plan

For those who are wondering what my female owner is up to, since it is post-exam and she is not coming back to Singapore (BIG WAIL! Apparently she made the final firm decision not to come back this July because God told her not to go back… why???), I managed to get a little update from her.

Her main work now concerns her dodgy placement. Her supervisor had assigned extra work to the externs by insisting that they run another group (can you believe it?!). This time, it would be on memory enhancement. Two sessions. So the whole cycle starts again - advertisement, recruitment, background reading and research, session planning, consolidation of tipsheets.

She also needs to consolidate a placement folio consisting of the following:

• Update of hours (clinical, supervision, administrative)
• Reflection statement (time to be diplomatic… and euphemistic?)
• N=1 case study (like a journal article of a case. She is going to write on her group therapy. Nothing much to shout about, she says).
• Organisational project (she hasn’t started on this and her last day is next Friday! She needs to do some research to come up with a tipsheet differentiating between dementia and depression)
• Written samples – three psychological reports (my female owner is not looking forward to doing this, because she hasn’t really done real psychological interventions so she needs to cook up some story with the meagre ingredients she has)

Next, her research work. She has been claiming 10hours worth of work per week but seriously, hasn’t done much for her supervisor yet. She needs to start writing papers or crunching data for him, just that she hasn’t gotten a clue of what he wants. And he hasn’t kept in contact with her either, except to approve her hours! How strange is this culture?

Finally, she has to work on her personal goals for winter 2009. This includes play and non-play stuff.

If all things go well, her second placement will start in mid July. This gives her two weeks of REAL break. So there, her holiday plans mapped out.