Capstone: Day 13

      My mentor will be out of town this week, so I met with his assistant/secretary today. She goes to his office once a week to do all the clerical and administrative work. The purpose of the session was for me to be exposed to the whole filing aspect when it comes to psychology. My mentor has drawer fulls of files of his patients, and I thought that was a lot. It turns out that there are other practices filled with walls of patient files. While I was there, we also talked about the different types of psychologists. This touched more on my future and what I would consider doing if I were to pursue a PhD in psychology. Reflecting back on that conversation, if I were to really pursue that goal, I would want to a be psychologist who either works with children with mental retardation, hard core criminals,  or the mentally insane. This connects back to another conversation we had where we talked about how everything depends on the person and what they view to be interesting, which is how psychologists choose their field. Either way, the best psychologists are those who are able to develop a strong mentality because they are exposed to different, mind altering circumstances every single day.