“Internships provide students with academic experiences that not only complement those resulting from standard classroom or seminar pedagogies but in many cases extend and improve upon them…” (Sides & Mrvica, 2017). Interning at the Deployment Wellness Clinic has overall been an enlightening and positive experience. Reflecting back, this opportunity has allowed me to grow in multiple ways. By maturing into my role as a professional and future mental health care provider I no feel more comfortable in a business setting. Moreover, in working with and empowering others I have found within myself a new sense of confidence and happiness. Largely my goals for working at the DWC surrounded being able to work with patients to do intakes and follow
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Therefore, the DWC was an excellent place to learn more about therapy practices. Additionally, I wanted to help out the agency as much as possible in order to give back due to the opportunity they provided me. An additional goal I has was during this process was to understand the difference between how licensed clinical social workers and marriage and family therapists operated. Whilst at my internship I applied to the social work program and the marriage and family therapy program at East Carolina university. I knew there might be a possibility of being accepted into both programs, which ultimately did happen. Because providers at the DWC work in such close proximity to one another, this setting was ideal in aiding me in eventually making my choice to choose a graduate program to best suit me. The clearest moment of this happening was in a session with patients that suffered from addiction, I always felt like we …show more content…
It is with these tools that I aided patients and their care. For example, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs was an essential tool that I reflected on and when reviewing patient’s placement on the pyramid. It allowed me to better understand a patient’s point of view and lead me to change how we communicated during a session. For instance, those suffering from PTSD frequently feel like their safety and security needs are not met. When they come in typically, they are not wanting to pursue a conversation in love or feelings of belonging. They simply want to feel safe in their own home or go to a store without
Therefore, the DWC was an excellent place to learn more about therapy practices. Additionally, I wanted to help out the agency as much as possible in order to give back due to the opportunity they provided me. An additional goal I has was during this process was to understand the difference between how licensed clinical social workers and marriage and family therapists operated. Whilst at my internship I applied to the social work program and the marriage and family therapy program at East Carolina university. I knew there might be a possibility of being accepted into both programs, which ultimately did happen. Because providers at the DWC work in such close proximity to one another, this setting was ideal in aiding me in eventually making my choice to choose a graduate program to best suit me. The clearest moment of this happening was in a session with patients that suffered from addiction, I always felt like we …show more content…
It is with these tools that I aided patients and their care. For example, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs was an essential tool that I reflected on and when reviewing patient’s placement on the pyramid. It allowed me to better understand a patient’s point of view and lead me to change how we communicated during a session. For instance, those suffering from PTSD frequently feel like their safety and security needs are not met. When they come in typically, they are not wanting to pursue a conversation in love or feelings of belonging. They simply want to feel safe in their own home or go to a store without