Personal Statement For Catcher In The Rye

I’m Jennifer Viviano and I am working on my graduate degree in English at Suny Oneonta. I already have my associates’ degree in Liberal Arts from Suny Morrisville. I’m currently applying for your program in School Counseling; I had always planned to go into some form of social work for my masters. When people find out I’m getting my degree in English they assume I’m going to be a teacher, and never imagine that I want to go into social work. To me however the transition makes perfect sense. My degree in English has taught me about a rage of behavioral health, through characters in different novels. I learned about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) through The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield. I’ve read a wide rage of novel involving
I became fascinated in adolescent development after taking an entire class on it. The class taught me a lot of the explanations to why I felt the way I did throughout my own adolescents. Adolescents are at a point in life where the brain has developed fully emotionally, but rationally their brain is not established. So it does not matter how smart the adolescent is they are ruled by their emotions, this is why I want to be there to help them. I want to be a professional person outside of the home that adolescents can come to talk
I spent most of my time in my dorm sitting with my door open so residents would feel comfortable enough to come in and talk with me. I helped my residents however I could rather it meant looking over papers, being a shoulder to cry on, or calling someone for professional help. I also was a New Visions Law student, while I was in high school, and through the program I was allowed to intern in a range of law departments. One of which was the Department of Social Services where I was able to meet some of the children living in the foster system. It broke my heart to hear some of the stories that these children had to tell, some of which were only six years old. When I become a school counselor there are going to be foster children attending school that I will have the ability to work with. I also attended Chenango County drug and alcohol court, where I met teens that had fallen into bad habits. I cannot give specifics of what I witnessed, but what I can say is that the experience left me appreciative for my life. Students are going to come into my office with all different types of behavioral health, so being able to learn more about how to help them is of great interest to