Cedars

I loved when we had the guest speaker from Cedars Home come talk to our class. I thought our discussion with him was great. His lecture and his enthusiasm and concern from adolescents in our community really was inspiring. I have learned from this class that there are many things that I have no idea about in Lincoln. I didn't know people slept under bridges, I thought they always had a place to stay in a homeless shelter. This is not the case at all. I am trying to get a job with Cedars being a Visitation Worker, or any other position. I work with an outreach ministry with youth in Lincoln, but would also like to work with Cedars. Chris inspired me and he is the reason I applied for a job at Cedars.

Last reflections

As a few of you have said, after watching those movie clips from Antoin Fischer on Thursday I too want to go out and rent the movie. Our Family Science final is my last final so maybe I'll go out and rent it after that:) I didn't think about it until one of you brought it up but I don't think we went far enough into the whole working with families topic, especially because I'm sure there are a bunch of people in our class who will be doing just that. The class seemed kind of rushed...we didn't even get through the 4th aspect of Effective Interpersonal Support (he said there are four but we only got through listening, understanding and support) I do wonder now what the 4th aspect is. I also thought it was interesting how Dr. Hollist emphasized that as a professional, you're supposed to help people find answers adn learn to process and deal with their own problems rather than just telling them how to fix them. I think the Antoin Fischer movie clips did a good job of showing that and I'm excited to watch the whole movie and see how things play out. That is also something to think about even when just talking with my friends about their problems. I can't believe this is the end of this class! It was one of the best classes I've taken in college (and I've been here 3 years - and 3 to go with my new major, family and consumer science education and I am super excited to take more classes like this and learn more about the things we discussed in this class.) I feel that this class has not just helped me in my professional development but also just in my development as a person!

This class has been a lot of fun and I will truly miss it! I enjoyed the movie we watched on Thursday! Does anyone know the name of the movie? I would really like to rent it and watch the rest of it! :) Good luck to everyone on the final and have a great summer!!

Extra Blog

This is my extra blog for this class. I enjoyed our last class for the most part. However, I feel like we mainly learned what NOT to say to people, instead of what you should say. A lot of the common responses are things I say to my friends and family when they have problems. I get that we shouldn't just tell someone everything will be okay when something traumatic just happened. I feel we should have covered more ways to respond to people than just learning everything we shouldn't do. The movie clip we watched made me want to go rent that movie. It made me realize how hard it would be to be a psychologist. It would be difficult to listen to people's problems and not just tell them what you think they should do. They need to come to the conclusion for themselves. Overall, i enjoyed this class and would recommend it to my peers.

Last Blog

Last blog YA!! Class on Thursday we watched the video clips. I thought that this class was interesting because we had an example by watching the movie. It gave so much more insight on how to effective talk to people to be able to have an example and not just being told. The movie also seems really interesting. I think I might have to watch it! Class altogether this year has been fun. I think that I learned a lot from taking it.

I don't know but I think this will be my last!

Well Monday is our Final which I am preparing for right now. I'm only on Essay question #1 and hopefully will get through all for 4 this afternoon. Anyway, Good luck to anyone and if you ever have a thought you would like to talk about send me an email. seantrinity@yahoo.com