Becoming a Special Care Counsellor

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Joanie Vezina

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Word count: 1051

Choice count: 20

Section count: 14

Image count: 14

Error count: 0

Field Related Analysis

Law : 26 matches

(answer, child, children, director, family, gift, house, minutes, offer, opinion, parent, private, process, receiving, relief)

Education : 25 matches

(activity, choice, course, courses, first, head, learn, private, school, semester)

Construction and Civil Engineering : 16 matches

(activity, cant, drawing, fault, garbage, protection)

Target Structure: (2 matches)

internship (2 matches)

overtime (1 match)

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Becoming a Special Care Counsellor

The first internship.

It’s your third semester in Special Care Counselling and you need to do an internship. You’re really don’t know with witch customer you want to do it. At the last second you choose to do it with?

Choice 1 : Day-care

Choice 2 : Elders

Which do you choose

Day-care.

You choose to do your internship in a day-care. It’s normal, you always love kids. After, three weeks you have developed a strong connection with one of the kids in your group. One day, you realise that he seem sad, and he plays alone. You ask him if you can play with him. He said yes. Now he wants to play with?

Choice 1 : Barbie

Choice 2 : Drawing

Kid

You decide to play with Barbie.

You play Barbie with this sweet little boy. You play together for 10 minutes. At some point, the boy gave you a doll. He said: she’s mad. You ask: what does she do when she’s mad? The boy respond,  " when she’s mad, she punches everyone." At this moment, you ask him, " who else throw punch when they’re mad? " He answered,  " when dad is mad he punches my mother, my brother and I. " What do you do?

Choice 1 : You decide to call child protection

Choice 2 : You confront the dad

Barbie

You decide to call child protection.

The child protection comes to see you and ask about the situation. You explain to someone everything that happen. The child protection told you that it’s not the first time that they heard about this family and at this point they need to put the kids into foster care. You and your boyfriend are a foster family. Do you offer to take the kids?

Choice 1 : You offer yourself

Choice 2 : You say nothing

Foster family

You offer yourself.

The lady seems relief about your offer. You know the children, and you have a good relationship with them. You tell the kid that they are gonna spend the night at your house they are really excited. It’s been 5 years that this happened, and you are now in the process to adopt them.

Choice 1 : The end

Love

You choose to do a drawing.

You sat beside the kid and both starts your drawing. During all the activity you speak with the child, and he seems very happy to draw. At a moment you look at the drawing that he’s doing, and you realise that he is very talented. You ask him if you can have is drawing because you think it’s really pretty. He said yes and give it to you. After, the long day at work you go see one of your best friends. She’s a prestigious art school director. You show her the drawing. What’s her reaction?

Choice 1 : She’s in complete shock about the talent of the kid

Choice 2 : She doesn’t care at all

Drawing

You confront the dad.

At four o’clock you are burning with rage. You know exactly what you are going to tell to the dad kids. You have practice during your break, and you are ready. You play with the kid, and you see the dad at the door. What do you do?

Choice 1 : You froze

Choice 2 : You tell him everything you want to say

Angry

You froze.

When, you see the dad you froze! Everything you have practice is now gone. You look at the dad, and he asks how was the day. You answer him that his kid has a great day, and that he’s a very special kid. The day is now over. You fell bad about freezing but convince yourself that the nex time that the kid is gonna say thing like that to you you’re going confront his dad.

Choice 1 : The end

You say nothing.

You think about propose yourself, but you don’t want to do it. You didn’t ask your boyfriend, and you didn’t want him to get mad at you for taking kid without asking him first. You see the kid crying when he learns that he need to go into foster care. You feel bad about it. You feel that it’s your fault. He knows you. You feel like you should have proposed yourself.

Choice 1 : You offer yourself.

You confront the dad.

When you see the dad you ask him if you can speak with him in private. He doesn’t mind, and you both go in the corridor. At this moment you exploded. You tell him that you know everything and that he’s a piece of garbage for doing this. When you have finish you see your boss at the end of the corridor! She asks you to come see her. She fires you because you can’t speak to parent like that even when they beat their child.

Choice 1 : The end

She’s in complete shock.

Your friend is in complete shock about the kid talent. She can’t believe that he’s this good for is age. She tells you that she’s already doing overtime this week, but she really wants to meet the kid parent to speak to them about the gift that their child have.

Choice 1 : You tell the parents

Meeting

You tell the parents.

The next day, when you see the kid mom you tell her everything your friend tell you. You gave her the business card. She’s really happy about it. The next day you learn that the kid is now receiving special courses by your friend.

Choice 1 : The end

She doesn’t care.

When you go show her the drawing she looks at you like you have three head! She asks you what’s special about this drawing. You can believe what you hear. You see so much potential in this kid. You don’t understand how she cannot see it. You tell yourself that she just have been having a bad day. You still see an extreme potential with this kid.

Choice 1 : You tell the parents

You tell the parents.

When you see the mom the next morning you tell her your opinion! You tell her that her kid is really talented and that he should go take special course for is gift.

Choice 1 : The end