Guided Practicum

Lydia Kirkland
Ronald McDonald House Internship

E-Portfolio

Getting Started

Feelings and concerns

Primary learning interest and needs
Strengths and weaknesses
Important issues
Most excited and challenging

Getting Acquainted
Agency
Co-Workers
My Role
Agency Context

Developing Ethical Competence

My agency
No ethical issues

Agency previously
Boss and staf

Learning to Learn from

Experience

Recycling project

What I learned

Future

Using Supervision
Want and need in my supervision
My responsibilities
Challenges
Growing in my skills
Anticipation of need

Communicating in Your
Internship
Working with individuals

Working with a group

Least experience
Encompassing all four levels
Strengths and weaknesses
Areas of intervention most interesting

Developing Cultural
Competence
Encountering cultural diferences
Gained insight
Greatest cultural challenges
Cultural level of skill
Goals

Writing and Reporting Within

Your Field Agency

Taking Care of Yourself

Source of Stress
Handling Stress
Ways of taking Care of myself

Ending Your Internship

Appreciation
Regrets
Leaving the Internship
Personal and Professional Growth

Planning Your Career

Long-term Goals
Short-term Goals
Steps for personal and professional growth