Psychology 215 Final Project

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  1. for my project, I chose to create a full service
  2. counseling center for adolescent girls to receive help for mental
  3. health and mental illness.
  4. Um, I decided to name it.
  5. Shaping the youth and the hours of operation are 8
  6. a.m. to 10 p.m. The whole idea behind this is
  7. that many adolescents, um, struggle with their mental health or,
  8. um, began to struggle with mental illness.
  9. And it can be hard to find a safe, comfortable
  10. environment to talk about what's going on because a lot
  11. of times it's hard to be vulnerable with parents or
  12. at school with a counselor at school.
  13. So having a place like this would make it a
  14. lot easier for young girls to get the help that
  15. they might need.
  16. So the first room I chose to include is a
  17. room where girls can go and get individual therapy.
  18. Um, this is important because a lot of times adolescence
  19. find it hard to be vulnerable with adults and discuss
  20. what's going on, how they're feeling, um, besides with their
  21. friends. So creating a bond with an individual therapist can
  22. be really beneficial and important in, um, dealing with problems
  23. in life and stress and anything else.
  24. So the next room I choose to include is a
  25. room centered around substance abuse counseling.
  26. Um, some adolescents begin to struggle with alcohol or drug
  27. abuse early on, and I think it's important to have
  28. a space that is devoted to giving young girls education
  29. on dhe help if they are struggling.
  30. Eso That's what That's what this room is for, um
  31. and yeah, So the next room I chose to include
  32. is a room centered around eating disorders, because that could
  33. be a really big thing for adolescent girls on Dhe,
  34. not even just eating disorders, just disordered eating and body
  35. image issues.
  36. So this room will have counselors and nutritionists who can
  37. come up with, ah, plan to help young girls live
  38. a healthier lifestyle and, um, recover from their eating disorders
  39. if they have, um, so the next room is a
  40. room dedicated to group therapy.
  41. Um, this, I thought, was really important because group therapy
  42. can be a great way.
  43. Thio form support systems friendships and relate to others who
  44. face similar challenges and to show young adolescent girls that
  45. they're not alone in Theis issues.
  46. They may be facing and give them a space where
  47. they can talk openly about what is going on with
  48. others. Eso I listed a few groups that, um, would
  49. be offered, like DVT II and a eating disorder, recovery
  50. groups and just general like support groups and forming coping
  51. skills. Um, so groups like that would be offered, and
  52. I put a picture in of what the room would
  53. look like.
  54. So the next room is a room for psychiatrists and
  55. getting medication that girls may need.
  56. Um, I thought this was really important because it's an
  57. important part of treating mental illness.
  58. And if girls have access to the proper medications all
  59. in the same place that they go to therapy and
  60. find resource is, um, it would make it a lot
  61. easier for them to be successful in taking and finding
  62. the right medication for them.
  63. So that's why I included this.
  64. So the next room is a lounge.
  65. The lounge would just be for homework.
  66. It would have computers, and it would just be a
  67. place for girls to hang out.
  68. Um, I figured that it should be a positive environment
  69. for girls to come, even if you know they might
  70. be waiting to get resource is or meet with, like
  71. their therapist, Um, they could come and hang out or
  72. if they want to spend some extra time at the
  73. facility. Um, that would be good, too, because not all
  74. adolescents have a home that they feel comfortable to hang
  75. out in.
  76. And it's better than them hanging out with the wrong
  77. people or doing the wrong things.
  78. And so the last room I, um, included is the
  79. Sandlin. It's just a calm room that has dim lighting
  80. and beanbags and coloring books.
  81. Zen music on Girls can relax in here, unwind, and
  82. the whole idea is that it would be a really
  83. quiet space, unlike the lounge where people would be talking
  84. and this and that, Um, this would be for girls
  85. to just relax private space where it's nice and quiet,
  86. and that's it.
  87. That's all the rooms I included.
  88. And here's my references.
  89. I also cited the pictures in here