Practicum II

Catalog description

This course covers counseling processes, psychotherapeutic techniques, and standards of practice used by marriage and family therapists, professional counselors, and art psychotherapists in a culturally diverse society. The supervised practicum is in applied psychotherapeutic techniques, art therapy and psychological assessment, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment and integrates ethical and legal practices under the supervision of a licensed professional. Students work in a supervised clinical placement, which provides supervised fieldwork experience within the licensing organizations’ scope of practice. Focus is on application of art therapy techniques in a variety of settings and with variations in patient age, practice setting, and type of intervention to provide for specialization in competency areas. Students work to promote health and provide illness prevention while working with dysfunctional and healthy-functioning relationships, which may include couples, families, and parent and child relationships. Students must have both individual and group supervision. Prerequisite: ATM 5355. Corequisite: ATM 5370.