The Successful Internship: Personal, Professional, and Civic Development in Experiential Learning

THE SUCCESSFUL INTERNSHIP: PERSONAL, PROFESSIONAL, AND CIVIC DEVELOPMENT, 4th Edition, offers you more than just a resource for how to find a position or how to interview. It addresses the concerns, emotions, needs, and unique personal challenges that are the essence of an internship or field experience, and focuses on the internship as a vehicle for your development as a civic professional. The authors describe in detail the path of change you'll find yourself embarking on and the challenges you'll face along the way. A four-stage model of the internship process--anticipation, exploration, competence, and culmination--places the material in a meaningful framework that lends structure to your understanding of the work you'll be doing. Available with InfoTrac Student Collections http://gocengage.com/infotrac.

H. Frederick Sweitzer is Provost and Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. Fred has more than 30 years� experience in human services as a social worker, administrator, teacher, and consultant. He placed and supervised undergraduate interns for 20 years and developed the internship seminar at the University of Hartford. Fred brings to his work a strong background in self-understanding, human development, experiential education, service-learning, civic engagement, professional education, and group dynamics. He is on the editorial boards for the journals Human Service Education and Human Services Today, and has published widely in the field.

Mary A. King, Professor Emerita, Fitchburg State University, and NSEE Distinguished Scholar of experiential education, has more than 30 years� experience working with interns and brings a background in public education, juvenile justice, and clinical practice to her academic work. Mary instructed courses in professional and ethical issues, taught service-learning classes, and developed and coordinated the field placement office and supervised graduate and undergraduate internships in the Behavioral Sciences. She publishes in human services and experiential education and has held leadership positions on regional and national education boards, including the National Society for Experiential Education. Mary is a member of the Academic Advisory Group of United Planet and serves on the Board of Directors of the Hypersomnia Foundation.