Supervised Field Placement IV

Catalog description

The Integrative Proseminar is a one-year long capstone course required for graduating MA students. It is an opportunity for students to have a guided experience in integrating their learning and demonstrate their ability to apply their knowledge, skills and abilities in clinical practice. The course fulfills Ferkauf's requirement to complete a final experience that includes use of content from all core courses prior to graduation. Students attend a proseminar which includes applying skills in work with individuals, families and groups. Students must attend all classes, participate in group supervision and take two exams in order to pass the course. Grading for the course will be 'P' or 'F'. Students cannot pass this course unless they meet all other program requirements. SFP III: A presentation on a clinical case. Students must describe their theoretical orientation to counseling and include in their presentation a discussion of their own personal theory of change. The presentation also must include a short role play and/or re-enactment on audio tape of an example of when they demonstrated a successful therapeutic interaction (e.g. one that led to positive results for their client) and one example of when they did something in the counseling session that did not result in a positive interaction (e.g. a situation where they 'wished they had done something differently.') They must explain what alternative interventions might have been more productive. The goal is to identify helpful (or not helpful) stylistic interventions so they can be either embellished or minimized as they develop counselor skills. SFP IV: The final project which serves as the critical competency examination for our Mental Health Counseling program will consist of a video presentation of them conducting a counseling session of one of their cases in Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology's Parnes…