Intern Experience In Human Service

To be honest, I might have either added or changed my field of passion from this human services program. Originally, I wanted to get into the mental health field of human services/social work and possibly work in a hospital to care the patients. Instead, I might deal more with children (ages 16 years old and below) as examples from my experiences from my last two internships. As for how I got to this current position, it was from selecting internships between semesters. When ever a clinic I wanted to internship, I had to resort to my backup locations when ever a clinic is not looking or interested in an intern or got no response from them at all. At first, I thought it as both a temporary semester with kids and to learn from a new population. In the end, it was more of actually wanting to volunteer these locations after finishing the term of internship. In honesty, I never wanted to nor think I would work involving children or young adults. I felt that a few issues were the reasons for this previous preference. The first was …show more content…
Not exactly sure, but I feel it 's from two reasons. Interning at my second location, the population was in way both dealing with both the mental health population and the younger population. Originally, all the intern positions for the morning adult program were taken so thought to take the afternoon teen program. At first I thought it would be a semester only experience in the younger population of mental health. The more I interact with them, the more I begin to accept this learning experience. Part of this early acceptance was in part of my younger past. From elementary to the first half of high school, I have a learning disability and was placed in a resource class; a transitional class between a special education class and a “normal” class. Perhaps it 's empathy and experience that played a role that allowed me to “fit in” with this