PS6807 Practicum and Practicum Seminar 3
Students continue to build relationship and intervention skills, grow in their ability to self-assess, and use research to formulate diagnoses, assessment and interventions. Each student spends at least three hours each week with peers and faculty discussing client cases. Each student spends 600 total hours in his/her external practicum placement, 240 of which are direct client hours. Students learn how to refer to appropriate community resources and how to terminate therapeutic relationships. Students prepare for their entry into the counseling profession by assembling needed materials in order to achieve professional competence: filling out the LMHCA application for Washington state, assembling private practice documentation including informed consent, establishing a web presence that is factually and ethically correct, exploring professional supervision, and preparing for licensing examinations. Attention to culturally competent counseling is a significant part of this course.