Lol, what a silly term, "coveting prayer." Anyway, I do ask you to pray for me as I have a big meeting Monday with my supervisor. Although she isn't aware of it yet, I am going to challenge the fact that the learning contract for my placement says 720 hours for next academic year. In fact, I refuse to sign on for that many hours. I am only required to do 300 hours to pass, and 400 average per year over three years in order to graduate. I already did nearly 800 hours for this placement last year, and I absolutely refuse to drive myself to insanity again. I also know better than to sign agreements that I cannot fulfill. With my dissertation research going on, and a full load of huge ass classes, including one of the hardest theology courses, I don't see myself having time to do that many hours even if I WANTED to.
So, worst cast scenario, they tell me to hit the road, months after all the other practicum spots are filled, leaving me with a black mark from an agency that takes only students from our school. Hm, that's probably not a very good thing. This could be big time stuff, people. I TA for the director of the clinic, which makes this much much messier. Oh my.
Sigh, damn my therapist for teaching me to say no.
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As someone who has been in the supervisory capacity for such arrangements, my advice is simply to be genuine, be flexible, and be honest. Typically, these kinds of facilities either get your services for free (or pay you very little compared to a licensed therapist), so any work they can get out of you is proverbial gravy for them. So they might be disappointed, but I think it unlikely they will get too upset. Oh, and you might think about bringing up the issue in the context of how you can best be of service to them. Maybe something like "with my caseload, dissertation, and other projects, I'm worried I'd just burn myself out if I try to work that many hours here as well. My sense is that I could better serve the clients (and learn more from your program) if my hours were closer to...." Just some thoughts. Prayers and best wishes to you.
Thanks for you advice Steve. That is the route I'm taking. Normally, this would be no big deal, but I have a 3 year very involved relationship with this agency and the supervisor is brand new out of Ph.D. and the last year was bumpy to say the least.
It's difficult to be in her position as well as mine. I know the agency better, and have been in positions that give me more knowledge of how things work, while she had the administrative authority, which she seems very wary of picking up. (At least when she may have to take responsibility for the negative aspects of being in charge).
We'll see. Meeting is at 1pm.
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