Debra Wuichet's Speech Analysis
Debra Wuichet is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker from University of Tennessee. She is the Director of Social Services at North Mississippi State Hospital and has been working there for sixteen years. Her topic of the presentation was mental illnesses and schizophrenia. I really enjoyed her speech because I had little previous knowledge of mental illness. Even though I have taken a few classes that discussed the illnesses, I can understand better with stories or a way to imagine a situation and Debra provided that. Information that I thought I knew, was stuff I had assumed from watching television shows and movies. Most of that information is inaccurate. She began her presentation by saying that bipolar disorder and schizophrenia are the
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This means that people that were normal could switch to being paranoid or delusional in high school or college. Suicide risks are important to assess as well as homicidal ideas. Patients need to be protected from their self and protected from hurting others. Debra concluded the presentation with questions from the students and answered each one thoroughly.
Guest Speaker Reflection This presentation changed my way of understanding the disorder by providing information and first-hand accounts of working with people with bipolar or schizophrenia. I know understand that schizophrenia is a disorder that has an onset of late adolescence/young adulthood and the patient will seem completely normal until the onset occurs. I feel differently about people diagnosed with schizophrenia now. I understand now that people with the diagnosis do not think their symptoms are a problem, but instead view them as a normal way of life and do not understand why others do not see or hear the same as they do. After learning this new information, I think that it could affect my work with future clients by understanding why they keep seeking treatment for the same symptoms and cannot seem to get any better on their own. I also think that it strengthened the idea that I had about wanting to work with mentally ill
This means that people that were normal could switch to being paranoid or delusional in high school or college. Suicide risks are important to assess as well as homicidal ideas. Patients need to be protected from their self and protected from hurting others. Debra concluded the presentation with questions from the students and answered each one thoroughly.
Guest Speaker Reflection This presentation changed my way of understanding the disorder by providing information and first-hand accounts of working with people with bipolar or schizophrenia. I know understand that schizophrenia is a disorder that has an onset of late adolescence/young adulthood and the patient will seem completely normal until the onset occurs. I feel differently about people diagnosed with schizophrenia now. I understand now that people with the diagnosis do not think their symptoms are a problem, but instead view them as a normal way of life and do not understand why others do not see or hear the same as they do. After learning this new information, I think that it could affect my work with future clients by understanding why they keep seeking treatment for the same symptoms and cannot seem to get any better on their own. I also think that it strengthened the idea that I had about wanting to work with mentally ill