This week's reading material focusing on concluding your internship program and evaluating the work that you've accomplished. After reading this week's material and viewing the video below, discuss with your peers the following:

• In your opinion, is it better to strive for excellence or perfection in you work
• How can your intern supervisor help you gain a balance

between the two?

• Professional self-evaluation - Spend some time evaluating
• Where you are now in the continuum of excellence to perfectionism. re do you fall? Does that need to change?
• What are some things you can do to make those changes?

https://youtu.be/buoS5wH_kV0

below is the lecture note,

CHAPTER TWELVE

The Culmination Stage: Celebrating the Achievements,

Embracing the Experience

CHAPTER OUTLINE

Introduction

1. The end of an internship is a time for pride in accomplishments and reflection on experiences.
2. Engaged interns find appropriate ways to express their feelings, finish projects, say goodbye, and make plans for the future.

Making Sense of Endings

1. A Myriad of Feelings
2. Interns in the Culmination Stage experience many emotions: satisfaction, relief, anticipation of freedom, distress, anger, loss, confusion, and so forth.
3. Interns may experience mixed emotions simultaneously or various emotions sequentially.

1. Changes and More Changes
2. Some interns may not be ready to give up the work.
3. Relationships are ending or being redefined.
4. Some interns are graduating and looking for work and new places to live.

1. Making Endings Work
2. Interns' response patterns, cultural norms, and family patterns color the way they feel about ending the internship.
3. Interns can be affected by their various life experiences with goodbyes.

The Tasks at Hand

1. The overall goal of the Culmination Stage is closure.
2. The three critical tasks involve
3. ending work-related tasks and issues,
4. redefining relationships, and
5. planning for the future.

1. Remaining Engaged
2. To maintain engagement, interns should
3. be as active as possible,
4. take responsibility for their learning,
5. face their feelings, and
6. persist.
7. Rituals may help end an internship by
8. providing a sense of completion,
9. adding a sense of "specialness" to the ending,
10. easing the transition by connecting past and future, and
11. creating a formal opportunity to express emotions.

1. Handling the Slips and Slides ... at Journey's End
2. Some interns begin to experience an unpleasant shift in feelings about an internship at the end. Others may "sabotage" the experience.
3. Disillusionment at the Culmination Stage is a crisis of closure.
4. To avoid the crisis or to climb out of it, interns must maintain an engaged approach.

Closure with Supervisors

1. The Final Evaluation
2. A final evaluation conference with the site supervisor is very important. It provides needed information and acts as a closing ritual.

1. The Final Conference
2. This evaluation may determine if an intern graduates or completes an academic major, minor, or certificate program.
3. Before the conference, interns should reflect on their experiences.
4. Reread journal entries and previous evaluations.
5. Divide reflection into two areas: work performance and learning.
6. Focus on areas of deep learningthose that caused personal change.
7. Take time to manage emotions, which will enhance honest and open participation in the evaluation process.
8. The goal is to leave the evaluation conference with pride, regardless of the actual ratings.
9. The process should be productive and constructive.
10. Interns may need to ask supervisors to discuss areas for growth.
11. If any comments are not grounded in facts, they should be discussed with the campus/program supervisor.

1. Feedback to the Supervisor
2. Interns should tell supervisors what went well and what areas may need improvement.
3. This information will benefit future interns.
4. Unless feedback is requested, interns should carefully consider the appropriateness of critical comments.

1. Ending the Supervisory Relationships
2. This is the informal part of the closure process.
3. If possible, interns should give voice to their feelings.
4. Interns may ask for recommendations during the Culmination Stage, while things are still fresh in the supervisor's mind.
5. Ask if the supervisor is comfortable writing a supportive letter.
6. Make your future goals clear so the letter can reflect them.
7. Give plenty of notice and provide all needed materials.

