The interview I conducted took place in the courtyard of my complex in Smallville, with the interviewee and myself. For the purpose of his paper and to protect the adolescent privacy lets call her Regina. Regina is a fourteen-year-old adolescent female of Africa American descent. She is above average in height and carries a very shy and nonchalance deposition. She is a very attractive young lady and does above average work in her school setting. She appears to be a normal every day child with a lifetime of experiences awaiting her. Regina was the daughter of my life long best friend and he approved of the interview, however he was not present during the interview. The Interview took place on February 10 at about 5:00 pm it lasted approximately two hour with small breaks in between. The weather was cool and the sun had started to set as we started. I sat with Regina and asked her several questions that I thought were significant in the process of this interview assignment. Regina demeanor was that of a juvenile delinquent being question about a crime. I new this was not a way to get close to her nor establish a bond of trust that would be necessary for her to open up to me. So I decided to play a game that required her trust, this proved to be a icebreaker as she started to open up slowly as I started the questions. The following questions are the questions that I presented to her: 1. What makes you, you? 2. Do you enjoy school 3. How do you select your friends? 4. What makes children Popular at school? 5. Is there violence at your school? 6. Do you feel safe at school? 7. How is your self-esteem? 8. Would you consider yourself happy and joyful or depressed and down? 9. Have you ever or thought about using drugs or alcohol? I started the interview off by asking a very arcane and confusing question to Regina; what makes you, you? She was flabbergasted and didn’t know how to respond. She stumbled and stuttered to say almost nothing for about three minutes. Then she started to talk and talk she did. She summarized her comments with “People grow up all coming from all different kinds of places, backgrounds and families. They will all have different identities. Gender affects the decisions made by people. Their identity and the nature of the person make them act the way they do. Nobody is the same and ... ... middle of paper ... ...ers to what she believed were problems. She was very mature for a 14-year-old child. After we talked she simply went inside the house and returned to the normalcy of a school age child. Bibliography Cepulkauskaite, Ieva. Drug Addiction of Teenagers: Myth or Reality? 1998. March 23, 2003. Clarizio, H.F., & Payette, K. (1990). A survey of school psychologists' perspectives and practices with childhood depression. Psychology in the Schools, 27. 57-63. Dubuque, S.E. (1998). Fighting childhood depression. Education Digest, 63, 64-69. Fuller, T. (1992). Masked depression in maladaptive black adolescents. School Counselor, 20, 24-32. Huesmann, L.R. 1986. Psychological process promoting the relation between exposure to medial violence and aggressive behavior by the viewer. Journal of social issues 42, 125-139. Janzen, H.L., & Saklofske, D.H. (1991). Children and depression. School Psychology Review, 20, 139-142. National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Prevention. School Health Policies and Programs Study. September 30, 2002. April 6, 2003. Yarnell, T. D., (1999, August 15). Build your Child’s Self-Esteem. Psychology and You [Online].
In my interview Shayna Bennett, I asked her questions that were pertinent to the issue at hand. All of my questions were directed towards how she and her faculty handled this situation as well as the different methods that were used to pinpoint the issue. The reason I chose to do an interview is because I wanted to get a first-hand experience as to how one should handle children with behavioral issues because of a domestic abuse problem. The answers that were given seemed pretty
Inductive reasoning is a process of applying logic in which conclusions are made from ideas, which are believed to be true most of the time. It is based on predictions and behavior.
Even though I am aware that there have been great strides forward, especially within the past decade, in the implementation of safer and more constructive methods, in regards to child interviewing practices, I am appalled at the gross negligence of our justice system, in their failure to protect children from the brutal onslaught of such damaging interrogation. Not only does it fail to safeguard a child’s health and well-fare, but it also proves counterproductive in the gathering of reliable testimony, and so therefore does not ultimately serve the constructs of justice, either.
...er strength and commitment to "being the best she can be" through her desire to "keep up with society." This is demonstrated through her eagerness to learn to use a computer and her utiilization of the Internet and E-mail. However, the common theme Maxine discussed during the interviews was her love and dedication to her "Christian family." Her almost life long, loyal involvement, with her Church has given her membership in a Christian family. This Christian family fills a vital role in her life. This same Christian family gave her the opportunity to meet her current husband and best friend. I am grateful for the opportunity to conduct two separate interviews with Maxine. Her story is interesting and encouraging. As I progress towards my "golden years," I hope that I will maintain a healthy body, mind and soul. This formula has obviously worked for Maxine.
