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I was hoping for a letter of rec for internship, so I'm afraid my age could taint it.Is this person going to have some bearing on your future career outside this experience? Besides making these comments, has she actually undermined you in supervision or with a client because of your age?
I'd probably make a mental note and move on without much concern. Supervisors are not immune to a lack of professionalism. It's unfortunate and I am sorry you are made to feel that way, but it sounds like she may be similarly crass with other students.
That's probably not a person you want a letter from.I was hoping for a letter of rec for internship, so I'm afraid my age could taint it.
We start asking for letters in the summer and apply in the fall.How long until you apply for internship?
We start asking for letters in the summer and apply in the fall.
Yeah, if OP doesn't have that many practicum supervisors by now, I'd wonders about the quality and diversity of their clinical training and whether they might be rushing through their grad program like they did their earlier education.As in, next fall? If you're that close to internship, I would assume you've had 4+ supervisors between different sites/clinics by that time. How many practica do you do at your program before internship?
Yeah, if OP doesn't have that many practicum supervisors by now, I'd wonders about the quality and diversity of their clinical training and whether they might be rushing through their grad program like they did their earlier education.
I don't think we know enough about the OP to make assumptions about how he/she approached their training. This makes us no better than the supervisor.
According to OP, two out of three recommendations should be from practicum supervisors and their only option besides the supervisor from the OP is from a supervisor next year. This implies that they have only had two supervisors so far, including the one in the OP, and will only have a third to choose from when they are applying for internship in a year. This also sounds like they will only have two practicum sites by this summer, unless they have the same supervisor at multiple sites. I don't know about everyone else, but two sites and two supervisors doesn't sound like enough in terms of breadth, depth, and diversity of training. That's about half, give or take, what people at my program usually have by the time they apply for internship and we have a 100% match rate.They told us two out of the three letters need to be from practicum supervisors, and yeah I could try to get one from my supervisor for next year, but I will have known them for a month or two...
Except that I pointed out a subsequent post by the OP where they explicitly said that their overall concern was about letters of recommendation for internship and worrying that they would not have a suitable replacement if they didn't use a recommendation from the supervisor in their OP.It's nice you are concerned. No indication of that from the OP on this issue- the question was about supervisor conflict, not internship readiness.
Anyways, seems like the original post is gone. Probably in their best interest.
I was hoping for a letter of rec for internship, so I'm afraid my age could taint it.
They told us two out of the three letters need to be from practicum supervisors, and yeah I could try to get one from my supervisor for next year, but I will have known them for a month or two...
Exactly. The issues with their current supervisor seems relatively minor compared to have so few pracs. I'm curious how many F2F hours they have and what populations they have worked withWell, if they only have 2 prac sites by the time internship apps roll around, only having 2 pracs on their CV is a much bigger problem than a tepid LOR.
I know. I was saying I don't have a choice but to ask THIS supervisor for a letter.Well, options are somewhat limited by program structure, but you still have two practica and presumably an advisor to write LORs.
I know. I was saying I don't have a choice but to ask THIS supervisor for a letter.