This week, the paper will reflect on personal growth and challenges experienced in the clinical work. It will also reflect on personal struggles in the process of building relationship with a client and potential multicultural biases.
This week has been a productive week as two of my clients are preparing themselves to look for a job. As a graduate clinician noticing that the treatment unfolds into healthy changes in clients lives is significantly fulfilling. I was appreciative of the knowledge, skills, and awareness provided by the course at school. In addition, I felt grateful for choosing a profession that touches lives of some people in a unique way, which brings out the best characteristics of a person. It appears that most of my clients resonate with therapeutic treatment and benefits from the Cognitive Behavioral
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I am beginning to feel confident, gaining self-control, and autonomy in managing outpatient clinical responsibilities. As an intern, it has been a learning internship experience where I feel fortunate to be supported in my clinical ethics and values. However, the process of growth brings new experiences and new discoveries. Although I feel liberated from my fears of gaining self-control in the therapeutic setting, sometimes some new clients bring new challenges.
This week I was assigned to a new client and I was thrilled to start our relationship together. Our phone conversations appear to be positive, however, during the therapy day all rooms were pre-booked, and there was some distraction in the middle of the therapy related to assigning the rooms. Though room assignment was not an issue, I learned that in building the initial therapeutic alliance consistency is crucial during the forty-five minutes. During building the therapeutic alliance, client appeared to resonate with different clinician