Establishing career goals can be essential as they may serve as milestones that lead to a successful career. Thus, I have created several career goals to concentrate my focus and enable me to maintain a structured plan. Ultimately, I aspire to have a career as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) to enrich the lives of children with developmental disabilities. Before I can obtain this goal, many objectives will need to be completed. For instance, one career goal that I have is to become a Registered Behavior Technician (RBT). I have chosen this initial goal as it provides hands-on experience with the clients. Additionally, possessing this certificate will demonstrate competency and expand internship opportunities. Another goal of mine …show more content…
While I know I desire a career as a BCBA, I am aware of the option to become a Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst (BCaBA). I am also aware of various organizations that utilize BCBAs. For instance, The Scott Center for Autism Treatment on the Florida Tech campus is an ideal option to combine both in-class and hands-on experience in the field of ABA. Other local options that provide treatment include Kaleidoscope Interventions and its affiliated Puzzle Box Academy. While many options exist locally, Orlando also provides a variety of opportunities such as Nemours, Quest Kids Academy, and Lodestone …show more content…
While I have researched the career extensively, there are still things to consider. For example, while the Fast Track program appears to be ideal, a better option might be to complete my bachelor’s degree and work with clients for an extended period. Another choice I am currently debating is which organization to contact (for volunteer and internship opportunities). While I’ll strive to meet their needs, I also would like to find an organization that provides a variety of experiences. Although there are many great options for centers that treat developmental disabilities, I hope to select one that best matches my goals and reinforces my career choice. The three most important career values to me from the SIGI values are contribution to society, leadership, and security. Contribution to society is important as I desire to have an impact on the society in a positive way. Helping children with developmental disabilities allows me this opportunity as I can partake in intervention treatments that may facilitate improvement and change, thus leading the individuals to expanded opportunities in school and future
P. Values are important and lifetime beliefs that greatly influence our behavior and attitude (SPSY 185, 2016). “NADSP (National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals) defines values as a professional who have values, skills and knowledge that constitute a unique and important profession” (NADSP Code of ethics, 2016). “As a DSP it is very important to examine one’s own values and attitudes as well as how they might factor in to the relationship with the individual that they are supporting” (SPSY 287, 2016 p: 19). “Our values and attitudes are extremely important factors given the type of work that is required in the human service field” (SPSY 287, 2016 p: 19). Professionals work closely with individuals to value them and spending time with individual. Therefore, it is the best way to learn about individual values and beliefs. Often professionals have hard time to label people, we as a DSP’s must think that the people who we are supporting are same as “we”. Being a successful DSP’s, we must need to have greater knowledge and positive influence when it comes to help people with disabilities. To become successful, we must need to look for changes in people’ lives and their past experience by asking them or by being empathy. There has not been a lot of changes in people with disabilities lives so as a DSP’s professional, we believe that we need to bring out our skills, abilities and
Career Cruising is an informational website and available at participating schools, public libraries, and employment agencies across North America. This program is intended to direct individuals towards appropriate career choices based on specific criteria, such as education, training and previous experience. Individuals can find this information database self-directed, user friendly and rewarding while presenting a variety of options to meet their personal needs. Not only does it offer assistance for the perspective individual in career development, but also on SAT/ACT preparation, online study guides, interview strategies and seminars by promoting growth and effective career opportunities.
The major areas of my values and ethics can be summarized in six words: excellence, personal integrity, responsibility, ambition, accountability, and determination. Excellence guides me when setting targets in all my undertakings; I normally strive to achieve my best. Personal integrity and accountability enable me to make sound judgments to avoid engaging in actions that will hurt me and/or other people around me. Responsibility is important to me as it enables me to identify the part I need to play in my family, at the workplace, and in the community. Lastly, ambition and determination are applicable in providing me with the momentum needed to ensure that all my initiatives and tasks are done to completion.
Even though the salary is livable and path of college is straightforward, this career is worthwhile simply because I would be helping people overcome obstacles and improve their quality of life. I aspire to make a difference in someone’s life, and recreational therapy allows me to do that every day for a living. This research project has opened my eyes and lead me to a career that I didn’t know about before, but now seems like a perfect fit for me. It is reassuring to know that I can make a good choice on such a big decision making time of my life. Throughout the rest of my high school journey and as I transition into college, I hope that I continue to take the steps needed pursue a career as Recreational
The professional position I aim to obtain next is Behavioral Health Worker. A Behavioral Health Worker in most cases will implement specific school based behavioral plans, track measurable objectives, and communicate progress through notes, reports and supervision. As a general overview Behavioral Health workers perform these task as key roles and responsibilities. Behavioral Health Worker also provides behavior management support, emotional support and psychological rehabilitative activities to children and adolescents within a wide range of disabilities. They provide interventions to a children or adolescents at schools when the behavior without intervention would require a more restrictive treatment or education setting. Behavioral Health Workers assists teacher and or unique caregiver with implementation of behavioral plans. Other functions of this position are supervise/monitor activities of child/adolescent in accordance with the behavioral plan with the emphasis on prevention rather than intervention and prevent crisis situation however when necessary deescalate children in crisis.
