Learning various topics in behavior science helps to make an individual smarter, but he or she will never be able to use it in a useful way unless he or she learns to apply it. By interviewing a helping professional, students are able to learn about the path to becoming a helping professional and how they apply the topics they learn in behavioral science classes. In this case, I interviewed Ken Briggs. This helping professional had an interesting path to getting to where he is today. By asking him three main questions, I was able to determine how he became a helping professional, why he enjoys his job, how he uses the Biopsychosocial Model, and what theoretical frameworks he prefers. All of these things helped me to acquire a deeper understanding of the behavioral science knowledge I have learned.
First of all, Briggs explained his path to becoming a helping professional and why he continues to enjoy his career. Originally, Briggs became a shop teacher. During this time, he started to thoroughly enjoy working with children, specifically teenagers between the ages of thirteen and nineteen. Many of his students were trouble-makers and children with broken homes. He used his position as a teacher to guide them through both school and any struggles they were…show more content… In his opinion, he prefers the eclectic model. Briggs explained this model as “taking different things into account.” He said that this model allows helping professionals to combine cognition with semantics. In other words, it allows helping professionals to combine how a person thinks with what he or she is thinking. This goes back to his opinion of helping the client with anything he or she needs rather than focusing on their psychological problems. Because Briggs believes the whole person concept, he does not agree with the Freudian method at all. This model focuses only on the unconscious mind. This completely goes against the whole-person
