What To Do Now

{ June 20, 2010 @ 3:09 am } · { Feelings...Nothing more than feelings }
{ Tags: advisor, AMTA, evaluation, grades, intern, internship, mean, music therapy, national orginization, rooster, snapped, unfair treatment, unstable }

So this has happened and I don’t think it’s fair, now what am I going to do about it. I talked to some people about what happened and I got a response to report her to the person over her head. A recreational therapist also told me that she told him it’s a goal of hers to make every intern cry before they leave. I feel like since things she’s said to before didn’t seem to affect me that she assumed getting all three of the music therapist in there with me would do the job. If I had known this was a goal of hers that ‘emergency meeting’ would have gone a lot different, I think it’s pretty safe to say I would’ve gone a little crazy. I would want her to think twice about ever doing that to another intern again in her life. She has small children how in the world would she feel if someone in a position of educator to her kids did exactly what she is doing.

She has got to be in her late 30′s and 40′s and the fact that she does this to college age interns really outrages me! Why would she even take interns if this is all she plans to do to them? I feel like she doesn’t deserve to train interns because she does this on purpose. If she wasn’t holding my grade or extending my internship longer or the fact that I could have to start part of my internship over some place else I would have definitely written my advisor and gone over my clinical training directors head to tell that person what had happened and let them make up their mind if they want someone working for them doing that. I’d never want to put someone’s job in jeopardy and I know she does a lot of advocating for those music therapy positions at the facility.

This internship site is on the  AMTA (American Music Therapy Association) National Internship Rooster and because of that I really wish that the national organization sent out evaluations to people who have done there internships at these sites. I just don’t want any intern to have to be treated like this or how interns in the past have been treated. An example I’ve heard is them all writing in thick red pen on someone’s final paper in front of her then balling it up and throwing it in the trash. That just doesn’t sound very…professional to me and, I don’t think the meeting they had with me was very professional either.  think she might hand me some sort of evaluation to me at the end, but I’m not slow, having me do an evaluation they can see before my grades are turned into my professor wouldn’t be the best move. I do know that after my grades are in I will be writing my professors letting them know some things that happened because I just think they should know and I wouldn’t want them to encourage anybody else to apply for this internship.

I still don’t know exactly what I should do or what I will do, all I know is I don’t want anybody else coming here to learn, moving away from their family and sometimes away from everything they’re familiar with like me to be treated like this. I don’t know if it’s their way to toughening up their interns but I for one don’t need any more toughening up. One day I believe they will get an intern that is not so emotionally stable and they will regret backing them into a corner or attacking them.

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