Jennifer Kortge is a School Social Worker for a special education consortium of three different school districts in Lapeer County, in Michigan. The three school districts she services include Imlay City, Dryden, and Almont community schools. As a School Social Worker for a special education consortium Jennifer is required to provide special education social work services for students that are experiencing social, emotional, or behavioral issues. During the interview Jennifer mentioned that she works with students receiving support in various programs, including the consortium emotional impairment program, cognitive impairment program, early childhood program, and resource programs. The students Jennifer works with is a wide age range of…
1. Discuss the impacts of “emerging adulthood” on your transition from adolescence into adulthood. The biggest impact would have to be the transition from home to college. Leaving the comfort of home where everything is being taken cared of by your parents.…
For the family interview I choose to interview my mom Laura Mahlich. I choose to interview her because she is the main person my sisters and I always turn to when we have an issue or when we need someone to talk to. When being home over the weekend I asked her if she would like to sit down with me and answer interview questions about how our family communicates and interacts with one another. I asked ten open-ended questions that lead to a long discussion and talk about our family’s communications skills.…
In order to better understand the nature of middle adulthood I chose to interview Joy, whom is my mother-in-law. Currently, she is in the middle adulthood development at 63 years old and is a retired Registered Nurse, who served over 40 years in the workforce. She is married to her husband Richard and has three children, Jolene, Adam, and Aaron. Joy has four grandchildren from her daughter Jolene, who live in Oregon. Joy has been a mother to me, and I hope to be like her one day.…
According to Invitation to the Lifespan, Beth, the first women I interviewed, is in the Emerging Adulthood stage of life. Emerging adulthood is the period of life between 18 and 25 and is considered the transitioning phase from adolescence to adulthood. (Berger, 2016) Beth is an 18-year-old female and the older of two children. She is currently in her freshman year at a University in California.…
For the peer reflection project, I interviewed Alexis Dowdell about the time her family adopted her cousin, Rochell. I thought this process was very interesting. Interviewing someone I never spoke to before was new. Even though this was a different experience, I was not nervous or overthinking about the right approach. I felt the right approach to interview Alexis was to be myself.…
Intergenerational Interview Paper Introduction The person that I interviewed was my mother, Catherine Scurlark. I thought I knew everything there was to know about her, but after this interview I feel like I have a much better perception about who she actually is and how the impact of events has shaped her into the woman that she is today. My mom is 50 years of age – according to Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development, that puts her in the middle adulthood (generativity vs. stagnation) category.…
throughout the lifespan (Feldman, 2011). It can be developed either negatively or positively, depending on how an individual accomplishes tasks during each stage of moral development. This shows that morality will change as an individual ages and goes through different experiences of life. Kohlberg’s theory consists of 3 stages: pre-conventional, conventional, and post-conventional. In pre-conventional morality, it is most common in 3-7 year olds.…
I chose to do my interview on middle adulthood because I wanted to get a better understanding of the sort of changes my mom acquired or went through in her middle adulthood, so in the future when I’m her age, I can be prepared for what is to come…
Thanks for posting the interview, and I think they are very interesting to read. The first interview is about a single mother and her three years old daughter with Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia. Yorganson and Stott (2017) point out that "childhood illness can have pervasive negative effects on various aspects of the lives of family members including their mood, lifestyle, education, self-esteem, social relations, physical well-being, and future concerns." Like the family in the first interview, the single mother, have a lot of stress about the financial hardship, and she also feels guilty about depending on other family members to help with the childcare. As a single parent, she has to offer financial support and emotional support all by herself,…
For this particular assignment I decided to interview my mother, asserting her generation would be significantly different from mine, especially in the concept of communication and society roles. I decided to conduct the interview Friday afternoon, and just after 45minutes I got more information then what I could imagine. I asked my mother certain questions such as what experiences shaped her childhood, to what expectations did society or cultural media have on young women. However after these leading questions or conversation got more depth, as in to analyzing how different my childhood was compared to hers especially with social media, and the effects it has in not only my generation, but also future generations to come. One aspect of…
Adult Development Case Study I. Introduction: For my case study I interview my grandmother my fathers mother. She is a sixty-three years old widow with 7 children, two of which are stepchildren. My grandmother currently resides in a small town called Pinkard in Alabama. She lives with her youngest son and nephew.…
Family Assessment The community environment is a suburb of Saint Paul and is on the east side of the Twin Cities area. The housing development is located off a busy street that consists of a public High School, a grocery store, multiple fast food restaurants, a city park, and is one mile from a major highway system. The housing development includes over one hundred and fifty houses that are mostly brick, two story homes with vivid green grass, colorful flower gardens and filled with friendly, waving homeowners.…
The Interview The interview process went well. Even though I am familiar with this family, I still conducted the interview professionally. I started out by stating my name, that I am a Bachelor of Nursing Student and that the purpose of the interview is to learn more about the family and that everything discussed will be confidential. I began by asking Melissa questions on the structure and composition of her family, and I drew out a rough draft of a genogram as she was answering my questions and providing me with information.…
I decided to interview my mom for this paper because she has had a significant role in my upbringing and she means a lot to me. Since my mom and I are very close, like best friend status, I already knew a lot about her which made the interviewing process much easier. My mom and I share a lot of the same views on many issues but have differing views on a few, especially under the diversity category. I live at home with my mom and father and so I see my mom everyday which is one reason why our viewpoints are similar, so we can both avoid cognitive dissonance and it makes the day to day living more manageable.…