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May 23, 2025
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2025-2026 University Catalog
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COU 6325 - Counseling Practicum
3 Credits
Practicum is designed as a beginning clinical experience to build knowledge and skills as a counselor through opportunities in an applied setting under significant individual and group supervision where students will demonstrate their clinical skills. Practicum allows the student to gain experience with actual clients, develop the ability to handle a variety of clinical issues and responsibilities, evaluate their practice and observe others in a constructive manner, develop a healthy mastery of ethical practice, and establish professional relationships with co-practicum students, clients, supervisors, and professionals in the field. Content areas include: counselor characteristics and behaviors that influence helping processes including gender and ethnic differences, verbal and nonverbal behaviors, personal characteristics, orientations and skills; client characteristics and behaviors that influence helping processes including gender and ethnic differences, verbal and nonverbal behaviors and personal characteristics, traits, capabilities and life circumstances; factors that influence helping processes including environmental and social factors, relationships external to the helping process and commitment to change. Students are required to complete a total of 100 hours of counseling and related services, 40 of which are direct client contact hours. Written and oral presentations accompanied by audio and video recordings are a basic part of the group supervisory process.
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