06 January, 2012

Hitting the Ground Running

Yesterday was my first official day at my internship. I have my schedule now and was assigned a counselor to shadow. My first task was to read over the curriculum that the facility uses. Then I observed a meeting with a current client. The last thing I did was to listen in on a telephone assessment of a potential client.

At some point I will be allowed to conduct these assessments and meetings myself. I will also be responsible for writing up progress notes of any conversations I have with clients. Granted, a supervisor must read my notes before I submit them, but I still get to write up notes. I will also get to run small groups. However, I do not know which groups I will be running yet.

Overall I am excite about my internship. I think that there will be plenty to learn, and I will develop my professionalism as well. Again, due to issues of confidentiality I am limited on how much I can reveal about my internship. However, the broad strokes should apply to most any type of Social Science internship.

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