CNSL 670 - Practicum in School Counseling

Credit(s): 3
3 hours lecture, 3 hours contact
Prerequisite(s): CNSL 618, CNSL 630, CNSL 640, CNSL 643, CNSL 648, CNSL 650, CNSL 651, CNSL 655, CNSL 660
This course is an intensive practical clinical experience, under professional supervision. Supervised experience in counseling is provided through role-playing, recorded counseling sessions, observation, transcript analysis, and evaluation of interviewing/counseling skills techniques. Counseling, consultation, advocacy, assessment, and leadership skills are monitored by faculty via student self-report, journals, video and/or audio recorded counseling sessions, and group supervision. In addition, the course will focus on application of counseling theories and techniques (learned from CNSL 650 and CNSL 655) to practice as a counselor in training in either a P -12 school setting or a mental health counseling site under supervision. A minimum of forty hours of direct counseling/consultation services and a minimum 60 hours of indirect services (for a total of 100 hours) with students and/or clients are required at the site. Supervisors agree to provide the opportunities for students to meet these requirements at their site upon accepting students for placement. Offered only in spring