Counselor Interview
Ursuline Bankhead is a doctoral student in the field of Counseling Psychology. She is currently working in the Veterans Administration Hospital doing a rotation in the Geriatric division. She works forty hours a week and it is a paid internship. She prefers to work with clientele ranging from adolescents to geriatrics.
How does she like the profession so far? At her present internship, it's challenging but it's great and it's needed with the population getting older. I asked her how she works with patients who have dementia and she told me that she first tests them to look at their level of functioning There's a series of mental status tests that she gives them to see where their memory is and what they can and cannot do and also administers mental status tests. She does counseling with some of them and their families about changes that are happening for them and how they can adjust to them and she works with caregivers on how to adjust emotionally and......
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