Course Description

The Counseling Internship is a two-semester supervised counseling experience at a site offering psychological counseling services. The internship provides for the application of theory and the development of counseling skills under supervision by both a site and a university supervisor. These experiences will provide opportunities for students to counsel clients who represent the ethnic and demographic diversity of their community. Students are required to have the ability to tape client interactions and to provide evidence of a minimum of 300 clinical hours at the site.

Course Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, students will:

Apply strategies for personal and professional self-evaluation and implications for practice.
Apply self-care strategies appropriate to the counselor role.
Participate in the role of counseling supervision in the profession.
Demonstrate multicultural counseling competencies.
Demonstrate a general framework for understanding differing abilities and strategies for differentiated interventions.
Apply ethical and culturally relevant strategies for establishing and maintaining in-person and technology-assisted relationships.
Demonstrate counselor characteristics and behaviors that influence the counseling process.
Apply essential interviewing, counseling, and case conceptualization skills.
Construct developmentally relevant counseling treatment or intervention plans.
Identify development of measurable outcomes for clients.
Apply strategies to promote client understanding of and access to a variety of community-based resources.
Understand processes for aiding students in developing a personal model of counseling.
Understand the principles, models, and documentation formats of biopsychosocial case conceptualization and treatment planning.
Employ mental health service delivery modalities within the continuum of care, such as inpatient, outpatient, partial treatment and aftercare, and the mental health counseling services networks.
Understand the impact of crisis and trauma on individuals with mental health diagnoses.
Demonstrate record keeping, third-party reimbursement, and other practice and management issues in clinical mental health counseling.
Demonstrate intake interview, mental status evaluation, biopsychosocial history, mental health history, and psychological assessment for treatment planning and caseload management.
Apply techniques and interventions for prevention and treatment of a broad range of mental health issues.
Apply strategies to advocate for persons with mental health issues.

Textbooks

Martin, D.G. (2011). Counseling and Therapy Skills, 3rd Edition. Long Grove, IL; Waveland Press.

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