SUMMER INTERNSHIP

REPORT

SUBMITTED BY:

Parneet Kaur (M.A final)

Intern
Tek Chand Sidana Memorial Psychiatric Hospital &
De- addiction centre

I Parneet Kaur student of International College of Girls

M.A (psychology). The IIS university Jaipur permitted to

do my internship in Psychiatry department for 45 days as

this internship was part of my curriculum . I joined Tek
Chand Sidana Memorial Psychiatric Hospital & Deaddiction centre , Sriganganagar (raj) under the
supervision of Dr. Neena Chadha (clinical psychologist).

INTRODUCTION
An internship is a trained and supervised experience in a
professional setting in which the student is learning and gaining
essential experience and expertise. Internship is meant for
introducing candidates either full-time or part-time to a real
world experience related to their career goals and interests. It
may, but does not have to be related connected to ones
academic major or minor. Internship is relatively short term in
nature with the primary focus on getting some on the job
training and taking whats learning in the classroom and
applying it to the real world. Interns generally have a supervisor
who assigns specific tasks and evaluates their overall work. For
internship for credit, usually a faculty sponsor will work along
with the site supervisor to ensure that the necessary learning is
taking place. Interns not gain practical work experience in a
field that students intend to pursue but also build experience in
local, national and international platforms. Internship helps
individual to combine theory with practical work experience.
Internship helps develop professional work habits; provides an
understanding of professional cultures, gives an opportunity to
analyze workplace setting, and offers platforms to compare
difference in work styles.

OBJECTIVES OF INTERNSHIP
The main objective of the internship course is to facilitate
reflection on experiences obtained in the internship and to
enhance understanding of academic material by application in
the internship setting. Internships will provide students the
opportunity to test their interest in a particular career before
permanent commitments are made. Apart from it is more
important because
1. Internship will help the trainees to develop skills and
techniques directly applicable to their careers.
2. Internship will provide students the opportunity to develop
attitudes conducive to effective interpersonal relationship.

WORK EXPERIENCE
During my internship I have gone through the experience of
taking case history, mental status examinations , interview
technique, counseling sessions.
Initially I was asked to observe in- patients and learned how to
take case history under the supervision of Dr. Neena Chadha.
Then I started taking case histories and detailed evalutions of in
door and out door pateints,
Then I attended counseling sessions under the guidance of
clinical psychologist.
I learned interview techniques and conducted on pateints as
well.
At the end I also attended psychotheraphy sessions.

In case history I took detailed describtion of pateints like

NameDurationChief complaintsTreatment historyDrug abuseFamily historyAfter every case history of pateints I had to do mental status
examination of pateints . In mental status examination first
patient was analysed and observed completely while taking case
history than I had to record the pateints appearance ,attitude,
mood and affect, speech wheather it was relevant or not, then
the thought processes of pateints like wheather it follows
obsessive compulsive thoughts .

During my internship pateints commonly had obsessive

compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, substance abuse disorder,
Anxiety, head ache, epilepsy, hysteria, mental retardation,
ADHD etc.
Counseling sessions were conducted on clients who had problem
like parent child relationship , problem in marriage life ,
adjustment problems etc.

I found this internship very helpful in understanding of

academic material by application in the internship setting.
Internships provide me the opportunity to test my interest in this
field of clinical psychology before permanent commitments are
made.