CNSL 6450 Practicum

The Practicum is a one-term supervised counseling experience 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.

Registration Name

Practicum

Credits

3

Prerequisite

CNSL 6100, CNSL 6140, CNSL 6160, CNSL 6180, CNSL 6200, CNSL 6400, CNSL 6410, CNSL 6420, CNSL 6430, and CNSL 6530

Offered

Online: Summer

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, students will:

1. Apply strategies for personal and professional self-evaluation and implications for practice.
2. Implement 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. Utilize 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. Implement 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. Recognize 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.