BLog 21: Exit Interview

(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers?  What is your best answer and why?My essential qyestion is, What is the best way for a psycholigst and parents to collaborate about the treatment of a teenage patient? My first answer is, 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. My second answer is 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. My third answer is A psychologist should be able to offer collaborative, team-based programs for adolescents from initial evaluation to follow-up treatment. They should represent a broad range of specialties and bring an comprehensive approach to treatment planning and continuing care. My best answer is a combination of all my answers but mainly the first and second one. The best way for a pyscholigst and parents to come about the treatment of a teenage patient is to evoke the teens prespective on the situation so that they have a say in their treatment. The psychologist should be able to offer a team-based treatment therefore the parents could be involved and they too can understand what is going on. 

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

The process that it took me to arrive at this answer was through various ways. After having answers one, two, and three, I thought that was the best and strongest answer was my first one. When I met with my second mentor Jazzmine, she explained how all three answers combined would suit my best answer. With all m answers combines I adress all threee parites that are mentioned in my quuestion. She also told me to refer back to my research articles that had to do with the way treatments affected the paitent.

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

The problemsI faced was that in my answers I mainly addressed to a specific party. The question is based of three so that would make my answers not fully answered. Also that are not many articles on treatments that involve parents which lead me to ask my mentor from her past experineces. 

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

Behnke, Stephen H., and Elizabeth Warner. "Confidentiality in the Treatment of Adolescents." Http://www.apa.org. American Psychological Association, Mar. 2002. Web. 23 Apr. 2015. This helped because it was an interview two psychologist had and they hit key point as of why teenagers needed to be evoked in their treatment. It also gave me an insite of what different types of reactions from teens a psychologist can face. Psychology The Easy Way by Melucci. This book is like a guide about psychology. It informed me about treatments, it gave me smal lessons and it would test me at the end. It provided me with more resources at the end of each section. It gave me words and definitions that are used in the every day world in psychology. This help me have more knowlegde when it came to putting an answer together.