Almost a year ago exactly, circumstances aligned that I knew for sure that I could not stay in the work position I was in:  I couldn’t do good for it, and it wasn’t doing me any good.

But I had worked so hard to understand clinical practice as a speech-language pathologist in a supervisory capacity:  that role, that teaching, that responsibility.  A  lot of my time, energy, and resources had been dedicated to learning as much as I could.  My mind and sense of investment still haven’t quite adapted to letting that go.  I also had the time to think about it and try to come to a more coherent review of it all.

The result is what I characterize as a first-person account.  It includes how I thought/felt/approached things and specific resources.  I think it has helped me to process things, and I like to think that it may be helpful to someone else.

Conversations About Conversations:  Graduate Student Clinicians 1 includes a review of how I related to being a clinical supervisor generally, and primarily focuses on the practicalities of the situation.

Conversations About Conversations:  Graduate Student Clinicians 2 applies more specifically to my sense of how to teach being a speech-language pathologist to individuals with complex communication needs.

Conversations About Conversations:  References are the resources that I pulled from in a semi-APA style, I think.  I didn’t work to hard to get it formatted that way because this really is not a research thing.

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