Clinical Practicum

Catalog description

This course will give students their first experience of working with clients in a psychological setting. The course will focus on assisting students with their transition to an applied clinical role while attending to their growth as psychological professionals. There will be a focus on integration of psychological theories of counseling and clinical practice. Further, this course will center on ethical issues in counseling, exploring empirically-validated clinical interventions, understanding crisis intervention models, exploring forms of supervision, understanding self-care, and demonstrating case conceptualization skills. The course is designed to meet standards for Pennsylvania Licensed Practicing Counselor (LPC) licensure. The standards for licensure include completing one hundred (100) hours of practicum time prior to placement in an internship. PSYC 895A represents that initial supervised clinical psychology experience. Students will typically complete this experience as part of the training component at the site for their first clinical internship placement, but prior to beginning the internship. Supervising faculty will be licensed or license eligible in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The on-site supervisors must meet the criteria for clinical supervision mandated by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.