Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
  
  
• (a)“I, Aaron Joseph Martinez, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 32 hours and 30 minutes of work.”
  
• (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component. 

First, Michael B., and Harold Alan Pincus. "Developmental Disorders." Developmental Disorders. Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel of Mental Disorders. 4th ed. Vol. 1. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Association, 2000. 1-943. Print. DSM-IV-TR. 

• INTERPRETIVE 
• Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  

What I did, which is detailed in my additional hours log, is vital to my understanding of Clinical Psychology because I am in the trenches and doing the work that one would expect to have in the profession. I am helping people through their troubles and carrying their burden's with me.

Facilitated learning keyboard used during one-to-ones for communication with those who have the inability to speak and are unknowable with sign language.

Basic notes outline on what a consumer might do during his/her daily life upon observation.

How some paperwork regarding consumers may look. What's shown is a mock-up, due to the nature of my work and the privacy regarded in it.

How my binder and schedules regarding incoming appointment dates and consumer profiles are organized.

One of my binders that gives a detailed overview of how to conduct my manner of work professionally.

The bags I use to go from office to office, house to house, session to session. What would be stored inside would be detailed reports on consumer life habits, things to watch out for, and other vital points that would make identification of disability much easier.

Wrap cards used during a group therapy session and several cooperation games to build trust amongst each other.

• APPLIED
  How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this. 

My additional hours helped me understand my topic much better because I was applying everything I had learned through textbooks such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel of Mental Disorders and using these identification techniques in the middles of sessions. When dealing with certain people and the certain traits that make a disability more prominent, I remembered the cautions stated in the DSM about trigger words or objects that may erupt responses, negative or positive, from consumers. I took these to my advantage and refrained from using authoritative words such as, should, now, and must when dealing with a consumer with deep emotional scars rooting from past domestic violence. It was through scenarios like this that I fully realized the importance of study, and the implementation of what you study into the actual thing.