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I guess this could technically fit in the other Psychology forum [BA, BS, BSW, MA, MSW], but I thought I'd put it her as this issue applies to doctoral level psych as well, and this forum gets more traffic. Mods, feel free to move this if you see fit.
In one of my classes today (undergrad. psych/BSW student), we did our first intake/assesment interview practice on a classmate pretending to be a client, and it was hard... I don't think I did absolutely horribly or anything, but I definitely look back on some errors I made, like maybe being too pushy with trying to differentiate substance abuse v. "social drinking" and just generally appearing relaxed, etc. I wasn't expecting to be perfect by any means, but does interviewing/assesment get easier as you practice more (getting more comfortable in your own skin as the interviewer, knowing more of the "right" things to say, etc.) or not?
Thoughts? Expereiences? Encouragement? Discouragement?
In one of my classes today (undergrad. psych/BSW student), we did our first intake/assesment interview practice on a classmate pretending to be a client, and it was hard... I don't think I did absolutely horribly or anything, but I definitely look back on some errors I made, like maybe being too pushy with trying to differentiate substance abuse v. "social drinking" and just generally appearing relaxed, etc. I wasn't expecting to be perfect by any means, but does interviewing/assesment get easier as you practice more (getting more comfortable in your own skin as the interviewer, knowing more of the "right" things to say, etc.) or not?
Thoughts? Expereiences? Encouragement? Discouragement?
