Blog 4: Interview Preparation

1. Who do you plan to interview? Why? 
I plan to interview my mentor Patti because she has experience in what she does and she can provide me with information that I need.

2. You have to ask five questions. What additional questions do you plan to ask?
I'll ask her questions more focused on depression in the kids that she's worked with. I'd also ask her what books or articles she recommends that I read.

1. What skills do you think are needed to help out a child with depression?

2. What books or articles do you recommend that I should read that are about psychology or depression?

3. What are the do's and don'ts when helping out a child with depression?

4. Has there been any problems in the past where a child that you worked with who had depression and something else like anger or suicidal thoughts as well? 

5. How do you help out a child dealing with depression? 

Blog 3: Topic Choice and Working EQ

1.  List your topic here: 
Psychology. I want to help out teens or pre-teens with depression.

2.  Write a question that helps to focus your research this month.
How can you best help out a person deal with depression?

3.  Post the working bibliography (WB) on the right hand side of the blog and share it so anybody can view it. 

Blog 2 : Mentorship

1. (Know) Using google doc (drive) link a log of specific hours and a description of your duties (click here for an example) to your blog post.  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rRUbGnyaaZGPayvYbQ_ZIKukFBGC8BGuK3Qne93ppf8/edit?usp=drive_web

2. What is the contact name & number of where you volunteered?
 Patti Azevedo
Program Administrator
School Mental Health Services
Pomona Unified School District
605 North Park Avenue
Pomona, California 91768
909-397-4491 x26594
909-623-9560 (Fax)

3. (Need to know) What questions were raised because of the 10 hours of experience?  List them.     What's a good strategy when helping someone deal with their depression? 
What if the person isn't really cooperative? 
What if you have your own personal problems? 

4. What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why? 
The most important thing I gained from this experience, even though I actually didn't be a big brother to a child dealing with a depression just yet, was to put the patient first. Each session would be different, either bad or good from the last session, but either good or bad, I can make it better. 

5. What is your senior project topic going to be?  How did what you did help you choose a topic?  Please explain.
My senior topic is going to be on helping pre-teens, possibly teens, deal with depression. I've always loved taking the time to help out some one that is sad and slowly make them happy again. By doing what I did it helped me realize even more that this is something I could see myself doing in the future.