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>> So I am in my 5th year of grad school.

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And sort of preparing for a
career in clinical psychology.

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But the nice thing about graduate
school is that it's not just classes.

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It's also seeing clients and doing research.

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So you're actually getting the
real experiences of the career.

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So every year at graduate school,
you do what's called a practicum

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and I just did outpatient therapy
with lots of different clients.

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I am especially interested in
kids who have trauma histories.

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So I saw a lot of kids who had been abused
or neglected and luckily most of them were

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in like new homes and really
good healthy fosters families.

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And just kind of helping
them, sort of transition.

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Also saw kids who had issues like depression
or ADHD, kind of a really wide variety.

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Which was a really good training experience.

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Typically a session is about 50 minutes.

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Some families, I kind of go over if I was going
to spend some time with the child individually

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and then also see the family as a unit.

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In clinical psychology graduate program,

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you learn a lot of very structured
sort of approaches to therapy.

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And so [inaudible] trauma focus
cognitive behavioral therapy.

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And it starts by providing the
kids with some coping skills.

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And then also sort of helping them to address
their, what the appearance was for them sort

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of head on and kind of deal with it
in a healthy way and understand it.

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It wasn't their fault.

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You know, and kind of deal with any sort
of issues they're having related to that.

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So it's about a third for each.

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So a third of your time is spent doing research.

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A third of your time is spent
doing clinical work.

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And a third of it is in classes.

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So the thing I really like about the program is
that it is so varied in what you do day to day.

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See some days I can come in and, you
know, sweat pants, and I'm just working,

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you know going to class and working
on research stuff at my desk.

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Other days, I'm seeing clients
and that's really interesting.

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And some days, you have kind
of a little bit of both.

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It's really nice because if
you get sick of one thing,

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you have something else to look forward to.