Practicum in School Counseling

Catalog description

This course is an intensive practical clinical experience, under professional supervision. Supervised experience in counseling is provided through role-playing, recorded counseling sessions, observation, transcript analysis, and evaluation of interviewing/counseling skills techniques. Counseling, consultation, advocacy, assessment, and leadership skills are monitored by faculty via student self-report, journals, video and/or audio recorded counseling sessions, and group supervision. In addition, the course will focus on application of counseling theories and techniques (learned from CNSL 650 and CNSL 655) to practice as a counselor in training in either a P -12 school setting or a mental health counseling site under supervision. A minimum of forty hours of direct counseling/consultation services and a minimum 60 hours of indirect services (for a total of 100 hours) with students and/or clients are required at the site. Supervisors agree to provide the opportunities for students to meet these requirements at their site upon accepting students for placement.