BSHS/415 FIELD EXPERIENCE I
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BSHS 415 Week 1 Weekly Journal Entry
Complete the Week One journal entry in your Field Experience Journal.
Cite your sources consistent with APA guidelines as needed.
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Field Experience Journal
Instructions
The Field Experience Journal includes all journal questions for the entire course.
Answer the journal questions assigned each week.
Type your answers in the spaces provided. Part 1 and Part 2 of the journal entries must total
350 to 700 words in length each week.
Submit the entire journal each week. At the end of the course, you should have a
comprehensive journal that includes all of your weekly entries.
BSHS 415 Week 2 Weekly Journal Entry
Complete the Week Two journal entry in your Field Experience Journal located on the
student website.
Cite your sources consistent with APA guidelines as needed.
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BSHS 415 Week 3 Weekly Journal Entry
Complete the Week Three journal entry in your Field Experience
Journal located on the student website.
Cite your sources consistent with APA guidelines as needed.
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BSHS 415 Week 4 Weekly Journal Entry
Complete the Week Four journal entry in your Field Experience Journal located on the
student website.
Cite your sources consistent with APA guidelines as needed.
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BSHS 415 Week 5 Weekly Journal Entry
Complete the Week Five journal entry in your Field Experience Journal located on the
student website.
Cite your sources consistent with APA guidelines as needed.
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BSHS 415 Week 6 Weekly Journal Entry
Complete the Week Six journal entry in your Field Experience Journal located on the
student website.
Cite your sources consistent with APA guidelines as needed.
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BSHS 415 Week 6 Mental Health Facilitation Summary
Option 1
Resources: Mental Health Facilitation modules "Working with Refugees and Victims of
War" and "Facilitating in Crises, Disasters, Traumas, & Violence"
Imagine you are working with a person who has experienced war in their home country
and have lost friends and families due to war violence.
Write a 350- to 700-word summary outlining how to help individuals dealing with crises,
disasters, traumas, and violence.
Include the following in your summary:
The physical and psychological reactions the person may experience
Questions you will ask the person to better understand the situation and his or her
needs
How you will advise the person
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
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Option 2
Resources: Mental Health Facilitation modules "Working with Refugees and Victims of
War" and "Facilitating in Crises, Disasters, Traumas, & Violence"
Complete the following worksheets:
Initial Interview With a Victim of War Worksheet
Crises, Disaster, Trauma, and Violence Worksheet
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BSHS 415 Week 7 Weekly Journal Entry
Complete the Week Seven journal entry in your Field Experience
Journal located on the student website.
Cite your sources consistent with APA guidelines as needed.
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BSHS 415 Week 8 Weekly Journal Entry
Complete the Week Eight journal entry in your Field Experience Journal located on the
student website.
Cite your sources consistent with APA guidelines as needed.
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BSHS 415 Week 9 Weekly Journal Entry
Complete the Week Nine journal entry in your Field Experience Journal located on the
student website.
Cite your sources consistent with APA guidelines as needed.
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BSHS 415 Week 10 Weekly Journal Entry
Complete the Week Ten journal entry in your Field Experience Journal located on the
student website.
Cite your sources consistent with APA guidelines as needed.
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BSHS 415 Week 12 Weekly Journal Entry
Complete the Week Twelve journal entry in your Field Experience
Journal located on the student website.
Cite your sources consistent with APA guidelines as needed.
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BSHS 415 Week 13 Weekly Journal Entry
Complete the Week Thirteen journal entry in your Field Experience
Journal located on the student website.
Cite your sources consistent with APA guidelines as needed.
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BSHS 415 Week 14 Weekly Journal Entry
Complete the Week Fourteen journal entry in your Field Experience
Journal located on the student website.
Cite your sources consistent with APA guidelines as needed.
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Week One: Field Experience Standards
Part 1: Explain the learning objectives you have discussed with your supervisor. What steps will
you and your supervisor take to ensure you meet your learning objectives?
Part 2: Reflect on your personal experience during the first week at your agency. What positive
and negative experiences did you have?
Week Two: Knowing Your Agency
Part 1: What are some problems facing the clients in your agency? What is the mission
statement of your agency? How does it guide the organizational structure and goals? How does
your agency obtain its funding? How does your agency network within the community?
Part 2: Reflect on your personal experience during the second week at your agency. What
positive and negative experiences did you have?
Week Three: Human and Social Systems
Part 1: Describe your agency and its clientele. What are the demographics of the client base and
the surrounding community? How does the location and demographics of the agency affect
service delivery?
Part 2: Reflect on your personal experience during the third week at your agency. What positive
and negative experiences did you have?
