To give an update, since my last post, I’ve started conducting one or two intake interviews per week as part of my regular clinical work. An intake interview essentially involves asking a prospective client various questions to find out who referred the client (self, inpatient psychiatry unit, emergency psychiatry unit), what is the client’s main […]
Beginning of 2nd Year Internship
This week I had the first full week of my second year internship (or placement) at the outpatient mental health clinic at a New York hospital. On the first day, the social work department provided an orientation for all the interns in which they provided some background information about the hospital and the different functions […]
Bipolar Disorder Brought to Life
As is the norm for most classes in graduate school for social work, we had to write a final paper at the end of the Human Behavior III class that I took this summer. Human Behavior III is essentially the equivalent of Abnormal Psychology in many other programs in which one learns about the different […]
Interviewing for a Hospital Internship
Yesterday, I had an interview for a social work internship at a hospital and it was a good fit 🙂 Aside from the typical interview questions, the social worker head supervisor described to me all the various departments in the hospital in which social workers tend to be involved. These included: the mobile crisis unit […]
What is Mental Health?
The other day, I had my first summer class in Human Behavior III. This is a class for social workers in training in which mental illnesses and how to make a diagnosis are discussed. My professor first asked us to split up into small groups and come up with our own definitions of mental health […]
