Internship I

Catalog description

The counseling Internship is designed to meet the CACREP accreditation standards in a seminar-style class with presentation and discussion of clinical cases, with regard to multiculturalism, ethical principles, and counseling profession identity through didactic instruction. The internship course provides a systematic sequence of professional experiences working in a field placement under weekly and group supervision of a certified counseling professional. The program requires candidates to complete a clinically supervised internship of 300 clock hours which is to be fulfilled in an academic term to include a minimum of 120 hours per semester of direct hours with clients, of which it is preferred that a fourth of these hours be in group work. The remaining 180 hours per semester consists of indirect hours accrued performing other counseling-related duties required to assess and treat mental health issues as categorized in the standard diagnostic nomenclature of Virginia and approved by the internship supervisor and course instructor.