#psych internship

[discountscholar]

I'm starting my first psychology internship next week! Can you give any tips please😭

hi there, congratulations on bagging that internship!

you’ll need to tell me what sort of an internship this is because there’s a lot of variety in our field. i have only ever interned at a school for a counselling and advocacy position and at a couple of mental health startups for research positions. my experience in interning is limited to school psychology and psychological research so i will only be able to help you provide specific insights for these.

but generally-

1. please manage your time well. internships can take up a lot of space and effort (more than one estimates) so it’s important to keep a track of how much time you’re spending doing what tasks.

2. don’t be afraid to seek help- as young people in the field, there is a lot that we don't know. if we do not ask how certain things are done and clarify our doubts as they come, it's going to be difficult to learn from our experiences.

3. document what you learn- from my own (and those of my friends) experiences, i have found that it always helps to maintain a sort of journal/notebook/photo gallery of your experiences when you intern. it helps you keep a log of everything you learn and is nice to flip through when you reminisce about your days as a student.

4. self care- it is easy to get caught in the whirlpool of working hard and having a full schedule. self-care often takes a backseat in such circumstances. but it is important to remember that if we don't take care of ourselves and actively contribute to our health and well-being- we won't be able to do anything that we are looking forward to. so, please look after yourself and prioritize your own wellbeing.

[vampiricsheep]

so since I may be free this summer after all, would anyone be interested in an RP event that's a potluck? I've been wanting to do it for ages but there's never any interest compared to other themes

for a discord rp, I would make a separate server explicitly for this purpose so you don't have to be in any guilds or anything! I would also delete the server (or at least channel, if people would like an event-planning server long-term) after a week - enough time for people to read over their stuff but not preserved forever and ever.

[oepionie]

I LIVE!!!

[humanitys-strongest-bamf]

why am i so sensitive to meds i'm-

[iknowwhereyousleepatnight]

sobbing crying not majoring in bugs means i cant go for any of the fun bug internships *explodes*

[miodiodavinci]

(lays down in a field of soft cotton) i accept my fate. but begrudgingly.

[sweet-as-kiwis]

Oh I am so fucked next semester

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

if i see one more kid's face on the internet posted by their caregiver for views im going to start hunting people for sport

[florenceisfalling]

ive seen some ppl mention they wanna make an irisona but dont feel like they have any iris-worthy qualifications and its so funny to me like bestie i am an Art Teacher In Training. if iris had ANYTHING i would actually be qualified for, i GUARANTEE it'd be incredibly unethical

[ambivalent-academic]

7-7-22 || Yesterday I got a cinnamon roll and some coffee from a coffee shop near my work, and it was so good.

I also got my AP scores a couple days a go, and I'm very happy with them! 5's in AP psych and AP Lang, and a 4 in APUSH.

[robinsnest2111]

I feel like I didn't make proper use of today. but I got several loads of laundry done and put fresh bedsheets and such on my bed. and that will have to be enough.

[sucrate]

girlies who r leaving 4ever UNITE ! ! !

[tetedump]

omg congrats on getting into a grad school program! I am trying to go down a similar career path and i was wondering if you could talk a little about the experience you got during undergrad that helped you get into this program? Thank you:))

thank you!! <3

getting experiences were fairly tricky for me bc of covid, so it shouldn't be as hard for you, hopefully!! i didn't actively seek out research experience, i was primarily looking for clinical experience, but having the research experience was super helpful and i ended up really enjoying it (although i definitely don't want to continue down that road professionally).

for clinical experiences, i reached out to my clinical psych professor (honestly hated her, but she put me in touch with this organization where she was being trained which was the most phenomenal experience, so we're very grateful to her for that) and asked what organizations she thought might have summer internships for undergrad students. if you're looking in NYC, i can give you a few suggestions on places where you could start looking! <3 i ended up interning at this private practice for 2 years because they let me keep coming back—i got to learn things on the admin side, got my first experiences interacting with clients and parents in a clinical sense, and got practice talking with supervisors both getting/receiving feedback and asking questions.

for research experience, i emailed literally every single psychology professor at my school and asked if they had any research they needed assistance with (and, i said 'if not, would you be able to recommend another faculty member that I could reach out to? i'm very interested in gaining research experience!'). thankfully, the one who had an opening had work that i was happy to do! and i've stayed on that on and off for 2 years as well, because it's been easy, interesting, and super cool to be able to literally be writing the final research article now to be submitted to journals, after having done the clinical interviews 2 summers ago at the very beginning of the project:)

please let me know if you have any questions/if i should elaborate about any of these experiences!

i do not think you need either or both of these experiences to pursue psychology. I do think a lot of places like to see that you have experience. it's absolute shit that a lot of these experiences are unpaid. there are definitely scholarships and grants you can apply for, but that doesn't minimize the unpaidness of the work you're doing. if i can help at all, please let me know!!! <3 excited for you to explore this:)

[wttcsms]

PSYCH MAJOR DEFINITELY

that’s too funny, one of my closest friends is a psychology major + my sister’s bf is in med school & in the current process of becoming a psychiatrist. maybe they rubbed off on me 🤭

[falconcoast]

my schedule changed again literally five minutes before class started. WHAT THE FUCK !!!

[blossom-hwa]

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