I am interning at Coalition for Hispanic Family services, was assigned to three sites, the Beacon center, Conner stone, and Cooper Park, where provide after school programs. The population I will face is kids and teens at risk. As a beginner in the Art Therapy field, I am eagerly look forward to this hands-on experience, on the other hand, feel nervous and pressure for working as an intern at the specialized agency.
My previous related experience to the art therapy field is mere teaching art to high school students. I have never experienced in working with children or someone who is mentally unstable. Therefore, I believe that I will be able to handle the teens to some degrees, yet am not confident dealing with the kids at risk. Due to the
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position of intern and inexperience, I have fear of encounter clients and unexpected situations. Adult may understand the position of interns, however, kids do not; hence I have more feeling of responsibility. Based on my experience in teaching art, I thought art therapy would be similar to teaching art and a wide choice of art materials would be benefits for clients, like an art class. Yet I realized that Art Therapy is another field and there are various factors that should be considered in order to bring positive effects of art therapy, different from an art class. In particular, conducting an intake interview with the children’s parents is the most nervous.
In the internship orientation, interns and supervisors had time to discuss and do a role-play activity as an interviewer and interviewee for the preparation of the intake interview. What I did not anticipate in the interview was that there could be parents who are not care about their children. Since the situation was that I could not understand, I have no idea how cope with that.
In addition, different from domestic students, cultural issues will be another challenge for me. Since South Korea where I grew up is mono-cultural, I have not fully acclamatizied yet to the new environment.
Fortunately, a few weeks were given to me to observe in person the sessions, and I am supported by my on-site supervisor and learning from art therapy classes. The points I may miss in my art therapy sessions will be learned from supervisors or art therapy class and classmates. I also would like to share my experience. The relationship between the supervisors and the intern will be an important factor that elicits better effects of art therapy, as much as the relationship between the therapist and the client.
I expect that this supervision class will provide opportunities to learn more about and share other’s perspectives and their own experience. It will be a foundation
for My current nervous state is stressful and brings anxiety, yet I would like to accept my feelings as it is. This feelings prior to proceed my art therapy sessions, which is nervous and excited at the same time, encouraged me to ponder and prepare for the internship in order to show better performance.
Clinical Supervision is the life wire of any health are professional. It is the on the job teaching that takes place between the supervisor and supervisee. It is a lifelong learning used for personal and professional development which is useful both in nursing education and clinical practice. Its benefit cannot be overemphasized as it is known to improve job satisfaction and prevention of stress /burnout. Supervision is important because it allows the novice to gain knowledge, skill and commitment.
As now it can be concluded that to make a supervision session effective it is essential to have a deep understanding of these facts and theories. Characteristics of both supervisor and supervisee are equally important. As supervisors must know their roles and responsibilities at the same time, supervisee should have interest towards reflective practice. Maintaining a good supervisory relationship will be useful to analyse the problems. If there are any signs of underperformance seen in the supervisee, the supervisor can approach them to sort out the matter before it causes
Supervision is an opportunity where supervisees are able to review and reflect on their work in order to do it better. Supervisors bring their actual work practice to another person (individual supervision) and can help review what happened in their own practice in order to learn from that experience. Supervision is for better quality service. In a relationship of trust and transparency, supervisees talk about their work and through reflection and thoughtfulness learn from it and return to do it differently. Supervision is based on the assumption that
Art therapists have experience in at least one previous field of knowledge such as: medicine, psychology, education, visual arts, or social work. They work in a variety of rehabilitation settings with a variety of issues including: mental health problems, learning difficulties, language and communication difficulties, imprisonment, medical problems, sensory or physical problems, stress, emotional and/or social problems. In a prison setting, a therapist is likely to encounter more than one of these issues with each client. Each of these contexts have their own requirements for rehabilitation. Art therapists define what they do by the context they are working in.
