SUMMER INTERNSHIP REPORT

SUBMITTED BY: Parneet Kaur (M.A final) InternTek Chand Sidana Memorial Psychiatric Hospital & De- addiction centre

I Parneet Kaur student of International College of Girls M.A (psychology). The IIS university Jaipur permitted to do my internship in Psychiatry department for 45 days as this internship was part of my curriculum . I joined Tek Chand Sidana Memorial Psychiatric Hospital & De-addiction centre , Sriganganagar (raj) under the supervision of Dr. Neena Chadha (clinical psychologist).

INTRODUCTIONAn internship is a trained and supervised experience in a professional setting in which the student is learning and gaining essential experience and expertise. Internship is meant for introducing candidates either full-time or part-time to a real world experience related to their career goals and interests. It may, but does not have to be related connected to ones academic major or minor. Internship is relatively short term in nature with the primary focus on getting some on the job training and taking whats learning in the classroom and applying it to the real world. Interns generally have a supervisor who assigns specific tasks and evaluates their overall work. For internship for credit, usually a faculty sponsor will work along with the site supervisor to ensure that the necessary learning is taking place. Interns not gain practical work experience in a field that students intend to pursue but also build experience in local, national and international platforms. Internship helps individual to combine theory with practical work experience. Internship helps develop professional work habits; provides an understanding of professional cultures, gives an opportunity to analyze workplace setting, and offers platforms to compare difference in work styles.

OBJECTIVES OF INTERNSHIPThe main objective of the internship course is to facilitate reflection on experiences obtained in the internship and to enhance understanding of academic material by application in the internship setting. Internships will provide students the opportunity to test their interest in a particular career before permanent commitments are made. Apart from it is more important because1. Internship will help the trainees to develop skills and techniques directly applicable to their careers. 2. Internship will provide students the opportunity to develop attitudes conducive to effective interpersonal relationship.

WORK EXPERIENCEDuring my internship I have gone through the experience of taking case history, mental status examinations , interview technique, counseling sessions.Initially I was asked to observe in- patients and learned how to take case history under the supervision of Dr. Neena Chadha.Then I started taking case histories and detailed evalutions of in door and out door pateints,Then I attended counseling sessions under the guidance of clinical psychologist.I learned interview techniques and conducted on pateints as well.At the end I also attended psychotheraphy sessions.

In case history I took detailed describtion of pateints like Name-Duration-Chief complaints-Treatment history-Drug abuse-Family history-After every case history of pateints I had to do mental status examination of pateints . In mental status examination first patient was analysed and observed completely while taking case history than I had to record the pateints appearance ,attitude, mood and affect, speech wheather it was relevant or not, then the thought processes of pateints like wheather it follows obsessive compulsive thoughts .

During my internship pateints commonly had obsessive compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, substance abuse disorder,Anxiety, head ache, epilepsy, hysteria, mental retardation, ADHD etc.Counseling sessions were conducted on clients who had problem like parent child relationship , problem in marriage life , adjustment problems etc.

I found this internship very helpful in understanding of academic material by application in the internship setting. Internships provide me the opportunity to test my interest in this field of clinical psychology before permanent commitments are made.