Break Chronicles - Thinking Deeply About Being an Internship Director
Well, it's official. I offered yet another applicant a position as intern at my facility and was denied yet again. I am frustrated by this process, by the lack of interns, by the effort that I put in to be rejected again and again. (I also have a headache and travel-related body aches, so keep in mind that my thoughts on this topic are a bit skewed toward the negative, at the moment.) I am to the point where I think it is time to close my internship program rather than go through this time and time again. Closing my internship is something that I have thought about one other time in my tenure as ID, and that was when I was stuck in a room that was not appropriate at all for music therapy and was in the midst of a depressive period. Once I moved into my big room that I have now, things got better with my emotions and my attitude towards being a mentor again. I was asked to take my internship off of inactive status by the Director of Professional Practices, so I did. Since that point