Greetings,
Flashback: Graduate school. My first one to one session with a 2nd grade girl named Jennifer. As part of my practicum, each of six sessions were to be audio taped for the professor and I was very nervous. My first task was to establish rapport and get to know her. As I began to chat with her she was somewhat shy but responded to my questions. She gave me eye contact and I carefully paraphrased and reflected her feelings. Somewhere in the middle of the session I called her Jacquelyn. Heartbroken, she stopped, lowered her eyes and said, "My name is Jennifer." In one split second I lost her.
Flashback: Graduate school. My first one to one session with a 2nd grade girl named Jennifer. As part of my practicum, each of six sessions were to be audio taped for the professor and I was very nervous. My first task was to establish rapport and get to know her. As I began to chat with her she was somewhat shy but responded to my questions. She gave me eye contact and I carefully paraphrased and reflected her feelings. Somewhere in the middle of the session I called her Jacquelyn. Heartbroken, she stopped, lowered her eyes and said, "My name is Jennifer." In one split second I lost her.