War ravaged the land and tore people apart emotionally and physically. One recurrence that came about during the war was the raping and “ruining” of women. To be ruined meant that a woman was raped and/or tortured so severely that she would no longer be capable of having sex. In a culture that values the fertility of its women, this lead to the breakdown of many communities. A perfect example of this breakdown would be in the case of Salima and Fortune. Salima was taken into the bush and raped for 5 months and when she returned home her husband, Fortune, turned her away. This violence committed against Salima caused her to be forced from her community, and it also forced her to take up work at Mama Nadi’s. Here she has to endure a change of identity in order to do the work required of her and to come to terms with her past. At the end of the play, Salima dies and states the haunting words; “You will not fight your battles on my body anymore”(94). These last words sum up just how intrusive the war has become in the lives of everyone in its path and also represents a clear shift in Salima as an individual. Instead of the woman who just wanted her husband back at the end of the play, we are left to contemplate a
For that, I interviewed my boss, Karen. I see her almost every work day but there were still many things I wanted to ask her about. I knew that she had been married to a man before she met her wife, and that she still had his last name even after separating and remarrying. I also knew that her father was a Methodist minister and performed her marriage ceremony back when he could’ve gotten in a lot of hot water for doing so. I knew that she was adopted, too. But the rest of her life, the in-between moments, were still a mystery to me. So, I really enjoyed that interview. As you can tell from the transcription, we laughed a lot and got along well. I think she felt comfortable and she told me later that she had enjoyed talking with me. I also came more prepared and with more questions. It was hard to do my initial research on my student interviewee because there wasn’t a lot of prior information that I could find about her. With Karen, I not only had my own prior information, but she is also easily found on the internet. A lot of that has to do with her age and the businesses she has been involved
She felt that I maintained eye contact and reiterated her responses in a way to made her feel heard. The open-ended questions that I had integrated into the interview allowed her to realize the inconsistencies between her current behavior and her future goals. I big point from her was that I allowed her to do majority of the talking which she believed put her in control and that I wasn’t forcing her into a particular direction of change. She could tell that I wasn’t completely confident in the way that I asked my questions, using a lot of “um’s” and “so’s “. We also discussed how she felt about the amount of pauses I took in order to respond and how this made for a awkward silence, taking away the comfort of the setting. It was also brought up that I could have used more empathy when responding to her as it would of let her knew that I am taking into account the difficulty of the change for
Depression in school-age children may be one of the most overlooked and under treated psychological disorders of childhood, presenting a serious mental health problem. Depression in children has become an important issue in research due to its many emotional forms, and its relationship to self-destructive behaviors. Depressive disorders are of particular importance to school psychologists, who are often placed in the best position to identify, refer, and treat depressed children. Procedures need to be developed to identify depression in students to avoid allowing those children struggling with depression to go undetected. Depression is one of the most treatable forms of disorders, with an 80-90% chance of improvement if individuals receive treatment (Dubuque, 1998). On the other hand, if untreated, serious cases of depression in childhood can be severe, long, and interfere with all aspects of development, relationships, school progress, and family life (Janzen, & Saklofske, 1991).
For example, a strong inductive argument could be that, “Joe and Tim are both in boxing club. Joe has red gloves, therefore Tim probably has red gloves.” This argument does not ensure that Tim has red gloves, but since the argument follows a logical structure and the premises that both Joe and Tim are in boxing club and that Joe has red gloves are probably true, the argument leads to a strong conclusion.
Our social behavior is a big part of what makes us who we are. Personally, I think that growing up in a small town is better than growing up in a city. My small town values influence my behavior and criteria for
In an inductive argument, new ideas and information may be introduced, aiding new scientific explanations and conclusions, whereas in an deductive argument, no new ideas or information is introduced since the conclusions are already stated either explicitly or implicitly within the premises. Both inductive and deductive arguments work hand in hand and are used in Empirical Science and in the Scientific Method. Deductive arguments alone, as encouraged initially by Aristotle, is not effective when trying to explain a more complex idea or phenomena. Deduction and scientific experimentation along with induction is much more effective at explaining and arriving at a conclusion and the Scientific Method and the Empirical Sciences now consists and depends of these two types of arguments, deductive argument to prove a specific conclusion, and inductive argument to generate new ideas and
Deductive reasoning is general information people have and use to reach to some type of conclusion. Deductive is done by understanding the first part which is using logic to reach a conclusion which reasoning is to understand what is going on. There are many different ways to explain what is required of deductive reasoning. For example, in an article, it states, “logical way of reaching a conclusion based on ded...
Both inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning have a premise and a conclusion. They are both reasoning’s and a conclusion. How both reasoning’s get to a conclusion is different. Deduction
Depression is a disease that afflicts the human psyche in such a way that the afflicted tend to act and react abnormally toward others and themselves. Adolescent depression is greatly under diagnosed, and leads to serious difficulties in school, and personal adjustment. The reason why depression is often overlooked in children is because children are not always able to express how they feel. Therefore, teachers should be trained in dealing with depressed youths, and to advise the parents of the child to seek professional treatment. School is the place where children spend most of their waking hours learning, socializing, and growing.
Two principles of reasoning are useful to lawyers when constructing arguments or providing support for their arguments; inductive and deductive reasoning. Through careful inspection of these principles, along with the consideration of two theories implemented in mathematical logic, we can conclude that they are very similar. The indirect proof method and the valid argument form of Modus Ponens (in mathematical logic) closely relate to the theories of inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning (used in the field of law). I feel that my knowledge of mathematical logic will help me to form more carefully constructed, valid arguments as a