Blog 16: Answer 2

1. What is your EQ?

What is the best way for a psychologist and parents to collaborate about the treatment of a teenage patient?

2. What is your first answer?

The best way for a psychologist and parents to collaborate about the treatment of a teenage patient is to first of all be understanding. The teen is facing something something in their lives that is affecting them in various ways. It is imporant to evoke the teens prespective on the situation so that they have a say in their treatment.

3. What is your second answer?

The best way for a psychologist and parents to collaborate about the treatmet of a teenage patient is for the parents to be educated about how the teenage brain works. It is obvious that a teenage brain is not fully developed. The brain appear to undergo a growth spurt of its own, and this changing brain may in part explain why teengers turn into a walking army of emotional loose cannons

4. List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

1. The problem the teen is undegoing is mental therefore the parent should be able to know why the brian is working the way it does. 
2. For comparison's sake, think of the teenage brain as an entertainment center that hasn't been fully hooked up. There are loose wires, so that the speaker system isn't working with the DVD player, which in turn hasn't been formatted to work with the television yet.
3. Scientists have found is that teenagers experience a wealth of growth in synapses during adolescence.

5. What printed source best supports your answer?

http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/teenage-brain1.htm

6. What other source supports your answer? 

The psychologist that I interviewed helped the what scources I should search within to find this answer. 

7. Tie this together with a concluding though.

Overall I still believe me first answer is stronger that my second one. The second one has to do more with the knowledge the parent should have therefore the treatment can work better. 

Blog 14: Independent Component 1

a.) I, Susie Pinon, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 33 hours of work.

b.) The scources that helped me where:
NREPP Evidence- Based Therapy (website)
Tic-City Mental Wellness Center
Mentor, Michelle Mejia

c.) Updated

d.) For my independent component, other than doing additonal hours with my mentor and her colleagues, I had the chance to help her run a class with adults who suffered with schizophrenia. Even though I am basing more on teenagers, I got to experience people who have had to live with this mental illness longer.

Interpretive

I am not allowed to take pictures of the classes going on due to confidencial issues with the teens/adults at the center but the top picture is the room where most teens meet up. We usually have tables set up so they can do homework or have a chat with one of the psychologist/counselers. We also have a ping pong table so that we can play after a stressful day or session. The bottom picture is of the outside the the front office of the wellness center, More adults go into this office. 

Applied

Spending more time around my mentor and mentorship helped me have more of a connection with psyhology. It gave me more insite on teenagers, even though I am a teenager I got to experince teens that are more troubled and the ways they face them. I had more chances to ask my mentor why she treats certain patients they way she does and how she goes about her day due to the fact that she has to help people deal with problems that are really complex.

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

1. What I am planning to do is to go to a differnt clinic that my mentor is going to recommend me too. They specialize more on one to one therapy sessions that I can sit in and observe. I will also contiune doing hours with my mentor and helping her run classes at the mental wellness center.

2. My goal is to go there at least once a week for about 3 hours and observe the other psychologist. I will try to take pictures and feedback from the psychologist running the therapy session.

3. This will help me with my component because I will be observing teens in a session with a person who is an expert in the field. It will show me how encounter the teen without pushing them away. It will also help me see how the psychologist treat the paitent so that they will be open with her.

4. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1riEOQ_SSLTliFLyZhifGuGrmCOAITXl7G06njAe3dSQ/edit?usp=sharing