First Things First

client-centered, and psychodynamic therapies into the sessions. Most of the basic skills used were active listening, asking open-ended questions along with restating feelings and emotions with unconditional positive regard. During the beginning of the first session, these techniques encouraged a touch of client-centered therapy; which allowed Ms. B to speak freely about her past, passions, family including her relationship with God and purpose in life. By being empathetic and reflecting her…

Today, I want to talk about how interesting it is to speak another language that is not your mother tongue language and see young children acquire language so quickly. I was born in California but raised most of my time in Korea. Since my first language was Korean, I consider English my second language and therefore, I had to “learn” English when I was about 7 years old. Human language is extremely interesting in the fact that when you are young, you learn it naturally without a great deal of…

the French. First, they were looking to trade and work with the natives. As the text mentions, the colonists relied on corn from local tribes to survive. They needed the natives’ trade to live. The French were not as reliant on natives simply because that were just looking to exploit native labor for pelts. In fact, as we know, the fur trade was so profitable that natives become reliant on the French. Jamestown was looking to trade for food and other necessities, rather than things they…

something wicked this way comes. Words written by a man who everyone has heard of. William Shakespeare is often considered the greatest playwright of all time. What made Shakespeare so famous? He joined the things that people of his time liked and that people still like today in his plays. Many things influenced Shakespeare and his plays. What inspired the man to write, or was he simply a natural-born genius? Was he gay, bisexual or straight? “William Shakespeare surpassed the legacy of his…

clearly, I realized that he was excited to help me in my job as an intern case manager. He knew from previous sessions that I took his input very seriously which made him more receptive of the intervention. As I explained the specifics during the first session, he did not ask to much in depth about the scale. As we continue to use the scale the following weeks, I notice that he had developed a good understanding of how this was…

North America is currently in the era of truth and reconciliation for First Nations people. Since Stephen Harper’s public apology for Canadian residential schools, education, literature, politics are all in a stage a recuperation. In Joseph Boyden’s Legend of the Sugar Girl and Jo-Ann Episkenew’s Taking Back Our Spirits a consistent theme of intergenerational trauma is present. Both Boyden and Episkenew express concerns with matters regarding health, family, and identity. Boyden’s literature…

This part of my life was going under Leidenfrost point, where every thing I earned was washing away on either my lunch or my dinner. After approximately two years of harsh survival, my parents took me with them to a place called ‘home,’ which I had not seen or could not remember. My parents acted very indifferently, yet…

beautifully done film about the issues first nations face in Canada. The film mostly revolved around the controversial Treaty No. 9 signed in 1905, which essentially stole the land from native communities without fully telling them that is what the document would do. Native communities were instead told that the treaty was one of peace and unity, not one of ownership. They were told one thing to get their signatures on a treaty that said a very different thing. If the native people had known…

human nature to judge others by their actions and appearance without realizing that they are doing so. For the past couple of weeks, I have been watching Tell My Story, Blind Date, which is a series of YouTube videos by SoulPancake that make videos of things that they think matter, and the specific video…

enlightenment. This increased trade and exploration. It also expanded Europeans interest in the outside world that they have not thought about since the fall of the Roman Empire. The Crusades increased hatred between the Muslims and Christians. The first four crusades took place in Jerusalem, the Holy…