Blog 22: Mentorship

Hannah Leonard

 

North 12

 

 

Blog 22: Mentorship

 

Content:

LIA Response to blog:

    Literal

·     Log of specific hours with a total and a description of your duties updated on the right hand side of your blog

·     Contact Name and Mentorship Place

    Interpretive

     What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?

The most important thing I gained from this experience was an understanding of an issue that is extremely downplayed in society and not recognized as as big of an issue as it actually is.

   Applied

     How has what you’ve done helped you to answer your EQ?  Please explain.

What I've done has helped me answer my EQ because my mentorship supplied me with the most in depth, reliable information and therefore gave my answers background and detail.



Blog 23: Final Lesson Reflection

Hannah Leonard

North 12

May 22, 2015

Blog 23: Final Lesson Reflection 

(1) Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your block presentation and/or your senior project? Why?
I am most proud of my activities because they were very effective in demonstrating my answers. 

(2) Questions to Consider

a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your block presentation (self-assessment)?

AE       P          AP       CR       NC

b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project (self-assessment)?

AE       P          AP       CR       NC

(3) What worked for you in your senior project?

My mentorship really worked for me in my senior project.

(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your senior project if you could go back in time?

If I had a time machine, I wouldn't go back and change anything. 

(5) Finding Value

How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?   Be specific and use examples.

The senior project has been extremely helpful in the way that it has helped me figure out what I want my future endeavors to be. Through this project I have discovered what I want to study in college and what I want to major in. My major is gender and women's studies. Also this project helped me make connections with people that can help expand my opportunities in life as well as, not just a mentor but someone that I can look up to.  

Blog 21: Exit Interview

Hannah Leonard 

North 12

May 6, 2015

Blog 21: Exit Interview 

Content:

(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers?  What is your best answer and why?

My essential question is "How best can a person overcome the effects of domestic violence?"

Answer 1: Coordinated Community Action 

Answer 2: Education 

Answer 3: Trauma Therapy

Best Answer: Education  
Education is my best answer because education works in all stages of domestic violence. It can be preventative, help a victims get out of a relationship, or help them heal afterwards. Education is the most effective and the easiest to implement because people seek to understand. 

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

It was a combination of independent research, mentorship experience, and critical thinkings. Putting all of the pieces together that make up the complex dynamic that is domestic violence was key to coming up with my best answer.   

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

I had trouble coming up with an essential question in the first place because I didn't want it to be a question with an obvious answer and I wanted the question to be  organic, something that I would actually ask. Mrs. Ortega helped me come up with an essential question that fir this description. 

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

Bancroft, Lundy. "Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men". New York: Putnam's Sons, 2002. Print.

"Why Does He Do That?" goes in depth about how a batterer works and this was very helpful because the batterer is the most confusing portion to the domestic violence dynamic with the constant mood swings.

My mentors, Ashley Solis and Marina Wood

They gave me both of my best sources as well as most of what I know about domestic violence. They were/are amazing sources of information.

Levy, Barrie. "In Love & In Danger." Seal Press, 2006. Print.

This book gives first hand accounts of domestic violence relationships and helps create a clearer picture of what occurs in them.

April Extra Blog Post

Hannah Leonard

April 30, 2015

North 12

April Extra Blog Post

I recently went to a film screening at Cal Poly with my mentor Ashley Solis for the documentary, The Hunting Ground. This documentary was extremely eye opening to how sexual assault is viewed and handled on college campuses across the United States. I highly recommend this documentary to everyone, it is very educational and really exposes the corruption occurring on college campuses. I have attached a link to the trailer for this film below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAcO6byawpo 

Independent Component 2

Hannah Leonard

North 12

April 27, 2015

Independent Component 2

LITERAL
(a) Include this statement: “I, Hannah Leonard, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
(b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.

Ashley Solis, the Preventions Coordinator at the House of Ruth
(c) Update your Independent Component 2 Log (which should be under your Senior Project Hours link)
(d) Explain what you completed. 

I completed 30 hours of work in the form of mentorship at the House of Ruth with Ashley Solis, the Preventions Coordinator.    
INTERPRETIVE 
Defend your work and explain the component's significance and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  

At my mentorship I do a lot of office work, making copies, organizing files, stocking the presentation carts etc. However even though that's the majority of what I do I am still constantly learning. I ask questions and they are answered in great detail. Whatever holes I have in my understanding of a particular area is filed in. 
APPLIED
How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. 

