a). For the experience in which you provided help, I want you to write down six things (3 points each):

1). Describe the event in which you helped (What was the emergency or situation? Where was it? When was it? Who was involved?).

2). Describe Step One of the helping model and how it was applicable to the event in which you helped: Noticing (How did you come to notice that help was needed?).

3). Describe Step Two of the helping model and how it was applicable to the event in which you helped: Interpreting (How did you interpret this as a situation that needed help?).

4). Describe Step Three of the helping model and how it was applicable to the event in which you helped: Responsibility (How did you decide that YOU were the one responsible for providing help?).

5). Describe Step Four of the helping model and how it was applicable to the event in which you helped: Skills (Describe the skills needed to provide help, and why you think you had those skills or that ability, especially if someone else might have been in a better position to help?).

6). Describe Step Five of the helping model and how it was applicable to the event in which you helped: Decision (Describe what finally made you decide to help. Also let me know how your help turned out! Did things work out well? Badly? Unknown?).

b). For the experience in which you DID NOT provide help, I want you to complete just one more question (7 points total):

7). Describe the event (though briefly) and tell me at which step (One through Five) you failed to provide help and why you failed to help. You can discuss all five steps, but if you stopped at – for example – Step Three (Responsibility), then you don’t need to go any further! Please note that I will not accept “I always provide help” as an answer. There is always a time when you failed to help, either because it wasn’t your responsibility, you lacked the time or attention, you didn’t have the skills, or you lacked some other ability (Do you really help every homeless person you see, break up an argument among a couple you are not a part of, or fail to donate every last dollar you have to charity? There will be at least one time, right!)