teacher Applied Psychology
PCVOA Plantijn Hogeschool (bachelor degree)
Total years of experience :44 years, 4 Months
1996 - present working as teacher Applied Psychology at Bachelor level.
• responsible for summative- and process evaluation
TARGET GROUP: comprehensive secondary education
second and third grade (9th-12th)
MAIN DUTIES:
- social sciences teacher
- summative and process evaluation
- supervisor in making the mandatory students final paper project in order to obtain their degrees
• PERIOD: 1999-2011: Highschool teacher in different grades; the princples and all sort of subjects concerning psychology and sociology.
Department Human Sciences.
Principle: Miss Bettina Devos. Phone: +3236601300, email: ka.kapellen@g-o.be
Willing to relocate to the UAE.
Experience in special education 1991 - 1996
• assignments as a special needs teacher in second and third
grade (9-12)
• observation or at request of the parents
• The implementation by differentiation of new learning strategies
• dealing with problem behavior in children and young adolescents
TARGET GROUP: special needs (9th-12th)
• students with physical disabilities and moderate mental
disablity
• autistic students
Residential treatment care providing individualized attention and treatment plans (ITP) created for children and teens who have a variety of neurological, social, psychological, and emotional challenges along with concurrent behavioral difficulties, school problems and family dysfunction.
TARGET GROUP:
- Children and young adolescents, age ranging from 5 to 15 years, often coming from dysfunctional families with a background of deprivation, abandonment, having maladaptive behavior patterns behavioral and emotional problems, ADHD/ADD and sometimes a mild mental disability.
MAIN DUTIES:
- in collabaration and consultation with the child psychiatrist refining the differential diagnoses on the basis of behavioral observations and ensuring the implementation of the tailored ITP with the team members
- screening and making behavioral assessments
- empowered to carry out mindfulness therapy based upon empathy, equanimity and cognitive therapy
- individual counseling the children and their parents from a contextual vision
- reducing the frequency or preventing old ingrained behavior patterns by breaking the chain of habit.
- rearranging the environment to promoting the shift from mitigating to established
- decision-making processes in cooperation with the general management and other multidisciplinary services
In 1993 Free University of Brussels: credential needed to be a teacher in psychology, education and social sciences and education. With this credential the required teacher skills were obtained. This also provides access to teach at lower levels.
In 1977 Free University of Brussels: Master in Special Education. During the first two years we often had lectures together with the psychology students.