First Week of Internship Down
Well, I've just finished my first week of internship, and boy am I tired! It looks like they'll be keeping me quite busy. This week was all about training, but starting next week, I'll be seeing individual clients for around 15 hours per week, running two adolescent groups, doing about four hours of psychological testing each week, working one full day a week doing assessment and emergency services for walk-in clients doing diagnostic interviews and getting them to where they need to go, attending three or four hours of clinical training and two to three hours of clinical supervision, and later on working for ten hours a week in first a children's and then an adult crisis stabilization unit with children or adults with severe psychiatric disorders. That'll make up about half of my responsibilities; the other half will be filling out paperwork to document what I've done, and to request documentation, and to document the documentation I've done, and to correct errors in my earlier documentation. Fun, fun, fun!
I've also met the other five interns who will be working with me at Citrus Health Network. They seem like a good bunch. We're a diverse group. All of us are American, but three of them grew up in other countries (Barbados, Buenos Aires, and Puerto Rico, I think). Three of them are from the Miami area, and three are fluent in Spanish. Most of them are also living with their husbands or boyfriends and/or living close to their families. That makes me feel kind of alone. At the YOC, where I worked before, all the predoctoral interns moved there alone, leaving their support networks behind, so they pulled together and formed their own support network. I was hoping that we would do the same here in Miami. We sort of are, but most of the other interns already have a support network here. Makes me feel kind of alone.
Oh well. I guess that's kind of romantic, right? The lone scholar, reflecting and writing in solitude.
I'll adjust.
I've also met the other five interns who will be working with me at Citrus Health Network. They seem like a good bunch. We're a diverse group. All of us are American, but three of them grew up in other countries (Barbados, Buenos Aires, and Puerto Rico, I think). Three of them are from the Miami area, and three are fluent in Spanish. Most of them are also living with their husbands or boyfriends and/or living close to their families. That makes me feel kind of alone. At the YOC, where I worked before, all the predoctoral interns moved there alone, leaving their support networks behind, so they pulled together and formed their own support network. I was hoping that we would do the same here in Miami. We sort of are, but most of the other interns already have a support network here. Makes me feel kind of alone.
Oh well. I guess that's kind of romantic, right? The lone scholar, reflecting and writing in solitude.
I'll adjust.