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Essay On Human Service Experience

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I am currently in the process of moving from the anticipation stage and toward the exploration stage of my internship. During this time, I am focused on developing my relationship with my placement site and growing as an individual within the human service profession. After a few weeks with the Mercy Centre, I am beginning to build a routine with community based day supports program. This routine does changes daily to a certain degree since the human service field is based on people and people are ever changing. In response to these changes, I work at adjust, adapt to the environment and the clients. I am able to remain emotionally and rationally engaged with the Mercy Centre, through the challenges that continue to present itself during this …show more content…

At this point, I believe that the challenges I have faced, am facing and will face are the right appropriate range. The initial challenge with my internship placement was finding an actual site, which then formed into the challenge of finding my role within the Mercy Centre. Once I began working, I had to create a relationship with the clients and the staff. In an effort to create this relationship, I had to establish the fact that I was not a client but also not a staff member. This meant that I was there to assist them, work with them to reach their goals and be part of their work organization. It also meant that I am not a staff member, so I cannot be alone with the clients. This became an issue, as I was not able to join the groups who worked in the community. Through working with Peg, the director of the Mercy Centre and Jodie, the head of community based day supports program, we have come to a resolution for this issue. I am able to attend this work sites, as long as I drive to the location in my own car and I do not travel with the clients. There are been other challenges along the way, but have had a corresponding solution. This includes dealing with emotional outbursts, which typically consists of clients not getting their way and negatively reacting to

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