule v Saturday -Sunday v Saturday v Sunday

 Therapeutic Progress

Activities v Tracing letters read the story and coloring big books. v Play the games the boat is sinking with her friends and brothers. v Family bonding

Schedule v Saturday to Sunday v Saturday v Sunday

Progress v She is behaving while doing the activities that I conduct and she enjoy coloring the big book. v As I observed when she did the games she acts like a boy. v She felt happy when her mother said after the church; we went to the Mall of Asia.

Therapeutic Result

As the activities done, I observe to my client that she has an improvement with the help of her parents. And she imitates my action as a girl. Every time they have a family bonding she let me tie her hair. And now she did not jump on their sofa because her mother gets mad to her when she does it again. Her parents give her time to do her assignment.

K. Summary/ Conclusion/ Recommendation

          Summary:

Felicity Mae is my client; she is the middle child the only one girl. When she was a baby her uncle takes care of her because her parents are busy working. As the time goes by when felicity grew up her parents noticed that she act like a boy and hyperactive in their house. Very naughty and she always went to their neighbor without a parents permission. But according to her teacher she is behaving in the class and very silent. She has a different in the school.

          Conclusion:

Therefore she seeks attention to her parents. She did a bad thing so that her parents give attention to her.

Recommendation:

Regarding my observation and analysis, I recommend that the child must be properly guided and give attention to her. Mature people around him must be careful of the input they’re giving to the child because the child can easily grasped it and it will remain in their minds because the child is great imitator. And according to John Locke the child’s mind is like a blank state that whatever information they get it will register in their minds.

L. Implications to Education and assessment of young children

 Children today are seeking attention from their parents. Every time they do something, all they want is the attention of their parents.The children felt happy if their parents give time to them.The parents must be aware to the feelings of their children.Nowadays children are different from the past generation.