Dr. J

The School Psychologist Corner

Dr. J has been a School Psychologist in the Twin Rivers USD for the past 23 years. My school office hours currently are 8 am - 4 pm. I enjoy being a school psychologist, working with students, parents, teachers, administrators, as well as being the Highlands High School Golf coach for the past 12 years. I am a Licensed Educational Psychologist and work with private clients; most often consulting with Alta California Regional Center care-homes. My philosophical approach is that every individual has to develop, maintain, and improve upon two distinct relationships; primarily one with themselves and then secondarily, one with others. However, the primary foundational relationship development has to be with one's self. My philosophical approach is follows the 4 C's of trust. I am available to expand those thoughts , however, during the Corona-virus medical crisis, currently we can only carry an on-going discussions by contact at my district email at homer.johnson@twinriversusd.org.

Positive things happen to positive people!

My self-care by running every morning.

My self-care by playing golf.

My self-care by taking yearly vacations to Hawaii

My self-care of purchasing annual Disneyland Passes

Relationship with Self

A healthy and stable self-relationship is one’s ability to value self as a unique person and embrace their own strengths and weaknesses in order to develop self-knowledge to care for their own individual needs, feeling of identity, self-awareness, self-direction, self-evaluation, self-interests, and personal goals (purpose in life).

· The relationship with self is a perception of an individual’s sense-of-self that comprises a collection of beliefs, morals, expectations, self-imposed boundaries, values, and ultimately establishes one’s choices made around their purpose in life.

· Ultimately, the individual has to take 100% responsibility for his or her own thinking, feelings, and reactions.

· Thus, the relational self is an individual’s self-perspective that includes various judgments developed around their reflective practices in regards to their own distinguishing characteristics of past, present, and future self, interactions with others, and self-identity to discover the concept of “Who I am.”

Intellectual property of Dr. Homer H. Johnson, Jr. Ed. D.

Relationship with Others

According to Maslow’s Hierarchy Motivation of Needs, the desire to belong is acknowledged as innately ingrained. Interpersonal skills are vital when trying to develop a relationship with another person.

· Healthy relationships are built on a foundation of secure attachments, developed in the context of social and/or cultural commitments which are created as a result of involvement with others.

· For that reason, positive collective engagements meeting the social and/or cultural relational expectations that support mutual commitments have the propensity to develop and grow progressively entrenched relationships, as group members perceive they are experiencing relational trust.

· Whereas when one or more people in the relationship grow into interpersonal dissatisfaction, decrease their communication, and avoid self-disclosure, the spiraling deterioration continues to worsen as individual’s drift apart by a loss of trust, betrayal, and a discernment of relational mistrust, eventually terminates the relationship.

Intellectual property of Dr. Homer H. Johnson, Jr. Ed. D.