CL573 Counseling Internship I
Internship is an intensive counseling experience that provides the student with the opportunity to perform a variety of counseling activities expected of a professional mental health counselor. Students will learn and develop counseling skills, initial diagnostic competencies, client record keeping, and the formation of treatment plans through a combination of lecture, demonstration, experiential activities, and guided practices. Students will receive supervised experience in counseling and interview evaluation, including use of audio and video tapes, and client and supervisor feedback. In the field placement portion of the internship, the student will work under the direct supervision of a professional who is a licensed professional counselor, a licensed psychologist, a licensed psychiatrist, or a licensed social worker. If a student is employed where they do their internship, the students’ employment hours and responsibilities cannot be counted toward their internship hours and responsibilities. The student must be supervised at the ratio of at least one (1) hour of one-to-one supervision for every ten (10) hours of experience in the field setting. Each student is required to complete six (6) semester credit hours of internship, within which he or she must log a minimum of 240 clock hours of direct service with actual clients and 360 hours of indirect counseling, for a total of at least 600 training clock hours. The internship experience may be broken up into 2-3 graduate credit hours per semester, depending on agreement between advisor and student. Internship is set in both a classroom and a clinical field setting. Core (CSR, K) Restrictions: Liability insurance is required of all internship students; students will submit a copy of their liability insurance before beginning at their internship site. Additional Prerequisites / Conditions: CL563 or combination of CL563/CL564; graduate status; application, and approval of academic advisor.