Hello everyone. I am Glenn Spencer and I am a sophomore in
the Honors College program here at Rutgers Newark. I am currently working towards
earning my bachelor’s degree in psychology and hopefully a master’s in social
work shortly thereafter. After I obtain the previously mentioned degrees, I hope
to become a successful adolescent psychiatrist and help teens and children
through traumatic and emotionally challenging times. Growing up, I’ve had my
fair share of emotional challenges and traumatic events to overcome- most,
though, I’ve had to tackle on my own due to the fact that my parents were also
heavily affected by said events and couldn’t even help themselves to come to
terms with what had happened. As a child, and even as a young adult, no one
should have to shoulder any burden, big or small, on their own. But it was the
fact that I’ve had to shoulder such burdens on my own that I’ve grown and
learned many things far beyond my years. Of the many things I’ve learned as a
result of such hardships, one thing is that no one should have to take on life
and its burdens alone. The other thing I’ve come to learn is that it is my job
to help those who can’t help themselves and to be there for those people who don’t
have someone to help shoulder their burdens. As a psychiatrist, I am bound to
have more than a few female patients and from this class I hope to learn a bit
about how the female mind works what makes women ‘tick.’ Seeing how the
majority of this class is of the female gender, I wouldn’t be surprised if I learn
more than a bit from all the heavy opinions and emotionally charged comments
that will get thrown around the classroom. I look forward to the intellectual
debates that will ensue and hope that the semester yields more laughter and mutual
understanding than animosity between the sexes.
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A man on top of the world juxtaposed by the same man bearing the weight of the world upon his shoulders.
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A chart depicting the stages of adolescent development. Keep
in mind that a single traumatic event at any stage prior to adulthood can be
severely detrimental to an individual’s social-emotional development.
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