Practicum Basics
A person approved by the Walden University Field office and identified on your application to provide on-site oversight and guidance.
Who is my site supervisor?
This document identifies ethical considerations for both professional counselors and counselors-in-training.
What is the ACA Code of Ethics?
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A document that provides guidelines for students and faculty regarding the field experience.
What is the Field Manual?
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Student demonstrates ability to acquire and integrate ethical codes, accreditation standards, and institutional policy into one’s repertoire of professional behavior in all settings.
What is Congruence?
A link that is provided within each course room that identifies and demonstrates each of the counseling skills learned throughout the program.
What is the COUN in the Know, Counseling Skills Resource?
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Who is my faculty supervisor?
An Ethical Principle that requires counselors to treat individuals equitably and foster fairness and equality.
What is Justice?
Coursework Requirements, Hourly Requirements, and Administrative/Evaluation Requirements can be found here.
What is Satisfactory Completion of Field Experiences?
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Student exhibits willingness to engage in self-examination, challenge assumptions, and integrate feedback to reach an acceptable level of competency.
What is Growth?
Identifying a feeling that has not been verbally expressed.
What is Reflection of Feeling?
To earn points here, please identify three feelings that your team is feeling right now.
I have logged my hours in Meditrek but they are not showing up.
What are the official hours? Official hours will only "show up" when time logs are signed by both your site supervisor and your faculty supervisor.
Students and supervisees have a responsibility to understand and follow the ACA Code of Ethics. Students and supervisees have the same obligation to clients as those required of professional counselors.
What is F.5. Student and Supervisee Responsibilities F.5.a. Ethical Responsibilities.
Documentation of Field Experience Hours: Direct service hours include those that utilize graduate-level counseling skills with actual clients present. Direct service hours that are not of a counseling nature or not at the graduate level should be logged as "Other Indirect Hours”
What is Field Experience Requirements?
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Student displays contextual and cultural competency by valuing the fundamental rights, dignity, and worth of all people—including respect for age, culture, disability, ethnicity, race, religion/spirituality, gender, sexual orientation, marital/partnership status, language preference, socioeconomic status, veteran status, immigration status, or any basis proscribed by law or as defined by potential clients’ experience.
What is Impartiality?
Directly addressing an expressed perspective and offering a potentially different perspective using the same evidence.
What is Reframe?
In addition to coursework, what are the requirements for the Practicum course? Name a minimum of 5 requirements.
What is:
Satisfactory on skills demonstrations
Direct Hours 40
Site Supervision Hours 10
Faculty Group Supervision Hours 15
Total hours 100
Site Visit
Satisfactory Evaluations (mid and final)
Counselors accurately represent their own professional qualifications, correcting any misrepresentations. They clearly differentiate paid from volunteer experience and truthfully describe their education and training.
This is why you are required to disclose that you are an intern to your clients.
What is C.4. Professional Qualifications C.4.a. Accurate Representation?
You should not plan time off for vacations or other commitments during enrollment in field experience. This is subject to sanctions up to and including earning an Unsatisfactory (U) grade in the field experience course. You should consult with faculty for any unavoidable exceptions (e.g., scheduled site closings). You may be permitted to take leaves of absence between quarters of field experience in accordance with university policies and processes.
What is Field Experience Readiness?
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Student exhibits ability to control personal stress, self-disclosure, and excessive emotional reactions that interfere with professional functioning.
What is Discipline?
Giving the client the space to continue to reflect, pause, and experience without interruption.
The client will re-engage verbally when they are ready.
What is Silence?
Found in Meditrek, this page provides a summary of all Practicum requirements and indicates whether the Practicum has been completed satisfactorily or unsatisfactorily.
What is the Grading Checklist?
Codes that address: Counselors are committed to ethical, nondiscriminatory practice, effective communication, and professional competence while facilitating access to services and advocating for systemic change. They contribute to the counseling field through research, community service, and self-care, upholding their responsibilities to clients and society.
What is Section C of the ACA Code of Ethics?
You will be approved to participate in the field experience only as specifically documented on your field experience application. Any changes whatsoever (including to sites, site supervisors, or provision of in-home or TMH services) must be approved in advance.
You should immediately notify your faculty supervisor and the SOC-OFE (counselingfield@mail.waldenu.edu) if any changes are needed.
What is Changes in Field Experience?
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Student punctually attends scheduled meetings, actively contributes in required academic settings, and promotes other students’ learning. This includes engaging in Faculty Group Supervision and submitting assignments on time.
What is Engagement?
Driving change toward the purpose/goal. In productive sessions, the majority of time is spent in this stage.
Examples of supportive Microskills are: silence, confrontation of contradictions, reframe, interpretation, feedback, directives, sharing information.
What is the Mesoskill of Work?