With regards to my academic and professional development, I am desiring a Ph.D. program that combines research and teaching skills in rehabilitation sciences, which is one aspect that attracted me to the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Rehabilitation Science Ph.D. program. Generally, your program’s objectives align well with the curriculum I am looking for in a terminal degree. In specific, I have three main goals for completing this degree. First, I want to have the ability to conduct research independently as much as possible. From a personal prospective, a successful researcher should be able to process a research regardless of the available resources. If a researcher was trained to do so, he or she will contribute in changing the world with their research no matter where they end up at. The reason I am enthusiastic about research is that I want to be a part of a healthy community and I want to
Having visited the ABC facility in Stockton, read their pamphlets and visited their website, I would refer parents with Autistic children to their facilities. Though the need for insurance to cover the cost of this specialized care, would seem to limit, in general, the availability of providing needed care to the more impoverished members of the local area. Sadly, this limitation feels like an injustice.
I will discuss the National Career Development Guidelines and will address each section of the guidelines in terms of its importance in career counseling. As well, I will critique an activity that is used in elementary school setting against the guidelines to compare if the activity meets the standards.
Occupational therapy is the career that I chose as my major and to do my research
Running into barriers while attempting to locate and navigate services for developmental disabilities are not because you don't want to help your child, or don't care - chances are, you are facing a wide rage of emotions. Some barriers that take an emotiona...
During my service I hope to gain a lot of knowledge in working with those who have all different kinds of disabilities. I have worked with people with disabilities and special needs before, but I would like to be able to better my understanding and knowledge in this field, and be able to be as effective as I can in helping and serving these people. I want to gain more patience, knowing that it will take more time and patience to work with them sometimes. I want to take time understanding and giving each individual my full attention. I want to better my communication skills, whatever that may look like, and be able to feel completely comfortable with each person. I know depending on the person, they can be more sensitive, so I want to be able
I was in a remote village in the Peruvian Andes conducting art therapy with prisoners when I realized this was the most meaningful experience of my life, and it should not be. The study and practice of psychology are the place where my humanitarian and intellectual interests align. I am applying to the clinical psychology program to fulfil the training I need to continue to make meaningful contributions to society and also contribute to the field of psychology through research. A family illness that is now happily behind me delayed me from doing so sooner.
One of the best ways to follow a successful path is to set goals for yourself. They are important to keep yourself on task and to get to a desired point of self fulfillment. The issue can be how to achieve goals in a successful manner. The issue is "Although people may desire or intend to attain some outcome, they are not committed to that as a goal until they are willing to invest affect, cognition, and behavior in attaining it" (Traci Mann, 2013). This is why it is important to have a set path on how to accomplish important goals. I have chosen three goals that I want to accomplish to demonstrate a Process known as SMART, to help accomplish them. There goals are that I want to finally earn a college degree(personal), I want to make it into the honor society while earning my degree(academic), and I want to earn my degree in order to contribute to Autism research(professional). All of these goals range in the amount of time it will take to accomplish them. Some are long term, but I can still use the SMART goal process in order to achieve them. The SMART steps to follow are:
Classroom management is one of the most essential skills to becoming an effective classroom teacher. Teachers who possess the ability to manage their classroom are able to create an environment where learning is the focus (Burden & Cooper, 2004). Although teachers may be well prepared and skilled with classroom management, at some point in time they will encounter a student or students whose behavior hovers authority and the functioning of the class. There is no simple way to deal with these difficult situations, but there are strategies to help. The first step is to identify the purpose of the behavior. A Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA), is a systematic set of strategies that are used to determine the underlying function or purpose of a behavior so that an effective intervention plan can be developed (NPDC, 2014).
I am writing to bring you up to date on the progress that I have made on my educational goals, career goals, goals completed, goals in progress, fie year goals and action steps, ten year goals and actions steps, and potential obstacles to achieving goals. I am confident you will find the results of the report useful for evaluating the progress of my educational and career goals.