Week Four: Ethics and Values for the Human Services Professional
Part 1: Read “Case Example 5” in Ch. 3 of The Human Services Internship. What were the
professional boundaries involved in this situation? How would you have handled them
differently?
Part 2: Reflect on your personal experience during the fourth week at your agency. What
positive and negative experiences did you have?
Week Five: Diversity and Special Populations
Part 1: From your readings, you learned that everyone has cultural biases. What are your
personal biases and stereotypes? What are your cultural biases? How are they an obstacle to
service delivery? What learning activities have you engaged in to help you explore your own
personal prejudices and stereotypes? How does this self-awareness help you become more
effective as a human services professional? If you have not engaged in a learning activity, what
activities would you like to explore? How can they help you become more effective as a human
services professional?
Part 2: Reflect on your personal experience during the fifth week at your agency. What positive
and negative experiences did you have?
Week Six: Delivery of Human Services
Part 1: Discuss, with your supervisor, your role in a crisis if one occurs at your agency or in the
community during your field experience. What skills should you develop to ensure you are
prepared to respond to a crisis?
Part 2: Reflect on your personal experience during the sixth week at your agency. What positive
and negative experiences did you have?
Week Seven: Interpersonal Communication
Part 1: Discuss your communication style with your supervisor. What is the difference
between assertive communication and aggressive communication styles? Which style would
be most effective as a human service professional and why? What communication skills have
you had the opportunity to practice while working at your agency? What areas of
communication are you planning to further develop during this field experience?
Part 2: Reflect on your personal experience during the seventh week at your agency. What
positive and negative experiences did you have?
Week Eight: Interviewing Skills
Part 1: Observe coworkers at your agency interviewing and communicating with clients in
various situations. How has this influenced your approach to interviewing and communicating
with clients? What do you feel you must change in the way you communicate to be more
consistent with how your agency communicates with its clients?
Part 2: Reflect on your personal experience during the eighth week at your agency. What
positive and negative experiences did you have?
Week Nine: Client Assessment Part 1: Process
Part 1: Identify a goal that you want to accomplish in the next 5 years. Use the assessment
process to create a treatment plan for yourself and share it with your supervisor. What
feedback did your supervisor provide? How did this experience influence how you will
develop future treatment plans for your clients?
Part 2: Reflect on your personal experience during the ninth week at your agency. What positive
and negative experiences did you have?
Week Ten: Client Assessment Part 2 – Planning
Part 1: Review the treatment plan you created for yourself in Week Nine. Have you
incorporated your strengths and challenges? Revise your goals as needed to ensure that
they are clear, attainable, and measurable.
Part 2: Reflect on your personal experience during the tenth week at your agency. What positive
and negative experiences did you have?
Week Eleven: Client Assessment Part 3 – Implementation
Part 1: Reflect on the treatment plan you created for yourself in Week Nine. Identify services
you could use to meet your goals. What is your responsibility in achieving your goal? How is
this similar to your clients’ responsibility to successfully completing their treatment goals?
Discuss, with your supervisor, how your agency benefits from positive, client-treatment-plan
outcomes. How do successful client outcomes influence your agency’s funding or other
community resources?
Part 2: Reflect on your personal experience during the eleventh week at your agency. What
positive and negative experiences did you have?
Week Twelve: Documentation
Part 1: Discuss the methods and purpose of maintaining records at your agency with your
supervisor. How do these methods ensure ethical standards and protect client
confidentiality? What auditing systems are in place for ensuring compliance?
Part 2: Reflect on your personal experience during the twelfth week at your agency. What
positive and negative experiences did you have?
Week Thirteen: Human Services Information Management
Part 1: Describe how your agency uses technology internally and externally? Is technology
used to maintain records? Does it facilitate communication within the agency? Is technology
used to network with the surrounding community providers? Is it used as a marketing tool to
reach clients or provide resources?
Part 2: Reflect on your personal experience during the thirteenth week at your agency. What
positive and negative experiences did you have?
Week Fourteen: Self-Development
Part 1: What positive and negative emotions have you experienced during your field
experience? Why is self-awareness important in your self-development? What strategies for
self-development would you incorporate to enhance your ability to be an effective human
services professional?
Part 2: Reflect on your personal experience during the fourteenth week at your agency. What
positive and negative experiences did you have?
Week Fifteen: Completing Your Internship
Part 1: Review the learning objectives you created in Week One with your supervisor. How
have you accomplished these objectives? Were there obstacles to achieving your learning
objectives?
Part 2: Reflect on your personal experience during the field experience at your agency. Has the
population that you want to work with changed as a result of the field experience? What are your
plans for your next field experience?