I am a student studying school psychology. I have spent over 500 hours volunteering my time in the field without pay to learn the varying responsibilities of a school psychologist. I am currently in a paid internship with 700 more hours (the remainder of the school year) to complete until graduation!
After reading various blogs by others in the field, I have decided to join in the fun and begin my own blog starting with my experiences in my internship. I have tried to write blogs before including boring day to day life blogs (who cares?!), photo blogs (eh kind of cool), and I even attempted a 365 photo blog without success. I find that sometimes I need to step on to my soap box and shout to the rooftops about kids I encounter (keeping their privacy of course) or just vent about the stresses of being a school psychologist... especially being an intern.
Sometimes I come home and tell my husband a story about something I encountered that day only to hear a response like, "oh try this... " or "cool". I am glad that he has taken the time to pretend to listen to me and sometimes he actually does but I know he gets tired of hearing things that he may not understand and I don't like to get advice from him because I usually find myself telling him how his plan wouldn't possibly work in a school setting. Another major dilemma that I am about to enter in to is finding a job... dun dun dun. Out of everything I have experienced and been confronted with, the idea of a job search is the most scary!
I am hoping that this blog can be my outlet, and that I can also draw the attention of others in the field to comment and give expert advice. I hope if you are reading this, you will stay tuned and find my rants to be interesting, comical, obnoxious, and controversial... depending on my mood. I leave you with this amazing video that was shown to our internship class by our advisor.
The Speech Therapist Meets with the School Psychologist
by: nobodyreally
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