1. For the Helping and Service Professions: Saying Goodbye to Clients
2. Termination is the term that refers to the ending of a therapeutic relationship. If the calendar dictates the ending, it is a forced termination.
3. Interns vary greatly in their closure experiences partly due to the variations in internship sites and in the client populations served.
4. Four important issues when bringing closure with clients are:
5. Deciding when and how to tell them
6. Addressing the unfinished business
7. Dealing with feelings, both yours and theirs
8. Interns should model positive and empowering ways of dealing with feelings.
9. Some clients may be vulnerable to feelings of abandonment.
10. Some will react with resistance.
11. Interns must be careful to avoid the common pitfalls: personalizing reactions, confusing needs and issues, mixing feelings and decisions, seeking affirmation from clients, and promising to return.
12. Planning for future needs
13. Transferring clients involves transitioning them to another helper.
14. Interns should check with the placement site about policies regarding any future contact (friendships, social media, etc.) with clients.

Closure with the Internship Site

1. Finishing the Work
2. Interns must complete what work they canfinish components of a larger project, summarize their work or research findings, make recommendations for moving forward, and so on.

1. Rituals and Remembrances
2. Interns need to be proactive to get the sense of closure they want.
3. Ask about typical rituals or about scheduling time with coworkers to say goodbye.

1. Your Future at the Site
2. Interns who are offered part-time, full-time, or relief work at the site should be sure that is what they want to do.
3. Making promises on which they cannot deliver will give the intern, campus, and program a bad image.

The Seminar Class

1. Many interns find that they will miss the seminar class as it is a source of support and guidance in their lives.
2. Interns should discuss what type of ending they hope to have in the seminar class.

Don't Forget Yourself: Looking Around & Moving On

1. Have You Been "Successful"?
2. Interns should take the feedback from their final evaluations seriously, but they are the ones who ultimately evaluate the success of the internship.
3. Interns should consider the three components of a High Quality Internship (HQI):
4. Deep and lasting learning
5. Deep learning generates change, so interns should think about how they have changed.
6. Learning in multiple dimensions and domains
7. Interns should consider the planned changes via the Learning Contract and the unplanned changes.
8. Self-awareness is a process, not an accomplishment.
9. Interns should focus on their personal, professional, and civic development.
10. Have You Changed as a Learner?
11. Interns should consider their opportunities for engagementlooking for chances to learn, rising to challenges, asking critical questions, and so on.
12. Interns also should reflect on how they become an integrative learnerblending useful pieces from various perspectives into one that is uniquely personal. This may include integrating the cognitive and affective realms of learning.
13. Interns should consider how they grew as self-authored learnersusing wisdom found inside themselves.
14. Interns may wish to keep the momentum going by creating a new, informal type of learning contract with themselves.

1. Preparing a Professional Portfolio
2. Portfolios should include:
3. A focus on learning through personal reflections, including metacognition
4. Ways of assessing learning
5. Transformation experienced
6. Mahara is a useful e-portfolio model.
7. Guidelines for creating any portfolio type include:
8. Consult others for idea and resources
9. Create the visionwhat you want from the portfolio
10. Construct the framework (e.g., the ethical decision maker, the civic professional, and the effective organizer)
11. Convey your profile through format and design

KEY CONCEPTS AND TERMS

Closure: Coming to an acceptable ending with a person or an organization; it may involve addressing unfinished issues and planning for the future.

Crisis of closure: The shape of disillusionment in the Culmination Stage, experienced as reacting to the impending end of the internship in self-defeating, counterproductive ways to the extent that the overall feeling about the internship becomes negative.

High Quality Internship (HQI): An internship in which the focus is on learning, with that learning being deep, meaningful, lasting, across multiple domains and dimensions, involving cognitive and affective experiences, and including intentional, transformative learning practices.

Professional portfolio: A version of the portfolio that focuses primarily on presenting the intern's experience, skills, and competencies; a reflective tool that includes varied content categories such as writing samples, sample papers, case studies, project summaries, performance reviews, media coverage of the intern's work, and the intern's reflections on the intern's own work.

Ritual: A symbolic practice used to celebrate or observe events of note.

Termination: The process of ending a relationship with a client.