Full Description
Your Supervised Practicum and Internship is a complete, up-to-date guide to everything a graduate student in the helping professions needs for a successful practicum, internship, or field experience.
This helpful resource takes students through the necessary fundamentals of field experience, helping them understand the supervision process and their place in it. The authors fully prepare students for more advanced or challenging scenarios they are likely to face as helping professionals. The new edition also interweaves both CACREP and NASW standards, and incorporates changes brought by the DSM-5. Its unique focus is on neurocounseling and how bridging brain and behavior assists counselors in becoming more efficacious in treatment selections for talk therapy. Your Supervised Practicum and Internship takes the practical and holistic approach that students need to understand what really goes on in agencies and schools, providing evidence-based advice and solutions for the many challenges field experience presents.
Contents
Section I: Getting Started—You, Supervision, and the Settings 1. Turning Theory into Practice: Abilities Needed to Grow 2. Reviewing and Analyzing Cases: Microcounseling Supervision 3. Becoming Effective as a Supervisee: The Influence of Placement Setting 4. Continuing Self-Improvement: Major Supervision Model Categories 5. Conceptualizing the Client: Diagnosis and Related Issues Section II: Knowledge Needed to Grow—Issues in Professional Practice 6. Becoming a Culturally Competent Helping Professional: Appreciation of Diversity in Action 7. Working with Ethics, Laws, and Professionalism: Best Practice Standards 8. Counseling Research Outcomes: Discovering What Works 9. Staying Well: Guidelines for Responsible Living 10. Becoming a Professional Helper: Advocacy for Clients, Self, and the Profession
