CBS show “Survivor”. When my dad insisted I socialize with my friends, I invited them over and we all watched “Survivor” together. I was obsessed. Winning the game involves a certain finesse that changed from season to season, yet the key elements remained consistent. This show offered a new perspective on how to approach and adapt to challenges. At the beginning of a “Survivor” season, all the contestants are dropped into an unknown environment. This is how I felt when I started my undergraduate
training for advocates of domestic violence (DV) survivors and their families. This paper reflects my experiences as I worked through the first three sections of training: the history of the DV movement; the key requirements of DV advocacy; and safety planning. The primary thread throughout the training sections is the importance of providing advocacy based on survivor-empowerment and meeting clients where they are. In this paper, I also explore my role as a mental health counselor in an interdisciplinary
culture. The career path I chose has been influenced by family and those who support me and encourage me during school. The career path I have chosen is to work with women survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. I will discuss how self-assessments helped me gain an understanding which careers might be worth pursuing because of my interests. In our society, we often hear the idea of a job and career being vastly different. A job is working to make money to survive, in comparison, to pursuing a
and those who support me and encourage me during school. The career path, I have chosen is to work with women survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. I will discuss how self-assessments helped me gain an understanding, which careers might be worth pursuing because of my interests. I have always been encouraged by my family to volunteer to gain an understanding that experience is valuable, even if the work is unpaid. While volunteering, it allowed me to see if I could handle dealing with
stable life. When choosing a college, students make sure that the school meets the criteria of their needs as students. Safety is something that most students do not think about while choosing a campus. A school is a place where everyone should feel secure. Most students do not believe that something bad can happen to them until something does go wrong. Sexual assault incidents are on the rise. Therefore, awareness of these situations should increase as well. College is a great time in a person 's
My Experience with the Cultural Context of Immigrants and Refugees Description of Context The cultural immersion for the immigrants and refugees group is taken from a first-hand experience with a family from hurricane Katerina. Livingston, Alabama is right off the interstate 59/20, which a main evacuation route from the gulf coast. When hurricane Katerina hit in 2005, several families found comfort in our small town. I was able to form a relationship with a family that occupied one of my friend’s
to get ready for Thanksgiving, finals, and Winter Break. However, during this time, my life was forever changed. In 2014 I was raped, twice, by someone I thought was my friend, someone I trusted, someone who I had even had consensual sex with once before. Sometime during the night, I can no longer remember certain details, my attacker got on top of me as I was doing homework and started to forcefully take off my clothes, trying to entice me into having sex. He then forced himself inside me and raped
saying that has applied to my life for many years. It has given me strength when the darkness of a series of events stole so much from me. When you are a child you look to family to protect you from the horrors of the outside world. You ultimately find out that it may be those protectors who hurt you the most. “I am a survivor of child sexual abuse.” At the tender age of eight my cousin molested me. Three years later, as if a neon ‘victim’ sign had been placed on my forehead, a trusted family
Communicative Situation: On February 23, 2016, Noemi Ban, an Auschwitz survivor, came to Western Washington University to share her experience. The hour and a half long speech took place in one of Westerns largest auditoriums, Arntzen Hall. This lecture hall seats over 400 people, and there were people getting there early so they can get seats of their choice. I remember going to the bathroom at around 5:30, when there were only a couple of people in the hall, but once I returned the whole place
are “extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness” (Linley & Joseph, 2004, p. 16). Coping styles for dealing with stressors and trauma vary among cultures and individuals. However, studies indicate certain coping styles