Hello Fellow Bloggers and classmates,
So for this exercise, Ballenger in "Curious Researcher" asks us to come up with a proposal for how we plan to research our topics. Here's what I came up with.
My inquiry question is "Is Counseling necessary for everyone?".
Questions that I have concerning my topic.
How was professional counseling developed and why?
Why is counseling necessary?
Why do people go to counseling?
What are the benefits to counseling?
What are the defaults to counseling?
What are naysayers saying about professional counseling?
In what occasions is it almost mandatory to seek counseling?
Do other countries have professional counseling? Why or Why not?
How is counseling perceived?
Ballenger then asks us to bring in past experiences on our topic. This is what I got out of the assignment.
My entire life, my mother lived with us, provided for us and was an amazing person, outside of our house that is. The major problems she had was that she never asked us how we were doing unless she saw us in pain or if she was actually home. My dad was a great father, but he's a guy so I just thought it was weird to speak to him about my problems. I also saw my parents fight constantly always threatening to leave each other, but the only thing that kept them together was us kids. I always looked for someone to talk to about the simplest things like how my day went, or which boy I liked that month. I thought being a teacher or being a doctor is what I wanted to do because I've been to both places my whole life( I had led poisoning as a child and went to the doctor for any minor cold I had) and I've seen both teacher and doctors in action thinking I can be that person someday. I then realized that I did not want to be cold-hearted by telling families their father died, or having to deal little kids that want nothing less but to be in a place they call jail. So, I figured counseling is the right thing for me. With my past, I could actually have experience and apply it to my counseling. Thanks for listening to my rant fellow bloggers.
Be Blessed,
Jessica Guzman
Monday, March 24, 2014
Exercise 1.1
Hello Fellow Bloggers,
For this exercise, we were to brainstorm words or phrases that came to our mind when we saw the words places, trends, things, technologies, people, controversies, history, jobs, habits, and hobbies. So I wrote them in a list on a word document and here it is...
After thinking about my topic for a while, this is what i came up with? I did not think I thought about that topic as much as I did until I wrote all those questions. Let the true thinking begin.
Be Blessed,
Jess Guzman
For this exercise, we were to brainstorm words or phrases that came to our mind when we saw the words places, trends, things, technologies, people, controversies, history, jobs, habits, and hobbies. So I wrote them in a list on a word document and here it is...
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Habits
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God’s name in vain
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Leaving cell phone on
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Tapping
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Whistling
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Unkown habits
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Sleep schedule
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Jobs
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Stability
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Increase of lower waged jobs in z future
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Jobs for next generation
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Things
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Annoying tutor
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Slacking off
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Sleeping habits
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College students
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Controversies
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Marriages
o
Divorce
o
Violence in other countries
o
Sex trafficking
o
Decisions on marriage in other countries
o
Is counseling for everyone?
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Trends
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Facebook
o
Twitter
o
Insta
o
Snapchat
o
Spotify
o
Clothing
o
Jewelry
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Modesty
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Places
o
Dictatorship
o
Poverty
o
Children
o
Drug dealing
o
Criminals
o
Cruses
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Beautiful views
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Why is America better than others?
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Why does everyone want to be in America
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Different cultures
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Different religions
We are then to find one item in the list we have generated that we see has potiential to write about and circle(underline, highlight, and bold in my case). With the item we have chosen , we are to generate as many questions as possible on the topic. I again am going to copy and paste my list from a word document as I find this option easier.
Is Counseling for Everyone?
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Is there a requirement needed to get counseled?
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What cases are required to get counseling?
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Is there a line between not enough, just, or too
much counseling for a client?
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Do we have to pay to get professional
counseling?
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In what kinds of life altering times is it
necessary to seek counseling?
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When is it okay to have an intervention for a
person saying they will never need anyone’s help?
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Is counseling seen as the thing to do in other
countries?
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What does professional or something similar to
it look like in other cultures?
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Why do we seek counseling?
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Should we fully rely on God for our counseling
needs?
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Are all counselors only seeing clients as
numbers?
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Should all counselors be Christian or not
Christian?
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Should all counselors have the same take on
counseling?
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Should counseling be taken seriously?
What is counseling
Exercise 1
Hello Fellow bloggers and classmates,
On this first exercise, Bruce Ballenger, the author of " Curious Researcher" asks us to think of a topic and write on our beliefs on it. We are to write 3 minutes non stop no matter how messy it gets, so here I go.
