Problem Solving
Using the five steps from Ch. 5 of Thinking Critically, create a plan for solving a problem you are currently facing. For the last step, identify how you will determine the effectiveness of your chosen solution.
Step 1: What is the problem?
Diabetic Mom eating anything she wants.
Step 2: What are the alternatives?
Doctor changing diet and eating habits.
Sugar free products.
Exercises.
Give up.
Reunion with friends
Step 3: What are the advantages and/or disadvantages of each alternative?
With the change of the diet, she will lose fat and her health will improve quickly.
Free sugar products will help to reduce the level of sugar in the blood-vessel and help with the diabetes.
Exercises will help with her heart rate and to control her blood pressure.
Giving up is the worst to do because its accepting her death.
When we do reunion with friends concentrating in the problem she understand it for a while, then she forgets about it and continue eating anything she wants.
Step 4: What is the solution?
Accepting that she have a problem and compromising with the family to eat healthier.
Step 5: How well is the solution working?
The solution is not working bcause she must accept that she have a problem, in fact she knows about the problem, but do not care about it.
Write a 100- to 150- word reflection about this process. How did this process help you devise a solution? How can you use this process with future problems? Will this work for all problems you face? Why or why not?
The process help to devise the solution because it reflects what is the problem in specific. To resolve any problem the person needs to inform himself about the problem to get to a conclusion. Using this tool for resolving problem is very important because it goes by steps of analyzing the problem before reaching the solution such as asking friends to give different viewpoints to the problem. In most cases it will be useful to resolve future