Internship 1 Reflection

My first internship was an eye-opening experience to the passion I have for helping support kids with social-emotional learning.

• ASCA Standards: B.3.f. Explore and examine implicit biases and the impact on practice and interaction with students; apply learning to program practice and development. 

• CACREP Standards: 2.F.1.b, 2.F.1.j 

The relationship between a counselor and client is important to build for a number of reasons. One of these reasons being that the stronger a rapport is between a counselor and client, the more trust the client will have to tell the counselor things honestly, with more detail. One of the ways a counselor can build this rapport with clients is by using skills that are taught to train the counselor to make the client feel heard. Some of these skills consist of probing, summarizing, and using empathy (Egan & Reese, 2018). 

• ASCA Standard: B-SS 6. Collaborate with families, teachers, administrators, other school staff and education stakeholders for student achievement and success.

• ASCA Ethical Standards for School Counselors: B.3. Responsibilities to Self

• CACREP Standard: G. 3. 8. Skills to critically examine the connections between social, familial, emotional, and behavior problems and academic achievement