When I chose my major, I had many years to think about what I wanted to do. I know I want to work with adolescents and small children, but I have yet to decide on what profession I should choose. Looking at the course objectives it’s very easy to understand how important it is to perceive and understand others. Especially small children and adolescents. Their brains are forever changing along with their bodies and hormonal changes, so it would be extremely important to understand their point of views from their stand point. This also goes along with attitudes are formed and changed. You’re not ever going to meet a person that doesn’t have an attitude ever. With young children and teens, it’s changing constantly so often that it can be almost predictable if it was your own children. But for someone whose let’s say a guidance counselor, they see unpredictable mood swings and a variety of different behaviors that they need to be ready to handle at any given moment a student walks in for help. I don’t have a problem with discrimination or prejudice as I have worked with many different types of cultures and have many friends from various backgrounds, but discussing the topic is extremely important specially when working in any type of environment especially human services related. For the last objective I think learning about the factors as to why we would particularly like certain individuals and not others are important. From my perspective, I am not fond, nor do I associate myself with people who are thieves and liars. I am not one to judge others, but I can often sense or feel a certain vibe about someone if they are telling me the truth or not. Now I find myself hard to trust strangers. Working in retail I have seen a lot and heard a lot. It would help to better understand why I feel this way.

My expectations for this course is to learn more about the social aspect of human services. As I am extremely comfortable with working around the youth as they seem to not judge people as people do. They are mostly pure innocent, and most will be openly honest and tell the truth. Even with working with a troubled child, when they trust someone enough to confide in them, they will break down and tell the truth. With adults I feel as though it’s easier for them to judge and lie way much more. I hope to learn techniques and different ways to work with people such as families and build a trusting working relationship with them and with their children. To learn to better understand where people come from and where they have been and help them to where they need to be. I hope to gain the knowledge to have a better direction of what profession I want to pursue.

My strategies to be successful in this course would be to submit assignments on time and not wait till the last minute as I love to procrastinate.