This component helped me answer my EQ  by making any information that I felt I was missing easily accessible. Whatever questions I had my mentor was more than happy to answer.  This helped solidify my answer and make them more concrete.  

March Extra Blog Post

Hannah Leonard

North 12

March 31, 2015

March Extra Blog Post

When it came to my research process, I found that my mentorship, and mentors themselves, were amazing sources of information. I did a mentorship at a domestic violence organization called, The House of Ruth, my mentors being Marina Wood and Ashley Solis. Both Marina and Ashley majored in women and gender studies so their knowledge far extends just domestic violence. They are educated in gender roles, transgender situations, rape culture, and sexual orientation identification. Any and all questions I had were welcomed and answered in great depth and detail. At my mentorship, not only was there a wide rage of large amount of information easily accessible but it was also reliable information. I had trouble finding books that were specific to my topic and I was skeptical about online sources because I had no way of knowing if the "facts" presented to me were accurate. I was always excited to go to mentorship because I was constantly learning something new, even when I thought that there was nothing left to learn. However my topic was Clinical Psychology not domestic violence, so I had to be careful to not let all of the domestic violence information overpower the clinical psychology part. I had to make sure they went together and that the connection was clear and concise. When I came up with my essential question, it made it much easier to include and connect clinical psychology. Ms. Ortega and Ms. Yelverton helped me dedicate to an essential question. I had originally thought that my essential question would "What is the best way to prevent domestic violence?". However this question seemed to have only one answer and didn't really beg for depth of research. After I decided on my essential question, making the connection between domestic violence and clinical psychology didn't seem so forced after that. From this I learned that you just have to make it work. There is always a way, you just have to find the right angle and amplify it. Also, outsourcing is very helpful. There is nothing wrong with getting the opinion of a few different trusted sources. Getting different views on one subject can be very telling, of what works and what doesn't. The essential question is "How best can a person overcome the effects of domestic violence?" In this I mean all aspects of the impact domestic violence has on someone's life. Including triggers, PTSD, anxiety, and depression. This would be the clinical side to the effects the violence has on the mind. The body itself can also react. It has been heard of for domestic violence victims to get ulcers due to the large amount of stress they undergo on a daily basis. They could suffer from arthritis because of broken bones they suffered in the past that healed incorrectly. Physical abuse is the most commonly known form of domestic violence, however even in those situations, the victims say that it was the mental/emotional abuse that stays with them.

Blog 18: Fourth Interview Preparation

Hannah Leonard

North 12

March 12, 2015

Blog 18:Fourth Interview Preparation 

Content: Post 20 open-ended questions you want to ask an expert in the field concerning your senior project. The focus of your questions should be on your answer to your EQ.

1. How often, in cases where the man is the abuser, do they change?
2. In cases where the woman is the abuser, how often do they change?

3. In your opinion, how effective is trauma centered therapy?

4. What do think is the best way for a person to overcome the effects of domestic violence?
5. How often do the victims in domestic violence relationships never leave their batterer for good?
6. What does the House of Ruth do in order to help the victims of DV realize that they should leave their abusive relationship?
7. With the children in DV relationships, do you see a difference between the way the boys and girls react/cope?
8. What do you think is the most effective way for a child who grew up in a DV environment to overcome the effects of the trauma?
9. Why do you think it is that men are far more commonly batterers than women?
10. What do you think the most common form of abuse it?
11. How much-if any-has domestic violence awareness spread since you started working at the House of Ruth? 
12. What do you think is the most commonly known form of domestic violence?
13. Why do you think this is the most commonly known form?
14. Do know of any of unorthodox forms of trauma centered therapy? Ex: rapid eye movement
15. Why do victims of abuse endore it?
16. Are there cases where seeking help can aggravate the situation?
17. How is economic status related to DV?
18. How does psychology therapy differ between people from our country and immigrants?
19. What is the treatment process for the batterer?
20. What are the psychological effects on children that live in a domestic violence house hold?
21. Does age affect the treatment that the victim in a DV relationship receives?