Introduction
This report section highlights the impacts, professional and personal development, logistical challenges, and recommendations derived from the field studies. The report highlights the activities conducted throughout 2021 based on the internal referrals’ interventions, the capacity-building programs, and the collaborations within various agencies. The qualitative nature of the report gives an in-depth analysis of the outcomes of the programs and how such results affect practice. Moreover, the understanding derived from the analysis provides more insights into what future professionals and relevant organizations can adopt to address the issues determined from the study period. Consequently, the corrective actions proposed from the outcomes should help address some of the challenges existing in society from both the professional and consumer perspectives.
Measuring Impact
Psychological measurement mainly intends to validly determine the differences between individuals and communities regarding psychological qualities, including personality and attitudes. It focuses on designing, developing, and testing various tools, ensuring that the qualities measured are valid and valuable for psychological determinations. Some of the specific attributes measured include cognitive abilities, emotions, knowledge, opinions, and personality. It uses scales to measure these variables, making it easier to determine where each quality measured falls. The assessments are conducted in different situations and at other times, such as during interviews for job positions, post-traumatic events, or pre-ceremonial occasions. The type of examination used may largely depend on the psychologist testing the variables or the exact outcome intended for the study. According to Ando et al. (2019), observational techniques and behavior coding are among the most valuable techniques used in psychological measurement. Consequently, tests conducted in line with the proposed methods lead to valid psychological tests.
In this study, observational methods were utilized to understand each aspect under investigation. The adopted technique enabled the ease of comparing different monitoring outcomes regarding how each participant responded to the intervention given. This helped in understanding crucial information about the participants, making it possible to know their behavior in a particular situation. The main disadvantage of the method adopted in this study was that it was not straightforward to measure how the interventions offered had a significant impact on the children’s behavior on a long-term basis since the institutions did not provide an extended period for the examination (Ando et al., 2019). Moreover, the data collected were not sufficient and consistent throughout the investigation. On the contrary, the study was able to understand significant changes in the emotional states and mood of the children when the observations and the tests ended. The collaboration between various agencies involved in childcare resulted in a positive influence on the behavior of the children as the children observed indicated changed attitudes and became more disciplined at the end of the assessment, compared to the start of the tests.
Professional/ Personal Development
The observation of the children and the interventions given have significantly impacted my personal and professional development. The children under my observation possess certain traits, which made them unpredictable to their parents and teachers. This revealed that the children were experiencing different kinds of emotionally disturbing issues they were facing in society. I was expected to assess how the surrounding of the children works, identify what could be resulting in their behaviors, and offer possible solutions that could help them change. These set goals were crucial for me because they compelled me to find the root causes for the various problems the children experienced, which made them react the way they did. I was also expected to understand the best psychological assessments to give the best outcome to the children’s parents.
My observations revealed that some children suffer from direct attacks from their parents and guardians. Parents should show care and support to their children, but this was not the case among the children under my observation. I found out that most children do not believe in themselves because they have been told so by their fathers, mothers, and siblings. Since the parents wanted solutions for their children’s behavior, it reveals that the parents were unaware of how their words or behavior observable by the children could affect their minors’ conduct. This further revealed that the parents did not fully report what happened before the children developed the undesirable behavior or responded to it.
Children are beings with emotions and desires, which require progressive interventions. Most parents deny their children the fundamental rights to experience some of their desires, such as playing with their peers, watching some content, or getting specific goods they need. Failing to fulfill these desires among children makes them feel neglected or unloved by their parents and guardians. Consequently, they begin developing behaviors that tend to rebel against their seniors or become violent. Moreover, some children suffered physical harm from their guardians or parents or were harmed due to their parental neglect. For example, some children reported they were raped, had low self-esteem, and hated others because of their experience. Since the children fear sharing such horrible acts against them, they express their frustrations in other ways that parents do not understand. This makes parents begin being on the defensive side and becomes victims of their children’s behavior, further revealing that the parents did not wish to acknowledge their significant contribution to their children’s conduct.
Dealing With Logistical Challenges
The observation over the 2021 period mainly assessed every referral regarding the psychological issues the children faced. One of the main challenges in giving appropriate interventions among the children was that most parents did not provide accurate information regarding how they influenced their children’s behavior or responded to the conduct. Some children also reserved their sentiments or were too secretive, making it more challenging to understand their issues in society. The necessary interventions were given based on the information collected from the interviewees and observations made within the study period.
Recommendations
The findings above reveal that psychological problems affecting children result from parents, peers, and the system. Therefore, the best methods to address the challenges affecting children’s behavior should anchor on giving appropriate information to the children, the parents, teachers, and any other person interacting with children in any other way. The parents should be taught the psychological interventions they need when their children express themselves in specific ways. Children should be counseled on how to express themselves and understand why certain restrictions can be imposed, primarily because of their safety. There is a need for policy formulation so that everyone handling the children, apart from the parents, should have some training on child psychology and related information.
Conclusion
The study period reveals that children are experiencing emotional distress from some inhumane acts against them in the past. The children who are victims of rape find it difficult to share what they experienced and mostly tend to reserve themselves and be quiet. Other observations include neglect faced by the children, which led to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) personality among the children. All these are not clinical issues; hence they require behavioral interventions from the children’s office and the parents.
Reference
Ando, A., Pignolo, C., Viglione, D. J., Zennaro, A., Cristofanelli, S., & Ferro, L. (2019). Assessing the personality profile with ADHD characteristics using the Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS). Journal of Child and Family Studies, 28(5), 1196-1206.