CNSL 6485 Internship II

The Counseling Internship is a two-semester supervised counseling experience in at a site offering psychological counseling services. The internship provides for the application of theory and the development of counseling skills under supervision by both a site and university supervisor. These experiences will provide opportunities for students to counsel clients who represent the ethnic and demographic diversity of their community. Students are required to have the ability to tape client interactions and to provide evidence of a minimum of 300 clinical hours at the site.

Registration Name

Internship II

Lecture Hours

0

Lab Hours

20

Credits

3

Prerequisite

CNSL 6480, CNSL 6490, CNSL 6530, CNSL 6840

Offered

Online: Fall

Student Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, students will will demonstrate the ability to

initiate, maintain, and terminate ethically, culturally, and developmentally appropriate

counseling skills and characteristics within a broad range of mental health issues including the following:

• strategies for personal and professional self-evaluation and implications. for practice
• self-care strategies appropriate to the counselor role
• the role of counseling supervision in the profession
• multicultural counseling competencies
• a general framework for understanding differing abilities and strategies for differentiated interventions
• ethical and culturally relevant strategies for establishing and maintaining in-person and technology­ assisted relationships
• counselor characteristics and behaviors that influence the counseling process
• essential interviewing, counseling, and case conceptualization skills
• developmentally relevant counseling treatment or intervention plans
• development of measurable outcomes for clients
• strategies to promote client understanding of and access to a variety of community- based resources
• processes for aiding students in developing a personal model of counseling
• principles, models, and documentation formats of biopsychosocial case
• conceptualization and treatment planning
• 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. ,
• impact of crisis and trauma on individuals with mental health diagnoses
• record keeping, third party reimbursement, and other practice and management issues in clinical mental health counseling
• intake interview, mental status evaluation, biopsychosocial history, mental health history, and psychological assessment for treatment planning and
• caseload management
• techniques and interventions for prevention and treatment of a broad range of mental health issues
• strategies to advocate for persons with mental health issues