Case Study

A. Personal Data
Name: Samantha Salcedo
Nickname: Sam
Age: 4 yrs old
B-day: Apr. 24, 2006
School: Brgy. 13 Day Care Center
Address: 167 P. Burgos St. Cal. City

B. Joining Process(Therapeutic Relationship)
     In my client, Sam parents help me in determining the problem. They also help to observe Sam's attitude in the school even in their house. The teacher of Sam also help me but she told her observation to the parents of some and the parents will tell me about the teacher's observation.

C. Presenting the Problem

According to her Teacher:

• She's a generous child
• She tops the class but she often misbehave
• She doesn't want to listen on their class discussion
• She disturbs her classmates when she had done her activity
• If somebody finished the activity before her, she doesn't want to continue anymore the activity she's doing

According to Sam's mother:

• Sam is very energetic and active
• She loves to play even if she haven't eat her meals

According to her Aunt Mayang

• She talks back when an elder scold her
• She doesn't use po and opo
• She's not listening when someone sermoned her

D. Time line

1st- when she was one year old, she can walk & run already. She's a fast learner, we always train her how to walk.

2nd- When she was 2 she's so very talkative, she already knew lots of words in her vocabulary at her age.

3rd-She is curious in everything, she always ask something that bothers her. She already knew how to sing the national anthem, she had also memorized the alphabet.

4th- At this year her bad attitudes came out. She became afraid of her father but not to other people.

D.2. Geno-gram

D.3. Socio gram

       

     At Home (Cubao)

At Home (Caloocan)

In School

D.4. Self Mastery

  Sam easily get distracted by something like for example she is playing and then someone talk to her and then suddenly she immediately forgot about what she was doing . She have a short attention span.

D.5. Social Relationship

    I can say Sam is selfish, when I observed her playing with Juday, she did not allow Juday to borrow her toys but when Juday bring out her own toys Juday doesn't hesitate to share it to Sam. This is not the only situation where Sam projected selfishness even in sharing with snacks too.

D.6. Actions

     Sam is a hard headed one, but I noticed that she exhibits the attitude when she is not in the the mood. If she is with her parents she acts normal.

E. Theoretical Framework

     About Sam's problem towards obeying rules Kolhberg's Moral Development under Pre-Conventional  Stage explains that when a child obeys it is because she knew the possible consequences of it. 

     Regarding in her moody attitude, she always want to get what she wanta to have. According to Eric Erickson's Psychosocial theory Stage 3 Initiative vs. Guilt that the maladaptive tendency of being intiative is ruthlessness.

F. Prognosis

       For me the main problem is her misbehaving. When she is not in the mood her sweet gestures lost. She doesn't want to listen to everybody but when his father talk she became afraid of him. Sometimes her mother will hold a hanger when she is about to command,  it is her way for Sam to follow her. Sam is "maldita" maybe because of her environment. As I observed most of her aunties have this kind of attitude and I knew that Sam is great in imitating someone that is why she has that kind of attitude.

G. Therapeuticl Plan

G.1. Knowledge Building

To identify numbers

G.2. Attitude Building 

To develop socialization

G.3. Psycho motor 

To develop her fine motor skills

H. Therapeutic Interventions

Domain                                         Events                                                Date

Cognitive                             - I used flash cards and I will             March 9, 2011

                                           let her identify the following 

                                           numbers and she needs to translate

                                           it tagalog

Affective                             -We watched "Cinderella" she will     March 10, 2011

                                          state the good characteristics that

                                          Cinderella has

Psycho motor                     -We will use dough as our clay          March11, 2011

                                          to develop her hands' skills

I. Therapeutic Progress

        We conducted the first activity in our house. I let her identify the flash cards of numbers and she easily recite each number in english but when I tell her to translate it in tagalog she find it difficult because she got confused in number3,6 and 5 she use to rumble those numbers.

        We watched the story of Cinderella in their house she became happy because she usually watch alone. While we are watching she also reacts about the movie we are watching and in the end I ask her what will happen to those people who are mean like Cinderella's steps sisters.

       We did the last activity in house at first she is enjoying molding the clay but later on she got bored and she just suddenly throw her clay. I thought that it will be hard for me to handle the situation but I still go on where I put some twist while we are molding at the same time we are singing songs.

J. Therapeutic Results

     As of now, my objective are all working with Sam. I'm now happy because she can now identify 3,6 and 5. I can also say that Sam's attention is easy to get when you will add some twist in your activity. You just need to have variety of strategies and most important is patience to the child. I have also planned to talk to the parents of my client. I'll them all my observation so that they wouldn't hurt Sam as consequence of not obeying them. 

K. Summary, Conclusion and Recommendation

    I can say that Sam is not really bad because I've noticed that she's just behaving like that when she just woke up or when she just bored. We all know that most children have a short attention span in doing things.

    I recommend that once Sam misbehave, she must remember what we had watched last time, tell her what happen to Cinderella's stepsisters so she will not do her misbehaving. What she had watched in T.V. are big factors for her affective development. While it is in the preventive stage, don't let our child watch some violent shows.   

L. Implication to Education and Assessment of Young Children
    As Global Educator we must knew what is the real reason why our students is misbehaving. We must not conclude in a part of the reason but we dig deeper so we help our help our students. We must not expose them to the things that might corrupt their minds. I believe in the saying "Prevention is better than Cure". Let us not reach our learners on their academics needs but we must also reach their emotions.