Internship Reflection Paper

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This week during my internship the pace was a bit slow again. However, I learned a lot during this week. I talked to my supervisor about getting more hours and with his approval I am now doing 10 hours a week. It was great to be able to speak about my hours with my supervisor and that he understood me. During this week I had another one-on-one session with a client. I was instructed to show him a video about teenage strategies that lead to success then ask him questions about the video. I knew that my client was a juvenile, but as I walked into the room, I was surprised to see how young the client was. The client was a twelve-year-old boy that came into the program from sexual boundary issues. As I put the video in I read his file that informed me, he has not been participating …show more content…

One aspect I really disliked was that the silences made me really nervous and it led me to ask closed-ended questions. Even though I wrote down the questions I needed to ask before hand as open-ended questions when I actually said them to him I asked them as closed-ended questions. This led him to be able to answer my questions in one-word answers, which led to more silence. However, I was able to rephrase my questions and asked for more information when needed. At the end of the session I made sure to thank him for participating (the little that he did), because I could tell it was hard for him. Even though I was really nervous about working with a child it went okay and I felt like I received some new information from him. Another aspect of the internship, I liked this week was that I was able to do drug test training online and was able to receive a certificate. I will be able to put this on my resume and be able to use this in my future career. I will also be able to administer drug test on clients whenever needed. I actually really enjoyed doing the tests and found it really entertaining on a slow

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