Counselor Education Doctoral Internship

Catalog description

Practical experience in professional counseling & higher education teaching under supervision available only to CN ED doctoral students. This course provides Counselor Education doctoral students with opportunities to apply principles and techniques that expand their counseling and higher education teaching experiences by completing an individual and group supervised internship. A minimum number of total hours required by accreditation must be acquired to meet the program required total 6 credit hours. This is a culmination course that provides for professional demonstration of information and skills developed in preceding courses in the doctoral program. Students in the course will meet the following objectives: a. Demonstrate a personal theoretical counseling orientation that is based on a critical review of existing counseling and teaching theories. b. Demonstrate effective application of theory and professional best practices. c. Demonstrate an understanding of counseling case conceptualization and effective interventions across diverse populations and settings. d. Develop and demonstrate a personal philosophy of teaching and learning. e. Demonstrate course design, delivery, and evaluation methods appropriate to course objectives. f. Demonstrate the ability to assess the needs of counselors in training and develop techniques to help students develop into competent counselors.