I chose the topic of my beliefs on marriage and how it may be( I've never been on a relationship so bare with me.)
Marriage is probably the hardest decision you will take. Marriage is when 2 people find love, compatibility, and similarites together to the point where they think they can spend the rest of their lives together. Some deal breakers is whether they want to have kids, adopt, live in the city, or in the country, or other life changing decisions....
Well that's all I could think of in three minute. I believe I psyched myself out because I timed myself and I felt like I needed to know everything on my topic without using past experiences.
Step two in this exercise, Ballenger asks us to pick from a ray of topics and do the same type of fast writing as I did above. Only this time, we are allowed to use our own experiences instead of thinking we are to write an essay for our English class.
The topic I chose was " When two experts disagree, one of them has to be wrong"
I will have to disagree with this because both statements can be either true or false. Based on the research or evidence both experts bring to the table will determine the correct one. Both experts can also be both right based on someone else's perspective on what the expert has to say. They can also be wrong now depending on what evidence they have and later be right based on this constantly updating world. Once as a kid, I got in trouble because I cleaned my room before I went to school but it was dirty when I got there. It was a lie until I found my self in the same situation, but this time I found my sneaky dog messing up my room...
That was all I could do in three minutes. I felt more confident in this one because I was allowed to embed my past experiences in it and i was a bit more passionate about this topic.
Be Blessed,
Jess Guzman
On this first exercise, Bruce Ballenger, the author of " Curious Researcher" asks us to think of a topic and write on our beliefs on it. We are to write 3 minutes non stop no matter how messy it gets, so here I go.
I chose the topic of my beliefs on marriage and how it may be( I've never been on a relationship so bare with me.)
Marriage is probably the hardest decision you will take. Marriage is when 2 people find love, compatibility, and similarites together to the point where they think they can spend the rest of their lives together. Some deal breakers is whether they want to have kids, adopt, live in the city, or in the country, or other life changing decisions....
Well that's all I could think of in three minute. I believe I psyched myself out because I timed myself and I felt like I needed to know everything on my topic without using past experiences.
Step two in this exercise, Ballenger asks us to pick from a ray of topics and do the same type of fast writing as I did above. Only this time, we are allowed to use our own experiences instead of thinking we are to write an essay for our English class.
The topic I chose was " When two experts disagree, one of them has to be wrong"
I will have to disagree with this because both statements can be either true or false. Based on the research or evidence both experts bring to the table will determine the correct one. Both experts can also be both right based on someone else's perspective on what the expert has to say. They can also be wrong now depending on what evidence they have and later be right based on this constantly updating world. Once as a kid, I got in trouble because I cleaned my room before I went to school but it was dirty when I got there. It was a lie until I found my self in the same situation, but this time I found my sneaky dog messing up my room...
That was all I could do in three minutes. I felt more confident in this one because I was allowed to embed my past experiences in it and i was a bit more passionate about this topic.
Be Blessed,
Jess Guzman
Th beginning of a five week scavenger hunt
Hello Fellow bloggers and fellow classmates!
So for my English class, we are writing an essay about a topic that we get to choose that my college professor chose to call the proposal essay. The purpose of this proposal essay is to persuade our audience for the topic we've picked on what we think on the topic. Interestingly enough, instead of having a week or two on an essay as I am accustomed to in high school, we are to expand our research and thinking for a span of five weeks. The book we are assigned to read gives us guidelines on what we should do through the weeks, so my professor has asked us to blog about it. So, in these next couple of weeks I will be blogging about my thought process and the actual assignments given to us in the book "Curious Researchers" by Bruce Ballenger. I hope you enjoy reading of the thought processes of a freshman in Lancaster Bible College.
Be Blessed,
Jessica Guzman
So for my English class, we are writing an essay about a topic that we get to choose that my college professor chose to call the proposal essay. The purpose of this proposal essay is to persuade our audience for the topic we've picked on what we think on the topic. Interestingly enough, instead of having a week or two on an essay as I am accustomed to in high school, we are to expand our research and thinking for a span of five weeks. The book we are assigned to read gives us guidelines on what we should do through the weeks, so my professor has asked us to blog about it. So, in these next couple of weeks I will be blogging about my thought process and the actual assignments given to us in the book "Curious Researchers" by Bruce Ballenger. I hope you enjoy reading of the thought processes of a freshman in Lancaster Bible College.
Be Blessed,
Jessica Guzman
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