Biopsychosocial Interview

The biopsychosocial framework help us understand whether a child is developing on track with their age delayed by “one useful way to organize the biological, psychological, and sociocultural forces on human development” (Kail and Cavanaugh, 2016, p. 8). The biopsychosocial framework works is useful by helping understand what forces affect the development that consists of biological forces, psychological forces, sociocultural forces and lifecycle forces. These are really important to the child development to track with their age or delayed if any. Biological forces are based on the genetic and health related that might affect the development. Psychological forces are based on the cognitive, emotional and personality

I was excited to talk to Ajaz, my best friend from the age of four to thirteen again. We’d had an inconsistent friendship (though we’d never fallen out) over those nine years: from spending every class and break together for our first couple of school year together, to barely speaking to each other later in primary school. Prior my family and I moving to Canada, however, we were as close as we had been aged four. Ajaz was already sat at our pre-arranged meeting point – a small park that neighboured our primary school – when I arrived our pre-arranged meeting point. We walked through the neighbourhood, passing the house in which I grew up. The conversation was predictably awkward, nevertheless, I expected the conversation to loosen up after

As I was preparing to conduct my interview I tried to think about my perception of the writing requirements as a doctor. Some of these thoughts were confirmed and I was also introduced to the key concept of having to balance the amount of time that is spent writing and time spent interacting with the patient in a clinical setting. I decided to interview Corey Steinbrecher, he is a third-year student at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, and is currently writing a research paper as part of his course work. This research paper is in addition to the typical patient summaries that he would write while treating patients. In regard to this optional writing, he says, “During the first three years of medical school there has not been a large amount of required writing, but I am currently writing a research paper that I hope to have published in a peer reviewed medical journal”.

There is one certain person in my life that made an incredible impact on how I live in my life. She once was my girlfriend but then she broke up with me, but we hit a roadblock in our friendship in July of this year. Currently, she wants to put the pieces back together as friends, which we are, but she seems to want more like she wants us back but she restricts herself from saying what she really wants between me and her. I don’t know about her; she means a lot to me and she knows that. In the end, I hope she makes the right choices in her life and I hope me and her can make something happen

The individual I choose for my interview is an eighty-five year old, Hispanic female and goes by the initials of E.C. I arrived at my client’s residence, which was an apartment building, and the first thing I noticed was that there is no wheelchair access available. I was let in the building and I went up three flights of stairs to get up to the apartment because there was no elevator available. My client’s daughter, V.C, greeted me at the door and she was very warm hearted and welcoming. Once I stepped inside the apartment I noticed the hot temperature, the cluster of furniture and the loving family that had visited for the day. This two bedroom, one bathroom apartment had a family of five, E.C included, living here. Two out of the three were

We have been very close friends for a while and this past year when she moved to Guelph, it has been a difficult times our friendship. The distance between us has resulted in a weaker friendship. The only way of communicating with Lauren was over phone or email. She came home for a few weekends during the year. When we got together the first time she got back, our friendship felt as if nothing happened but then the more and more she came home our friendship started to change. After she left for University I started to notice that her views on certain subjects changed. Even though we would sometimes argue it seems that our friendship always stays intact since we have been friends for a long time and we would work things out in order to remain friends. Ascending Borders from Secrets & Confidences, focuses on the friendship amongst Marisa and Ronit. They became really close friends when they were at the University of California, but once Ronit left for Israel they could only communicate through phone, mail and email. The first time they reunited in Israel, they continued their friendship as usual. After a lot of time spent apart, Marisa noticed that Ronit’s political views have shifted and she was upset with Marisa for working with the Tikkun Community. They got into a big argument and Marisa stated: “I thought about calling Ronit. I thought about how terrible it would be if she got killed in a bombing and we had not

Juniors sister (Mary) who looks like Jennifer Lopez and has acne scars that make her look tough and pretty at the same time and didn’t do nothing except live in the basement and watch TV for several years. Mary left with her boyfriend to live somewhere else because when Junior left the rez, she looked up and because of this she followed his bad example and choose to leave the rez. Mary married an indian guy who played cards whom she has only known for a short time. In the book Junior says, “she got married, wow I was freaked, but my mother and father were absolutely freaked,” (89). This shows that sometimes family members make bad choices. And the choices that we make individually affect the whole family. Juniors family was very disappointed when Mary made this choose, but there was not much they could do about but learn to support her

The client is a 46 years old woman whose roles included caring for her siblings and being a mother to her three children. She is very outgoing, loving, and kind and saw the best in her siblings even when they are divided emotionally. Her occupations included attending church, doing laundry, cleaning, visiting friends and family. The family support she received came mainly from her brother who she resides with temporarily due to a surgery to insert a pacemaker. The pacemaker was inserted shortly after she received a terminal diagnosis of an autoimmune disease. In the process to recovery she relied heavily on her social support of church members.

