APPIC Internship Application Season has Begun!
Internship application season has just started, and making sure you do things the right way, from the start, will help you tremendously along the way. Here are some important things to keep in mind when first starting out on this "journey".
Read MoreDeveloping as a Therapist
Throughout your career as a therapist, you will continue to learn, gain in experience, and develop your own set of priorities and values within the work you do. A sense of progress and growth is essential in order to keep your interest and enthusiasm for your work alive. Studies into the reasons why therapists choose their work and stay in the profession have shown that there is a widespread desire amongst the therapist community to continue learning. Professional growth is one of the main areas that therapists attribute to preventing burn out and keeping their focus. There are always new ideas and developments emerging in our field, and as part of what we do, we are always encouraging people to learn more in order to grow and develop as a person. So inevitably that is something we also should be doing ourselves.
Read MoreFrom Hola to Hello: The Informed Use of Interpreters in Counseling
Can you imagine being in a therapy session where whatever you are saying is just incomprehensible buzz to your client? What a difficult situation to encounter after all your hard training! Now imagine a client struggling with an emotional crisis, and think of the extra effort required to explain the situation in an unfamiliar language. What a serious situation to be in! If you think this post does not apply to you, I have a few questions before you leave this webpage: Have you ever avoided a counseling situation because the client did not speak English? If needed, do you know how to choose an interpreter and the basics of working with him or her? Are you aware of the legal aspects of using an interpreter in a therapy session? With the rapidly growing population of Latino and Asian immigrants in this country, this soon may be a challenge difficult to avoid in your career.
Read MoreDel Hello al Hola: Uso Informado de Intérpretes en la Sala de Terapia
Imagina que estás en una sesión de terapia donde lo que dices es incomprensible para tu cliente. Que situación tan difícil después de tu duro entrenamiento! Ahora imagina a tu cliente quién en medio de una situación emocional se esfuerza para explicarse en un idioma que no le es familiar. Que situación tan seria! Si tu crees que esta entrada no es para ti, tengo unas cuantas preguntas antes de que abandones esta página: ¿Alguna vez evitaste alguna sesión porque tu cliente no habla español? ¿En caso necesario, sabes como escoger un intérprete y trabajar con él o ella? ¿Estás al tanto de los aspectos legales de usar un intérprete en terapia? Con el crecimiento rápido de inmigrantes a este país, ésta pronto puede ser una situación inevitable en tu carrera.
Read MoreThe Fieldwork Plan
In a recent guest blog post for Time2Track, Making Hours Yours, I reflected on how graduate students in psychology and related disciplines may begin to view logging clinical hours as a more meaningful endeavor. Building on that notion, this post explores the features of an effective practicum or internship plan. The post is written based on the big idea that the development of a student’s professional skills should be treated as an integrated process, not a series of isolated activities. The content is adapted from my forthcoming book Demystifying the School Psychology Internship: A Dynamic Guide for Interns and Supervisors, due out in December of 2012.
Read MoreSo You’re Earning Your Doctorate in Psychology…What’s Next?
Greetings! My name is Eric Landrum, and I’ve been a professor in the Department of Psychology at Boise State University for 20 years. Not that long ago, I was serving on a search committee and sitting in yet another session of telephone interviews where my department was hiring a new assistant professor. Having been in the same department for two decades, I’ve participated in hundreds of telephone interviews. On that particular day, I was lamenting to a new faculty member (Elizabeth Morgan) about how unprepared some job applicants were for the interviews as well as their lack of skills and knowledge about interviewing preparedness and etiquette. An applicant might have superb clinical or counseling skills, yet this same applicant might appear like he or she clearly did not receive much mentoring regarding scripts and schemas for successful interviewing. That lamenting turned into a book prospectus, and we went on to publish You’ve Earned your Doctorate in Psychology…Now What? Securing a Job as an Academic or Professional Psychologist.
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