Independent Component 2

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LITERAL

(a) Include this statement: “I, Susana Pinon, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 37 & 30 mins hours of work.”

(b) WIth my Independent Component 2, I got help from psychologist Jasmine Guerrero. I also used Chan, Amanda L. "Going To Therapy For The First Time? Here's What To Expect." The Huffington Post. The Huffington Post.com, n.d. Web. 26 Apr. 2015. This is an article that was given to me by my mentor.

(c) My hours are updated.

(d) For my second component, aside from doing a couple more hours at Tri City, I started to go to a office from a psychologist, Jasmine Guerrero. There I had the chance to sit in with her during sessions with her patients. I got to learn how to do an evaluation for a new patient. In some sessions I was allowed to take notes but in most cases I was not because the patients did not feel comfortable with me doing so. I spent a good amount of time doing research on article my mentor would give me when I was not allowed to sit in the sessions with her. I got the chance to experience my mentor introduce and explain treatments to her patients. I was taught how to do evaluation phone calls and my mentor trusted me to do some without supervision since I learned how to do it well. I had a chance to give out my opinion in some sessions where the patients asked for my input as well.

Defend your work and explain the component's significance and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  

Here is a link to the evaluation sheet I learned to fill in while attending first time patients. Since it is private sessions, I was not allowed to take pictures of patients in their sessions. You can contact my mentor at (909) 576-5088 to verify anything else.

http://www.holisticpsychological.com/A_PEQ.pdf

How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped.

This component helped me answer my EQ because I had the chance to actually sit in with a patient. My EQ asks; What is the best way for a psychologist and parents to collaborate about the treatment of a teenage patient? I did not get much of a chance to see the parents involved in the treatments but I did get to work with teens and how the way their treatments worked. I observed my mentor explain a treatment thoroughly and I noticed how she detailed everything in specific matters. When there was parents I noticed how my mentor talked to all of them the same way therefore the teen doesn't feel like they are being talked to in a lower manner.