Its Over
So in my last post or so I was complaning about the internship process. Yeah so that is over and I am glad for it to be over. To have to make such an important decision in a matter of minutes was actually easier then I thought it would be. I actually made a ranked list of my preferencs and waited for phone calls. When the call was negative, i highllited the place in red strikethrough bold. When I was offered a site, I placed them on hold, and then called the sites ahead of it. While waiting I highlighted the site with a green color. Eventually i worked my way up the list and found a site I relaly liked that wanted me.
So where am I going? Well part of that I cannot say. What i can tell you is that I will be working with people with severe psychopathology in an elderly population. This site presents soem inteesting challenges in that some of these people need different types of psychotherapies but are dealign with other issues. For example a person at this place might be suffering from Schizophrenia as well as Alzheimers. I should learn alot from here and get a lot of good expierence.
From what I understand I am going to spend between 20-24 hours there per week, so I will be getting a lot of expierence for the year long placement. It should be an exciting oppertunity. I am just glad the application process is over!
3 Comments:
Congrats Jim! That's great news. Sounds like you figured out a good way to deal with the stupid process, too.
Don't forget to hide the scissors.
>:-( (-: <- schizo emoticon
...Ah, I shouldn't make fun of a serious condition but I couldn't resist.
Hey BT,
Glad you worked it out to your advantage. Ya know, two of the people in our group here have had experence working with Schizophrenic adults and youth. They seem a bit tweaked by the experience, but better people for it. So you do this for like half time and the rest of the time is in the classroom?
Good Luck and thanks for the regular comments.
I work with the schizophrenics 3 days a week for 20 hours and take classes 2 days a week. I think ti will be interesting to say the least. What kinds of things did your friends do? Were they psychology people or more social work?
My pleasure for posting on your site. As long as you keep writing interestign pieces, I will comment as i have the time:)
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