It was the first week of summer, after graduating high school. Most of my friends were gone away to college or had jobs. Parents working and older siblings have moved away. It was the beginning of adulthood. I owned nothing to my name, I had no job, no car or any motivation. The only useful thing I had was a friend. Nancy, she has been in my life since we first met in middle school. How we became friends, she gave me two dollars. Those two dollars made our friendship. Just like Esperanza gives up her three dollars for a bike and some friends, Nancy did the same. She willingly gave up her lunch money, so I wouldn't starve at school. Since that day we became best friends. We had the same struggle and we almost have everything in common, and we

Jeanette is a young adult in New York city. She isn’t poor or wealthy, she is in the middle class. But in her past with her family, she was poor, always moving place to place for work. As a young girl Jeannette was tougher than your average little girl, a tomboy type of girl. When she was thrown out of the car in the desert, she cried but then stood up and walked to a place to be warm but went back so they can find her. She is a smart girl. By her description she is a skinny white kid that is very knowledgeable and when in a fight she doesn’t complain about it she just walks past her dad.

When I went through the issues with my parents, I knew I was depressed and I was not myself. I took the initiative to go to the doctors, as a physical exam. My doctor knew that I did not just go in for a physical exam; that is when she brought a behavioral specialist to evaluate my mental health. We talked about the issues I was experiencing with my parents and the grudge I felt towards my father. I also believe I was having some relationship issues at this time. Yet, I think that I did not get full closure on some of my family issues I had experienced. The specialist did her best with trying to talk about the issue, but I still feel that I have unresolved issues with my mom and how she has had a major influence on many of the things that have happened with my brother and our life. I think this factor will be an issue of vulnerability when a client talks about family issues that until this day I can’t seem to let go. It will be difficult to try not to go back to the issues that I have especially if the client has issues that they themselves can’t let

Jillian and I had been the best of friends for almost five years. We did everything together: having Bible studies, going to the pool together, and generally amusing ourselves with the usual innocent pastimes. However, we had been drifting

She was very nice, sweet and friendly. I invited her to my house, we hung out to other places outside of school and she was VERY shy there too. 1 year passed, we chatted through Facebook and we made videocalls through Skype and watched movies together. It was great, because she was a good listener and I started telling her my inner secrets. She was also a great advisor and a great friend; she never betrayed me or failed in being a good friend. Now, we're in Senior year, and we're the bestest friends ever. And I REALLY am grateful of having her in my life - she literally made me a better person and made me feel hopeful again... This is just a shoutout to everyone who reads this; people can be more awesome than you think, and they can even change your

Rachel and I have a loaded history of friendship over the past seven years. We’ve seen each other through thick and thin and have always supported each other through each trial. Rachel is someone I consider a true friend from her loyalty to empathize with me, no matter the situation. This girl has stood by my side through my drooling days of elementary schools, always willing to talk to me: the new dorky kid at school. In my awkward preteen days, I would practically stick to her like glue yet she never got annoyed. Rachel would never mind countless teachers screaming at her just so she could talk to me in class. She’s always bought me a Christmas present every year, with the most sentiment a person could ever receive. Though it has been trifling years of anguish for the loss of loved ones and melancholy situations, Rachel has never abandoned me. One time, Rachel stood up to my father while I was getting screamed at for failing the seventh

Allison and I’s relationship is about to get lost in the abyss. I was going to be the cool big girl and go to fifth grade at the new school. That’s exactly what I did. I had left my best friend since diapers and moved across town to a new school. There started to be this tremendous tug between our friendship, making new friendships, school and after school activities. It began to be hard to talk for ten minutes a day on the phone. Slowly but surely we made new friends and both got new best friends that we were inseparable with but will always consider each other very close. We say that we are life long friends. Allison and I have one of those really special friendships that no matter if we don’t talk for months when we meet again it’s like we were never apart. Just a friendship I wanted to share.