Week One Fun

Hello Everyone,

I finished my first week at A New Beginning! I can already tell I’m going to have a great time in my internship. 

On the first day, I got to meet all the staff at ANB. All the ANB team members were incredibly kind and welcoming, and they even allowed me to sit in on part of their staff meeting during lunch. I spent most of the day scoring client self-assessments. The assessments were standard evaluations that many psychologists use to determine where a client falls on the spectrum of anxiety, depression, body image concern, binge eating behaviors, etc. I was not sure how to score the assessments at first, but the scoring key to go with the assessments shows how to reach a total score based on the response to each question. For example, if the question said, “I feel calm…” one would possibly circle the option that says “a little of the time,” and that would add four points to the total score on an anxiety test. The total score tells what degree of anxiety one has, based on the range it falls into. This task took me a significant amount of time because I double or triple-checked all the numbers to make sure I scored everything correctly.

The next day, I spent most of my time searching different social media sites for material pertaining to anorexia. I was shocked by how many blogs I found promoted anorexia, commonly termed “pro-ana” sites. I spent hours looking through various webpages, and I barely even scratched the surface in my research. There is so much out there!

On my third day, I scored more self-evaluation sheets and continued my research. Also, the office manager, Jessica, showed me how to answer the calls and direct them to the appropriate voicemails of the different providers.

I look forward to the weeks ahead and working with the wonderful ANB team!

-Carly