CNSL 6450 Practicum

The Counseling Practicum is a one-term supervised counseling experience in at a site offering psychological counseling services. It is designed to place student counselors in extended counseling relationships and situations with a variety of clients under close site and university supervision. Students are required to have the ability to tape client interactions and to provide evidence of a minimum of 100 clinical hours at the site.

Credits

3

Student Learning Outcomes

Student Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course students will:

1. Apply strategies for personal and professional self-evaluation and implications for practice
2. Apply self-care strategies appropriate to the counselor role
3. Participate in the role of counseling supervision in the profession
4. Demonstrate multicultural counseling competencies
5. Demonstrate a general framework for understanding differing abilities and strategies for
differentiated interventions
6. Apply ethical and culturally relevant strategies for establishing and maintaining in-person
and technology-assisted relationships
7. Demonstrate counselor characteristics and behaviors that influence the counseling process
8. Apply essential interviewing, counseling, and case conceptualization skills
9. Construct developmentally relevant counseling treatment or intervention plans
10. Identify development of measurable outcomes for clients
11. Apply strategies to promote client understanding of and access to a variety of community
based resources
12. Understand processes for aiding students in developing a personal model of counseling
13. Understand the principles, models, and documentation formats of biopsychosocial case
conceptualization and treatment planning
14. Employ mental health service delivery modalities within the continuum of care, such as
inpatient, outpatient, partial treatment and aftercare, and the mental health
counseling services networks
15. Understand the impact of crisis and trauma on individuals with mental health diagnoses
16. Demonstrate record keeping, third party reimbursement, and other practice and management issues in clinical mental health counseling
17. Demonstrate intake interview, mental status evaluation, biopsychosocial history, mental health history, and psychological assessment for treatment planning and caseload
management
18. Apply techniques and interventions for prevention and treatment of a broad range of
mental health issues
19. Apply strategies to advocate for persons with mental health issues