Interview Essay - Beverly Smith

The idea of motivational interviewing builds on Rogers' theories about people having freedom of choice and changing through the process of self-actualisation (Davidson, 1994). Miller and Rollnik (1991) describe it as a technique in which the heath practitioner becomes a helper in the change process while expressing acceptance of their client. A central goal of motivational interviewing, says Geldard & Geldard (2012), is to help resolve the ambivalence which prevents clients from realising their personal goals and to facilitate positive change. Motivational interviewing is mostly utilised to counsel those troubled by addiction (not just substance, but also behaviours).

Beverly Buchanan was adopted as a child by her aunt and uncle, Marion and Walter Buchanan. She grew up in South Carolina where her father was the dean of the School of Agriculture at South Carolina State College. She was often with her father when he visited farmers across the state. She became fascinated with the architecture, environment, and people she meet. While she was working as a health educator she started reconsidering her career. Like van Gogh she started pursuing art after a previous career.

Murray Meisels was born on April 19, 1924, in Brooklyn, New York. He grew up in New York City and came to California in 1941 to attend college at USC. After graduating from USC, he attended the University of Oregon Dental School and the University of Buffalo Dental School. Murray served in the military during WWII and the Korean War. In 1948, he married Francis and they made their home in Buffalo, New York. They raised two children, and Murray owned a dental practice for over 40 years. While raising a family and practicing dentistry, he completed a Masters degree and taught at the University of Buffalo Dental School. In 1991 Murray retired from private practice, but continued teaching part time at the

Being back at Auburn gave Cline a sense of reassurance and happiness because she could teach what she felt passionate about at the college she attended and loved. She

She is intelligent, hardworking, witty, charismatic, dedicated, loyal, and is an excellent speaker, reader, and writer. As a student, she read two or three grade levels above her grade level and was well read—reading most of the classics at a young age. I was quite impressed, but not surprised when she graduated at the top 10 percent of her high school class and graduated from The University of Texas in

Stephanie Thompson is the Executive Principal of Farragut High School. When she first started at Farragut High School, she the parents and community stated that they never knew what was going on in the school. Mrs. Thompson’s first priority was to establish ways to connect with the school community. She started by welcoming staff, students and parents every morning not only at the doorway but in the parking lot as well by directing traffic. Some days Stephanie would ask the students about their family or have short conversations about their interests. Her goal was to know her community at a deeper level than what was expected of her.

The person I interviewed was my mother, Holly Parker, her job currently is working at a pizza shop known as Little Caesar's, Holly was born in 1976 on January 27th. Holly’s parent's names are George and Carol McGee, and one of her siblings is named Nathan. Holly has lived in Ohio but is mostly in Bowling Green, she has moved to Sandusky once then moved back to Bowling Green. A school Holly attended was Crim Elementary School. Holly is 5 feet tall (Yes, literally), has brown hair, hazel eyes, and usually wears a yellow or pink hoodie (unless it’s in the summertime, then she will wear a T-Shirt.).

This interview has taught me that I don’t know a lot about what really went on throughout history. There are things such as textbooks but, they don’t tell how an individual felt or what it was like for each person to experience certain things during the same time period. For example, it is easier to generalize about how people felt during a major historical event or just living during a certain time period, such as the Great Depression, but it is another to actually get to know how it actually affected people. Everyone reacts to things differently and by generalizing it, it does not allow us to fully understand things that went on throughout and how the people were possibly changed by an experience.

I interviewed my Aunt Ailine Elizabeth Harris Watterson. She is a forty-five-year-old homemaker born April 16, 1954 and raised here in Johnson City, Tennessee. I chose to interview her on the Civil Rights Movement because she had to face a lot of obstacles her late childhood and young adulthood years. Here is a series of questions on the Civil Rights Movement that I asked her and the answers that she gave me.

In “A Balanced Psychology and a Full Life,” Seligman, Parks, and Steen simply define happiness with three key components — “pleasure, engagement, and meaning” — yet it is such a broad definition. People hold different standards of pleasure, engagement, and meaning that define their own true happiness. Happiness is immeasurable. Y___ pointed out that Valerie was “at war with the size of her body, her desire to smoke

Happiness is many things to different people. People have referred to the pursuit of happiness for hundreds of years. In the book, My Antonia by Willa Cather, the main character, Jim Burden, quotes happiness as “…to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.” Antonia Shimerda, the person who impacted Jim’s life directly and indirectly for all of his life would view happiness in a different way.

After interviewing BT, I don’t necessarily see her from a different perspective. I realized there was a lot I still didn’t know about my grandma. Now that I’m older we have grown apart. Unless something out of the ordinary happens, we only get together eight to ten times a year. This interview helped me to gain a better understanding what makes her the person she is today.

Throughout this semester this class has allowed me the privilege to get to know people who I would have never talked to on a personal level while also having the chance to advance my interviewing skills while getting to know them. Not only did these interviews and experiences display my strengths such as being able to adapt to certain situations but even more importantly it helped show me my weaknesses. After one interview and the next, I had to learn what role I had to play as within each interview I had to adapt to find my specific role as it varied from one to the next. Having the opportunity to interview a handful of people from the beginning of this semester to now has also taught me that the person you are interviewing can have a tremendous effect on if the interview goes successfully or not for reasons that I will elaborate on further in my paper. Lastly, one of the greatest lessons I learned about while interviewing people would be how to properly prepare to make sure the interview itself go as smoothly as possible. All of these factors have helped me grow in becoming a better interviewer and have helped me grow as a person.

Due to the great technology development, consuming media sources such as news, music, and film on the Internet has become a normal activity for the people live in the 21st century. However, it is unpredictable for the people in the last century. Then, how do the people who have experienced these entire changes feel about it? Do they fit in the new era? With those questions, I interviewed a professor in Ohio University named William Condee.

Happiness is not a strange term to us. We usually use that word to express our feelings in every day. Additionally, more than a word, “happiness” is what we really need and always seek in life. However, finding and understanding deeply its meaning is not easy. The online dictionary, “vocabulary.com” defines, “Happiness is a sense of well-being, joy, or contentment. When people are successful, or safe, or lucky, they feel happiness.” Thus, we always wonder if we are happy or how could we be happier in our life. Happiness, therefore, becomes a goal for everybody.