Summary My second interviewee, Margaret Anton, is a fourth year clinical psychology student at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. While she is in clinical psychology program as a graduate-student at UNC, she also works as a research assistant, where she helps to research how technology can improve mental healthcare for low income families. To get to where she is now she went through three years as a post-doc research assistant at the University of Virginia, the school where she also majored in psychology as an undergraduate. In total since graduating from college she has been working as a student for 7 years. Ms. Anton’s typical day as a student/research assistant consists of a lot of court work, research, and clinical work. As
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And I am pretty sure I am not the only person that feels that way about Ms. Anton. That is the same kind of positive impact that I would like to have on every person that really gets to be around and know me. The one thing that I really didn’t like was trying to find people to interview because it is a very boring and annoying process honestly. Another good thing I got from this interview is that I learned. I learned that there are many different fields of psychology. And although this career would be a great fit for me because I love to help people in whatever way I can, I would rather help them physically. That is why I plan on becoming a Physical Therapist (PT). Then possibly in the next 10 years opening up my own practice once I become a phenomenal …show more content…
And whether or not I choose clinical psychology as my career I will definitely be staying in contact with Ms. Anton whenever I see the need of her assistance. Hearing about everything that she has to go through to become a clinical psychologist is very motivating to me because the road to become a physical therapist is very similar when it comes to the amount of time after graduation is needed to be put into become a physical therapist. Also, shadowing is something that I have to do like in clinical psychology to not only be able to become a physical therapist but to truly know what it takes everyday to actually do the many jobs that a physical therapist must do.
I can tell the Ms. Anton loves her journey as a clinical psychologist and I hope that I will also as a
And I am pretty sure I am not the only person that feels that way about Ms. Anton. That is the same kind of positive impact that I would like to have on every person that really gets to be around and know me. The one thing that I really didn’t like was trying to find people to interview because it is a very boring and annoying process honestly. Another good thing I got from this interview is that I learned. I learned that there are many different fields of psychology. And although this career would be a great fit for me because I love to help people in whatever way I can, I would rather help them physically. That is why I plan on becoming a Physical Therapist (PT). Then possibly in the next 10 years opening up my own practice once I become a phenomenal …show more content…
And whether or not I choose clinical psychology as my career I will definitely be staying in contact with Ms. Anton whenever I see the need of her assistance. Hearing about everything that she has to go through to become a clinical psychologist is very motivating to me because the road to become a physical therapist is very similar when it comes to the amount of time after graduation is needed to be put into become a physical therapist. Also, shadowing is something that I have to do like in clinical psychology to not only be able to become a physical therapist but to truly know what it takes everyday to actually do the many jobs that a physical therapist must do.
I can tell the Ms. Anton loves her journey as a clinical psychologist and I hope that I will also as a