CP691

This course provides institutional group supervision to students in their mental health internship placement. This format is designed to provide students with experiences in addition to the on-site supervision each student will receive. The class will use a developmental model to focus on counselor growth in competence (skills, techniques), purpose and direction (goal setting, direction in counseling), theoretical identity (application of theory), ethics, respect for individual differences and diversity, and counselor self awareness, sense of personal motivation, and development of appropriate autonomy. Internship provides for the advanced practice of clinical mental health counseling and group work skills under licensure-approved supervision. Agency, client contact, and supervision hours are dictated by each state's licensure board for the pre-master's internship, with a common expectation of 600 agency hours, 240 client contact hours, and 45 supervisory hours (15 individual, 15 group, 15 hours of additional individual or group supervision). NOTE: Students in Addictions Counseling must be placed in an addictions treatment setting for internship. Hours accrued can also be counted towards application for licensure as an Alcohol and Drug Counselor (LADC-1) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the post-masters certificate program or Master of Arts in Counseling: Addictions Counseling degree. Prerequisite: B or better in CP660.

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