Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

1. Describe what you are going to do in detail

          What I plan to do for my Independent Component 2 is not only hours with my soon to be new mentor but to start logging hours, taking notes on counseling videos and movies. I also am planning on volunteering at a children's foundation or teen/child group that helps cope with depression and or suicide.

2. This will show evidence of 30 hours by logging my start and finish or just total hours each day that I go to my new mentorship or am watching videos and my feedback after. I plan to thoroughly record this to ensure I get to 30 hours.

3. This component will help me explore my topic more in depth by gaining first hand experience and being in the field as close as I possibly can and observing what other professionals do to make sure I have a string background. These activities will also help me answer my essential question by giving me information I've experienced and seeing professionals do to ensure authentic answers.

Blog 14: Independent Component 1

Literal:
        (a)  I, Anais Bolden affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
        (b) sources: Joanne Carr and Lela Williams
        (c)https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1udJrgdAd4tkqi3a8BzgKU_hwtBhRCmRDiMWlLRTSofI/edit?usp=sharing
        (d)My thirty hours for independent component was more Mentorship hours. I just volunteered extra time and went to a senior home with Ms. Williams for a lot of the hours to get more advice and understand and see counseling first- hand. When I went to my mentorship at PIH, I'd continue to do paper work, make copies and go through scenarios or "case studies" my mentor Joanne gave me.

Interpretive:
          Since counseling is very tricky due to privacy laws, I wasn't allowed to take pictures of the senior homes I spent my time at but my mentorship location hasn't changed and the office is in La Habra with Presbyterian Inter-Community Hospital (PIH).

Applied:
          How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?
Being able to go to facility and more specifically a senior home and to hear how the procedure works of ensuring a senior is getting medicine or just proper care really helps to understand the process. My mentor talks a lot about active listening and ensuring a full understanding of a clients situation and with this you can clearly see that. It's important to ask the right questions to make sure someone is comfortable and in a okay state of mind. Each person deals with their situation differently and being able to work or shadow in a setting like this helps to understand way more when it's right in front of you. Also, with the situations my mentor makes me read and go through helps to visualize and gives you a better idea of what is actually possible and the range of things people deal with.