Your Supervised Practicum and Internship: Field Resources for Turning Theory into Action - Softcover

Section I: GETTING STARTED: YOU, SUPERVISION, AND THE SETTINGS. Turning Theory Into Practice: Abilities Needed to Grow. 1. Listening to Tapes and Analyzing Cases: Microcounseling Supervision. 2. Becoming an Effective Supervisee: The Influence of Placement Setting. 3. Continuing Self-Improvement: Major Supervision Model Categories. 4. Conceptualizing the Client: Diagnosis and Related Issues. Section II: KNOWLEDGE NEEDED TO GROW: ISSUES IN PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE. 5. Becoming A Culturally Competent Helping Professional: Appreciation of Diversity. 6. Working with Ethics, Laws, and Professionalism: Best Practice Standards. 7. Counseling Research Outcomes: Discovering What Works. 8. Staying Well: Guidelines for Responsible Living. 9. "Becoming a Professional Helper" Advocacy for Clients, Self and the Profession.

This comprehensive text takes students through the necessary fundamentals of field experience. It helps students understand the supervision process and their place in the agency. Vital topics such as ethics and HIPPA, multicultural issues, tape analysis, and multiple approaches to supervision are included. This text uses the Microskills approach as part of the overall field experience. The authors fully prepare students for more advanced or challenging scenarios they are likely to face as helping professionals. How, for example, do students 'manage up' to their agency supervisors as part of their growth process? And, how do they effectively supervise their peers? Taking a very practical, student-friendly, and holistic approach, this book addresses these needed skills. By reading this book, beginning students in internships and practicum will have a good sense of what actually goes on in an agency or school.