Blog 23: Senior Project Reflection

(1) Positive Statement
              What I am most proud of is my answers and the sources I had to back them up with. The reason is because a lot of people just quickly reference a source but I went into detail about the article or interview. That was something I was super confindent with.

(2) Questions to Consider

a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your block presentation (self-assessment)?

AE       P          AP       CR       NC

b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project (self-assessment)?

AE       P          AP       CR       NC

(3) What worked for you in your senior project?
            What worked really well was my independent components. They actually helped me answer my essential question. They gave me different scenarios of clients and helped me understand my best answer.

(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your senior project if you could go back in time?
             If I had a time machine I would go back and change how fast I was talking through the presentation. I felt as I was rushing through it.

(5) Finding Value
The senior project has been helpful for the future because I learned that the people around will always have a huge influence on you. They can change your entire decisions in life making. Also that you need to help clients to cope with the issues they are going through.

Blog 22: Mentorship

LIA Response to blog:

    Literal

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    Interpretive

     What the most important thing I gained was the responsibilities and hardship for a therapist. This showed me how to deal with the different clients coming in. I attended seminars with my mentor and learned that offended times a therapist will need their own therapist. Learned different coping methods. During my Mentorship time I found out about the biopsychosocial Model, which I based my answer off of.

   Applied

   This helped to answer my EQ because I not only learned about the biopsychosocial model but I    built an understanding of the therapist. My answer three is  "In order for the client to make process of control they must have a therapist with the fullest attention and well insight about a client." Going to different events and learning the importance of the role of the therapist in a client's life.

Blog 21: Exit Interview

(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers?    What is your best answer and why?

            My essential question is "What is the most important aspect of a client's support system that they need in order to control their mental health?". 

            My first answer is the most important aspect of a client support system to control their mental health is there social life. My second answer is a client with mental health issues go to therapy and having a therapist help with them through the process of control. The third answer is looking at a clients biological intake and condition.

  My best answer to my essential question is that in order for a client to control their mental health, is their social life/environment. Reason for this being my best answer because often times when a client is outside the therapy room they look for someone to help them make decsions and to look up to. This is important because this can influence a client to continue going to therapy sessions or taking their medication.

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

            The process I took to arrive to my answer was a very hard and tough. Throughout my whole mentorship I saw the stories of different clients and how the main issue was they had no one to support them and if they did have it, it had already been too late in the process to help the client. 

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?

           The problems I came to face with was staying in control hearing the terrifying stories of clients. The way I resolved this was my mentor took me to seminars that would have other therapist communicate on how to build empathy with the client not sympathy. This actually helped me in hearing stories of the clients and learn to relate on a therapist's level.

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

Armando Michael Rivera was one of the greatest source I used because he constantly helped me with articles and I interviewed him and found me Dr. Bonnie Gillaspy to do my last interview. He also helped me in the base of my essential question.

The second source that helped me was "Positive Therpay" by Martin Seligman which was an article talking about how to deal with clients going through depression. This discusses how a good supportive family/friends can help them to take antidepressants and help them get through the hole they feel they are in. This article is what first made me realized that social environment would be my first answer