Being given the opportunity to intern with the staff at the Family Resource Center in the Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC) has been a tremendous learning experience thus far. The opportunity has truly surpassed my expectation of what I imagined the journey of internship would be like and how it would help me to evolve into the professional arena as a social worker. I see myself transforming and viewing the community in which I live, the clients served, those deprived, and the tremendous job that we as social workers are tasked with to advocate for those in need from a more open-minded perspective. By enhancing and developing my personal and professional skills, such as active listening, observation, and professional comportment, I will be
Since this is my first informational interview, I was struggling to maintain the conversation flow. In the 45-minute interview, there were several times where I had no idea how to respond her answer. I tried hard to keep the conversation flowing by asking any other random questions that came into my mind. I realized that I have to improve this weakness by having more experience for interviewing someone and being more focus of what he or she is talking about.
My vision of Art Therapy was very vague. I always thought art therapy was a form of therapy for distressed or abused children trying to tell a story through pictures or drawings. The American Art Therapy Association defines art therapy as a mental health profession that uses the creative process of art making to improve and enhance the physical, mental, and emotional well being of individuals of all ages. Art therapy is a form psychotherapy that has been practiced for over sixty years and it has been promoted as a means of helping people who find it difficult to express themselves verbally (Crawford, et al., 2010). Art therapy sessions usually start with a form of relaxation such as deep breathing , progressive muscle relaxation, or setting an intention for the session ahead (Hart, 2010). Art therapy is used for several different types of people with diverse illnesses such as: Autism Spectrum Disorder, people living with HIV/AIDS, mental disorders and even Cancer. Studies show that art therapy can lead to increased self awareness of self, as well as improved ability to cope with symptoms, stress, and traumatic experiences (American Art Therapy Association). This form of therapy helps these patients express positive feelings that may not be easy to access in the midst of a fear provoking experience (Hart, 2010). Art therapy help people to identify their feelings, and resolve the issues associated with their illness. Although, my lack of knowledge on this therapeu...
Brooke, S.L. (2004). Tools of the trade: A therapist's guide to art therapy assessments (2nd ed., Rev.). Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas.
Art directives in an art psychotherapy approach are understood in terms of the spontaneous expression that gives access to unconscious material (Case & Dalley, 2006). The triangular relationship between the art, client, and therapist is considered more important than the final art product. Case and Dalley (2006) describe an art psychotherapy directive in which a child client is asked to paint a series of...
“To use art, counselors need to learn how to integrate art therapeutically into counseling. In using art, they need to emphasize process over product and clarify the potential benefits to the student. It has been suggested that art therapy fits nicely into the American School Counselor Association’s national standards.” (Howard, 2017).
Supervision was defined by Bernard (2005) as the realization of our supervisees that they understand the therapeutic process and themselves a tad better than when they entered supervision, and our own realization that we have been players in the professional development of another.
The basic knowledge about supervision theories and processes would help them transition into a supervisory role. Even at sites that do not ask internship students to be supervisors, they are usually asked to take a part in a supervision group where they hear other clinicians’ cases and give feedback. In such situations, students need to demonstrate interpersonal skills, clinical skills, theoretical knowledge, and skills in giving constructive feedback. I believe that information provided in this course would assist them to be successful in these supervisory and consultant roles at their
When we were first given this assignment I had not put much consideration into it. I thought we were to ask a couple of questions, it would all work itself out and I would be done. But this was not the case. The thought and reflection put into interview questions really surprised me. There was far more factors other than the questions you were asking, because you were also dealing with people, people who are giving you there free time, their attention and opening themselves up to you a stranger, so there were far more responsibilities then what were initially at hand.
This past week was my fourth full week on the medical/surgical floors, and while four west is still my primary unit, I had a unique opportunity to attend a school re-entry with the hem/onc child life specialist, Taryn, and the hem/onc art therapist, Emily. The school re-entry was for a 12-year-old male, who has recently finished treatment at Norton Children’s Hospital for Burkitt’s Lymphoma. This particular school re-entry was on Wednesday, February 1, 2017, and included a presentation and art activity with 130 seventh and eighth graders at a Catholic school in a higher socioeconomic status area of Louisville, Kentucky. For this program, I mainly observed and helped to pass out/complete/clean up the art activity, but I thought that this