Remember always ask a teenager for the answer while they still know everything!

The Field Experience paper was a real buzz for me to do as it finally gave me the chance to be able to delve into the teenage mind being able to listen to a teenager over a period of five days to listen to her concerns, abilities, interests, and to get a deep understanding of this person. Apart from the time spent with the student a short interview was given to find the answers to more statistical question, questions which where hard to bring up in conversation.

I found that the hardest thing of this paper was for the young person to be able to trust you enough to divulge any sort of personal information even though the questions in the interview are relatively unobtrusive towards the young persons life. Once this inbuilt defence mechanism of wanting to be cool wanting to be what the other person wants you to be the conversation can flow and then a true understanding of the young person could be achieved. It wasn’t until about the third week was I able to really connect with the ...