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I want to talk about when I have the opportunity of learn social psychology. The learning process was well enriching and the reality of it is that helped me a lot in my personal development.To get to know better why and how is it that people (including ourselves) think, feel and behave, social psychology gives us the answer to many questions, because we are difficult to explain and understand. I learned that to get work with social problems, not only we have to comment or present possible solutions, but we also have to give the necessary tools to achieve what that person wants to.
As people say: “Service is the act of give”; it is a satisfactory vocation that gives joy as much as the person who gives as to the person who receives it. The social psychology practicum, was indeed an important and necessary piece in my life. It was one of my biggests challenges, full of knowledge and opportunities to help and give my services to others. During this process, there were a lot of difficulties and feelings going through. Working with confined was a goal I always wanted to achieve. I am proud enough to say that I was able to make it; I finally got to work with confined people wich is an amazing population. To make the prevention program that our professor asked for, I had to overcome one of my biggests fear, comunication. This whole process required basically comunication, with my working group (classmates), comunication to do the necesity study, with the Correction and Rehab Department of Puerto Rico, with the professor, and so goes on. Why does this represent such a difficulty for me? I have never felt very comfortable insisting, calling and bothering other people to get somenthing I need. Most of the times I feel like I am making other uncomfortable or maybe it is not the right moment to call them and so I used to fail getting them. But, this time was the one I had to insist the most, just because if they gave me the opportunity to enter any penalty institution I had to take it and give the best of me to them. That was exactly what I did, I called and drove multiple times to get all I need it.
One of the biggests difficulties I dealt with was my working group, it did not worked the way I expected. I Think maybe they were not as interested as I was or they just wanted to pass the class and nothing else; the truth is I do not know the answer to that. Thank God and the proffesor, this little inconvinience could not stop the work from continuing, in fact, when we had to give our presentations, my group worked very good and the information they gave fluctuated propperly. I am also happy because I learned how to change my way of seeing things, I bacame more optimistic and now I know what I am capable of.I was able to get the aprobation of our program from the Correction and Rehab Department of Puerto Rico. Once we got there everything was different, an unique experience, the personal treat was great and we learned so much form them. And lets not forget about the confined… I mean WOW! My point of view changed completely, the group of confined they gave us to work with was amazing. It is sad to see educated people, respectful and with goals they want to complete, stay incareated because they failed to the society somehow. Obviously we can not generalize, I am not here to say all confined are good persons but I am not here to judge. I strongly believe in second chances and that is why I wanted to show you that even when obstacles come in the way, there are opportunities out there, its just that it gets a little bit harder to get. Optimmism and perseverance are the key, I can tell you, it is not easy but with help and effort you can make it through. It was very satisfactory to see people who has lost their hope, regain it just because we talked to them with our hearts, because we told them: “we are here because we believe in you” “I do not care about your past, I only care about your desire to achieve your goals” “I do not guarantee anything, but I am here to help”. It is even more gratefull to receive a “thank you” form someone who you have helped.
On the other hand, and to conclude, I must admit I am truly happy with the work I did and I am sure this will help me with my future. It is fundamental to adquire this kind of skills and develop everytime more and more as a better person. Also, I want to thank to Dr. Laurimar Reveron for her excelent work, she never denied me any kind of help, she is a role model. I want to finish with one word that describes my experience in this practicum: enriching.
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