Independent Component 2

LITERAL
(a) I, Camille Erskine, affirm that I have completed my independent component which represents 33.5 hours of work.
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(c) The link to my Senior Project Hours is here.
(d) I attended poetry nights every Tuesday at Da Poetry Lounge, and used what I learned there to host a small poetry slam within the people I know and am close to. I asked them to write poems about something personal that they wouldn't mind discussing with the rest of the group. I also researched articles and conducted interviews.
  INTERPRETATIVE

I attended Poetry Night on Tuesday nights weekly. We weren't allowed to take pictures because they post weekly videos on their website, which I posted on my last monthly blog. After going a couple of weeks, and having conversations and interviews over the phone with my mentor about art psychotherapy, I used what I knew about slam poetry and hosted a small poetry slam. We had a small discussion afterwards, about the effect poetry writing had on everyone. I decided to have it at The Joint on Amar and Grand, we had never been there before and when asking the owner if I could host something small, she said yes. Not only did I go to Poetry Nights, but I also set aside an hour weekly to research an article that would somehow help me throughout my independent component. Some were about the history of slam poetry, how to host a poetry slam, and poetry therapy.

 APPLIED
 By completing this independent component, I realized that poetry therapy is a useful way to help a client. However, in my research, I came across many other types of psychotherapy, such as reading, drawing, music therapy and more. I realized that poetry and art therapy is just one way that a therapist can aid their client in overcoming negative actions and behaviors. By doing this, I realized I should focus on therapeutic techniques as a whole instead of just one of them. I changed my third and final answer from Art Therapy to Using Different Therapy Techniques with Psychotherapy.