Internship Drama
So I'm headed to the Career and Grad School Expo tomorrow to check out possible grad schools for me to attend, and to try and get myself an internship for the spring semester. So I've made up my resume to hand out if I find anything that would be acceptable. It looks very good. I even took it down to the internship center and had it critiqued. It looks even better with those changes made to it. I'm having a bit of difficulty on the one suggestion they made though. I need to specify which age group I'd like to work with: adults, children, or adolescents.
This is a very tough decision to make. There are both good and bad points to each group. My first instinct is to work with children. I do very well with kids, I enjoy working with them, and they almost always like me. However, I'm not sure how well I'd be able to handle working with a kid with serious issues. The next group I automatically think of is the adults. They're older, more mature, and have more experience in the world. While the clients might have issues, they've been in the real world, and won't go into dramatics as easily as the other two groups, also with them, you've got marriage and relationship counseling, which is an idea I've flirted with often. However, barely being an adult myself, how well would they be willing to listen to me? This brings me to the adolescents. This is the dreaded group, the toughest group to do counseling with. They normally have no desire to be there, and have no interest in fixing whatever problems they are there for in the first place. They require a ton of patience. This is also the age at which most issues start to appear. Depression, eating disorders, drug and alcohol abuse, and sometimes even schizophrenia. For some odd reason, I feel that I'm called to work with this precise group. I'm very patient, and when I think about it, my ability to work with children usually also works with this group. I think I could really make working with the preteens and teenage population really work. I'm still not positive though.
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