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Reflection On Clinical Experience

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How exciting that I am officially in week two. When I think about why I am excited, I reflect to how much I have accomplished this past year at school, work, and placement. Not only I am increasing my clinical skills as a MSW Intern, but I am also growing as an individual in a personal level. In this instance, I am more patient with my own self when it comes to not being perfect and accepting that is ok to allow myself to enjoy the learning process in school and internship. I too have realized that over time I am feeling more confident with the clinical skills I am using with client, as I have seen how clients are responding to my work. An example of this, my client that was a runner and name called himself, since over two months ago, has …show more content…

I know now that it was not the most effective method to help the client’s and feel a bit guilty, however, I keep reminding myself that it’s ok, as this helps me not be too hard on myself. This is where I am practicing to be patient with myself. In addition, when working with clients, I keep pushing myself learn more about content versus process. By looking at content versus process, it has been extremely helpful when assessing and helping client’s I work with. It has also helped me when looking at what the underlying problem is. In this instance, a client acting out but when looking more in depth in client’s history, the misbehaviors were caused due to various traumatic events in the child’s life and now the child unable to trust others. I feel that I am still in the learning phase when using clinical skills with my client’s but I am seeing the results little by little. I have noticed that I am less stress and smiling more when I feel accomplished. There was an occasion this week where I felt countertransference with a client, but I felt I was able to contain myself and help the client but deep in my heart I too felt the pain the client was feeling. In this instance, the client’s father was in the hospital in comma and in the past I too had a similar situation with another family member. In

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