Blog #6

 This Blog is an update more so just on how everything has been going. I started my week by making some minor revisions to the initial questionnaire after receiving feedback from patients and Dr. Turner. The revisions were primarily just to make questions clearer, change wording around to be more patient friendly, and provide more room for patients to answer questions. The next big thing I did during the week, was I went and visited my middle school Ratner. At the school I went and met with some of my old teachers along with the school's guidance counselor. I did this to gain perspective on how kids are perceived by by teachers vs how they are perceived by a trained professional in the psychological field. This was weird for seeing through the lens of the teacher having to manage a classroom full of students and notice subtle changes that give away different moods. I first thought it was weird that my teachers still knew my quirks that I had when I was in their classroom, but I was amazed at how they could even see that one student may be in a bad mood while watching the entire class and not singling out the student. This was very different from speaking to the guidance counselor, because she was in a position to only see students one on one, and only hear what the students want to say or share. This gave me a strong perspective on how important it is for someone to have guidance counselor to share sensitive details, but also needing someone in their day to day life whom they can share with. seeing how the teachers take subtle human motions and learn about their students before the students ever truly open up and create a close bond just shows how much the people around you observe without you ever noticing.