April on a second view!

Monthly meeting (March) with the parents to elect a new president and talk about further plans to get our own premises!The participation differs from month to month, and it is not unusual to just see a few faces on a regular base!



My therapies are much less now than in the first 3 periods of my internship, so i use the chance next to fulfill all the study work until the end of May, and to meet the parents one by one as well as in partner sessions during the weekends.
I am pretty happy about the process in it, and have experienced that most of my clients and their parents are quiet grateful and open for reunions concerning their quality of living together. A lot of people do never get the chance to afford or organize psychological help and there are not many therapist and other professionals willing to come in the “Barrio” (city-area) and work on a voluntary base.
There for I am as well very glad it is possible to involve the psychologist of the project Germania, to join my on her duty days and speak with them, after I made sure myself (alone) that it is not just ok but the parents understand the necessary step of getting in contact with her, to talk more specified about their problems, misuse and needs.

By organizing it I try to get the children in as well a bit later (after 3 to 4 meetings), to let the parents hear and see the very own wishes of their kids for the future and what is keeping them away in develop and grow up in a safe environment. By giving a bit of a “neutral” conversation leader we have the chance to create a new forum in which there are no room for searching the guilty one, but more for listening and gaining more understanding in what the family members need inside and missing during the former development.

My schedule in meeting the parents are more or less regular depending on their duties and work times, which are quiet variable from family to family. I try to get more into their every-day life and accompany them first in tasks and housekeeping before I ask individually to come in for a session during the project time or during the weekends with their husband.

At the stage I see 3 of the clients parents during my week, and I try to see them at least 1 and a half hours to give enough space in getting used to me, the new situation and to talk with their partner about meeting me than later with the two of them and of course with the psychologist. Usually I take one appointment on Saturdays and the rest during the week. All the 3 of them are parents of children I finished my therapy in the end of April, and two of them are raising their children alone, so I concentrate on just one person to stabilize the communication between mother and child. The other parents (not married but partner for 4 years, both did bring children inside the relation ship and they live with 8 people in a very small house with little money and no help outside the projects support) do have problems with getting along and not using violence inside the house.

I am exited how the process will go on, and in what way I can improve and help out the families in the interest of my former clients. For now the contact is built and the understanding for therapy and psychological accompany grows in their minds and heads.

Especially here in “Santa Maria” I have to be very careful to treat this parents and introduce them to my work field, so that they feel more than comfortable to open up to me and Germania. I decided not to join the psychological conversations in the first place, to not overwhelm them but still do prepare drama activities the psychologist can use to easy up the beginning of such a session, and to use the media drama to tell each other wishes, needs and disappointment out of a different perspectives (not judging or searching for the guilty one in the relation, but more to show the other one better why the person acts this or that way).