What a crazy week!  I started my final fieldwork placement in an acute care setting at a major hospital.  Talk about culture shock.  It is a whole different world there and I am scrambling to learn what I need to survive the next 7 weeks.  Everyone keeps telling me that I will see a lot there.  I have no doubt about ...

Well I am finally done with fieldwork, have applied for my temporary license and have started preparing for the NBCOT exam. Where I live I must be certified in order to continue working so it is a mandatory process for me. I am nervous for the exam, we took a practice exam before going out on fieldwork and I did not pass it unfortunately it told ...

     Starting tomorrow I am taking over the full case load for fieldwork.  I am more excited than nervous.  I’ve been seeing these kids for 6 weeks now and I am very comfortable working with them.  I’m excited to be on my own and implement some of my own ideas into treatment.  I’ve spent the day working up ...

     This week I finally started feeling like a therapist.  I have been taking the lead in most of the sessions and have even been left alone to run a few sessions on my own.  I have come up with the majority of the interventions and am currently writing all of the notes.  It’s pretty exciting!  I’ve been ...

     Yesterday I found out where I would be placed for my final level 2.  I will be in acute care in a busy inner-city hospital.  I am a bit anxious about this placement.  Up to this point, I have been in adult day care, pediatric physical disabilities and pediatric development disabilities.  I have ...

As I and the group of students I am with finish up our fieldwork we as a group are having difficulty saying goodbye. It is difficult first because we are all leaving on different days and second because we all have our own ways we think we should say goodbye. It seems to me the goodbye has been a little drawn out and should have been planned more ...

     It is amazing to me how much of my experience teaching preschool is helping me with my pediatric placement. Not only has it helped me in relating to the children, but it’s helping me come up with activities as well. This weekend I decided to take it upon myself to come up with some new activities to do with the kids. At ...

I am very excited for Memorial day this year it signifies the last month of my second level two fieldwork. At the end of this month I will be officially done with my master's degree and on to real life work. For now, I am still working just as hard for free. Over my ''vacation'' long weekend I wrote three evaluations and edited three more with my ...

Tomorrow I start my 3rd transition in this fieldwork as the school year starts. The first part of this fieldwork was summer school and for the past two weeks I have been working on the residential units, as you may remember I am working at a private school for children with psychiatric disorders with a residential component for children ...

I am coming to the end of my second level two and all I can think about is being done! I have become very stressed in this setting as it is not one of my strengths. I am working with children in a residential program primarily for psychological issues. I have learned that I am not a pediatric therapist and working with mental health issues is not ...