Update on my Individual Sessions

For my internship I took on an individual session on Tuesday's, a small group on Thursday's and an individual co-treatment in the pool. All of these were meant to go for only as long as I'm an internet this facility.

For my small group session on Thursday's I saw two siblings at the end of the day. Their schedule was quite filled out so there was no other time to see them except right after they were done with their preschool class before they go home. Unfortunately they were often exhausted by the time they made it to me so they would cry or be defiant or just unresponsive to the session. There was also inconsistency in attendance because they were frequently out sick, so there was no regularity in the schedule that could be set while I saw them. Due to this the family believed that the extra music session was not going to work for their family and they choose to end them.

The last session I had with them was quite rough and I had mentioned to my supervisor that I wished I could see them at a different time because I thought they were just so exhausted. If it continued the way it had I probably would have brought up to the family terminating sessions because I wasn't sure they were getting as much as they could have out of the sessions, but they beat me too it.

I wish I had been the one to initiate termination, only because I feel like I kind of failed to be as aware of the families needs as I could have. I almost felt like it was a choice to terminate services because the family when they were present seemed to be willing to work through it because individual music sessions are hard to come by. But maybe they were also just waiting to see if it would get better after the initial newness.

For my Individual session on Tuesday so far there has been a large inconsistency in attendance. Partially because they have been sick. Once because they just didn't show and a couple times because there have been conferences on therapy days so therapy gets cancelled. I have only been able to see the client twice so there hasn't been a lot of rapport building in individual sessions. I have seen them in class and they dont really mention a lot about missing sessions or wanting to make them up. In the two sessions we have had I've been figuring out how best to treat the client but I haven't had much opportunity to try out new methods to become more efficient in the session. With holidays coming up there really aren't very many sessions left before its time to evaluate and terminate sessions before my internship is complete. I know this is nothing out of the ordinary, my supervisor had kids missing every week from individual sessions. That makes individual therapy here hard.

On another note my Pool therapy is going swimmingly. I've been the most absent from it as opposed to my client. The client has grown a bit on their objectives and has a great time in session for a majority of session, which makes sense because who isn't happy when swimming in the pool.

I find I enjoy the group sessions more most of the time. You aren't planning for one specific student and you have more people to interact with. There just seems like there is less pressure on the MT to make progress happen in a way. I wish I was getting a more positive experience in my Individuals because I feel like they could end up making up a majority of my work load when I am a professional. But it depends where I end up.

to be continued at a later date...