CASE STUDY

A.    PERSONAL DATA SUMMARY

Name of the Child:  Carmelo Anthony A. Villanueva

Nickname of the Child:  Ton-Ton

Gender:  Male

Birthday:  June 17 2005

Place of Birth:  Caloocan

Age:  5 years old

Address:  Brgy.178 Pechayan St. Camarin Caloocan City

Parent

Mother

                Name:                 Jazell A. Villanueva     

               

    Age:                     26         

               

   Citizenship:        Filipino

               

    Religion:             Roman Catholic

               

    Occupation:        Housewife

               

Father

    Name:                   Bernard D. Villanueva

    Age:                       27                              

               

    Citizenship:         Filipino

               

    Religion:               Roman Catholic

               

    Occupation:          Businessman

      Birth Order:  First (Only Child)

       

 School

   Name:                      Mandex Tutorial Learning Center

   School Address:      San Isidro Purok IV Camarin Caloocan City

   Grade Level:           Kinder II

B.  THE JOINING PROCESS

I have first met Ton-Ton, as he was being called by his family and his peers, when he was just on his two years of age.  He is a nephew of my friend whom he lives with in the same house.  I usually have bonding time with Ton-Ton as I come there, in their house, to visit my friend.  I do treat Ton-Ton as my little brother and I do know him just as how his family knows him too.  I found it easy to conduct the study because I know how to deal well with the child.  Despite of this closeness that I have with Ton-Ton, I made it sure that I will not be bias and be very objective about the result.  The family as well, whom the one who recommends the child was cleared about the objective and the purpose of the study and so they are into the accuracy of the study that I will be conducting.

The people involved in the study are Ton-Ton’s parents, his grandmother (Lilybeth D. Villanueva), his uncles (Sandy, and Francis Villanueva), his teacher in the school, and his peers (Sara and Popoy).  Although Ton-Ton is my first choice to be my client, my friend, which is his Uncle, is the one who really helped me out to made Ton- Ton’s parent let their child to be part of the study.

C.     PRESENTING THE PROBLEM

To present the problem, I prefer to ask Ton-Ton’s parents, his teacher, grandmother (Lilybeth), his uncle (Sandy) and his peers (Sara and Popoy) about him as the sources.

According to Ton-Ton’s mother, the child often observed to be so playful and sometimes inattentive especially when he is being asked to do something.  He is easily distracted and often may not seem to listen.  They were also being asked to go to his school by the teacher because of Ton-Ton’s misbehaving.   

His uncle said that every time that he is playing with Ton-Ton, he observed that the child cannot wait for his turn.  He always wants to be the first one to have the chance to play a toy or he always wants to make a try on the game even though he had his tries on it already.   Ton-Ton usually exclaims, “ako ulit… ako naman”, though somebody is using or playing it.

Based on his grandmother, if Ton-Ton is out (even inside the house), he used to run and shout that tend to disturb everybody even other children that plays.  If he is watching, he get easily bored from the show and what he will do is leave the living room and do something else.

When the father is being asked about his child, he said “ay yan? Hyper na bata!”.  Ton-Ton, aside from his nickname, he is also being called as “hyper”, short for the word Hyperactive.  According to the father, Ton-Ton usually leaves any activity that he is already engaged with, like doing his assignments or keeping his toys to run to the window or opening the cabinets without being aware of why he does it.   When he is angry, he shouts or strikes out before he can be offered an explanation.  Sometimes, he cannot notice that he is being called by his mother or by the others already because of being too busy in doing many things like running or climbing up chairs and furniture.
When I asked Ton-Ton’s teacher she said that she observed that Ton-Ton, aside from how his parents and relatives described the child, he has difficulty in concepts such as left and right.  He often performs repetitive behaviors like pencil tapping on his table while listening to the teacher, arms swinging while falling in the line and even finger tapping.  He finds it hard to make strokes with pencil longer than they meant to be and cannot use pencil well as well.

A.     PSYCHOLOGICAL HISTORY

D1.  Time line

June 17 2007: According to the mother, it was on Ton-Ton’s second birthday when they had a very big celebration.  They decided to have Spiderman theme since it was Ton-Ton’s favorite character.  Ton-Ton that day was very happy and enjoyed the gifts given by his visitors.  When Ton-Ton is being asked about his “Spiderman Party”, he immediately went to the center table where the albums are placed then he get the album of his birthday celebration and excitingly shared what he can remember about that day.  Although he cannot remember who those in the pictures are, he knows that it was his birthday that time.

December 25 2007: The whole family celebrated their second Christmas in Baguio City.  Since it was Ton-Ton’s first time to be at Baguio, he had fever for 2 days.

January 1 2008: It was Ton-Ton’s first time to celebrate at her grandmother’s house (mother’s side).  At first he was too shy to talk but then later on as he saw the gifts for him, he started too roomed around.

March 13 2008: Ton-Ton’s first time to go and see airplanes in the airport happened when his grandfather has to go abroad to work.  He was very happy that time and so naughty that he want to explore the place alone.

August 2008: the child got minor burns when, according to her mother, she forgot to off the candlelight in their sari-sari store.  Ton-Ton played it and accidentally burned its left shoulder.  Although it was a minor burn, they decided to bring Ton-Ton to the hospital.  It was also in the same month, right after Ton-Ton got home from the hospital, when Ton-Ton saw his parents fighting.  His mother stated that Ton-Ton screamed aloud when he saw his father threw the flower vase to the door.

June 8 2009:  Ton-Ton was enrolled as kinder at Mandex Tutorial Learning Center.  Weeks after, his parents were called by his teacher because of kicking his classmate.  His father taught Ton-Ton to say sorry for what he did in front of his classmate as his punishment and promise not to do it again, told by the mother.

March 28 2010: on their graduation day, Ton-Ton received ribbons: one for best in artworks and the other one are for best in music. He was awarded as best in counting. He also got tokens from his friends Sara and Popoy.

June 8 2010: Ton-Ton was enrolled in Kinder 2 at the same school.  He needs to be enrolled in kinder as what his parents requested and also the will of his grandmother.  On the first two weeks of the class, his parents were called because Ton-Ton does not participate in the class.  He does not listen to the teacher and wants to always explore around the room.

June 17 2010: he received a gift from his Lolo abroad (bicycle) for his birthday.  Ton-Ton was very eager to play with it and tend to ignore his visitors.

September 23 2010: according to his mother, they were called by the teacher because Ton-Ton had punched his two girl classmates during the play time.  Based on the teacher, when Ton-Ton was not able to play in the see-saw because the two girls were there, he punched them to their faces.

January 3 2011: as what his mother stated, Ton-Ton was admitted in the hospital because of the foods he ate.  Despite of telling Ton-Ton not to eat the spaghetti on the table, the child still eat it.  

     


    D2.  Geno gram

           



    D3.  Sociogram

       AT HOME

                        

On this diagram, it shows that Ton-Ton and his parents are cliques.  They all like each other.  Ton-Ton is liked by his Tito Sandy but then he was not one of Ton-Ton’s choices, it was a one way choice by his Tito Sandy. His mother and his Tito are mutual choice they both choose each other. Ton-Ton’s Lola, his father and he are also cliques.

This diagram was made with the family members by which Ton-Ton lives with.