Final entry

Fianl entry

This week was my last week at the internship site.
My clients and I had a final show: I displyed their works and decorated the place for them.
They were happy about their show because every person at the site were impressed by their art works.
One of clients cried because his works and final show touched his mind, he said that he wanted to show his works to his family, but his was not able to see his family. Also, autistic lady kept saying " I did it, I made all!" Every reaction made me really happy. I was almost going to cry.
I can say I had such a wonderful termination. Every client said that they would miss me and cried..


For this internship, I learned a lot of things about mental retardation and felt thankful every time because of my clients. I will definitely miss this site and my clients: their smiles and positive mind!

August 2nd, 2012

The weather for this week was extremely hot, therefore the staffs had such a hard time to care clients.
Especially, helping clinets to move was hard for me because of the weather, I think that clients also had a hard time to move. Since they are so slow when they walk and move, they sweat a lot when they go to eat, and to move to another building to have a session.

Sometimes, several clients got frustrated to walk and move. But, my supervisor knows very well how to encourage them and make them feel great. She told me that if I want to encourage each client, I need to experinece more in this field and more people. Every her comment touches my heart.

Week 5

In this week, people at the site were busy with preparing summer camp. Also, the weather was so hot; therefore people got tired so quickly. I felt tired as well for this week. Therefore, I decided to go somewhere with my family for myself. I went to beach with my family and had really good seafood. At that time, I could forget about my stress and other things in my mind and head. Last week, when I read the article about the self-care from the classmate, I thought that I needed selfcare sometime this week or next week. I usually do exercise for selfcare, but at this time, I wanted to spend a time with my family since I am in my country. Spending good time with my family refreshed me, and helped me to more focus on my internship.

For this week, I made fish with my clients with using paper plate and diverse textured paper. I wanted my clients to touch various textures. They enjoyed using diverse paper and glue them on the their fish. I felt that they were improving thier understanding and skills of using art materials because at first, they asked me lots of help to make their art works, but now, they can finish their artwork almost by themselves. Also, they seemed more concentrate on making their arts. Especially, one of my clients who has autism improved her concentration very much. My supervisor also told about her as well. I hope I can help each person in the group. Also, I am kind of sad about termination..

On Friday, I used clay with my clients. I thought that using clay's good idea to help them make use both hands. This is because since they have multiple disabilities, most of them are not able to use both hand; usually, they cannot use their left hands. When I asked them to use both hands, at first, they felt hard to use their left hands, but later they were more comfortable with using left hand.

Also, I chose the clay because I watched a video about using clay in art therapy. It says many benefits about using clays. From the vidoe, I learnt that people could get a benefit from touching clay because people can feel something when they touch the clay.
Also, people can make whatever they can imagine, this is because clay is a flexible material.

From this session, peopel could use their both hands, also they were not under pressure for drawing or painting specific things. Also, the clients said that they enjoyed touching and playing with clay.

This Friday, I used clay with my clients. Most of them are not able to use left hand because of their health issues. I thought using clay was good idea to make them use both hands. Also, I remembered that using clay was helful for everyone because they can feel the clay, and it's easier than using other materials.

I asked them to feel the clay and then to make whatever they wanted to. They enjoyed using clay.
Some of them said that using clay is their favorite because they liked the feeling of touching clay.

Thye made something they'd like to, and they added some texture from using leaves and sticks.

Last time, I did collage with the clients at the site. I chose nature material such as leaves, flowers, and so forth. First time, I gave the people have many choices for their art work. But, since they have mental retardation and other psychological disabilities such as learning disability and other multi-disabilities, they showed me uncomfortable feeling when I gave many choices and made them to choose.
Therefore, for the colllage program, I gave them just two colors to color and draw on the paper. People felt much bette with this program comapare with having many choices.
They enjoyed touch differen nature things since they were not able to move and to see outside, I thought using materials from nature. Also, people said colloge's easier than drawing and painting.

I am getting better with spending time with the clients because I got better understaing about them from having several time with them and from supervision tiem with my supervisor.

Hello everyone in Internship seminar.
My name is Eungee Youn. I am a senior, and I will be graduated on August 2012. I am an art therapy major and this is my last internship.
I am working at a care center for adults with severe disabilities in South Korea. I have already done with the orientation, and I started working last week. I am working as an helper for diverse program, also I am programing my own art therapy session with 6 disability people, especially multi disability; physical disability with mental retardation. At first time, it was hard for me to understand mental retardation people because I have not worked with people with severe retardation. However, I feel like getting better with communicating with them.

Yangmuri Maul - A care center for adults with severe disabilities

The mission of Yangmuri Maul which is my internship site is to fill a void in the lives of adults with severe disabilities and other developmental and behavioral disabilities by providing diverse program such as art therapy, education programs, recreational programs, and other therapies designed and staffed to address their needs. The mission is accomplished by establishing care centers that offer a variety of group and individual activities to provide these people with the help they need to thrive – the opportunity to improve skill levels, build confidence, participate in activities that need to socialize with people.

*I posted this information on 6.25.2012 on my google blog. I am posting this again.