Practicum in Mental Health Counseling

Catalog description

This counseling practicum is an introductory supervised clinical experience intended to enable the student to develop basic counseling skills in one-to-one and group sessions. One of the primary goals is to integrate academic training with professional experience. This course requires that students have been approved to register by the graduate coordinator and has secured an approved practicum in a mental health counseling facility in consultation with the internship coordinator and professor of the practicum course. Students will complete at least 100 hours of the 700 hours (consisting of PSY 694 : Practicum in Mental Health Counseling, PSY 675 : Field Experience in Counseling I & PSY 676 : Field Experience in Counseling II) of supervised experience for the 60 credit degree program in Mental Health Counseling.