MHS 6805

Advanced Individual and Group Counseling

Counseling Psychology Practicum

Career Center

Spring 2009

 

 

Instructor: Jeff W. Garis Ph.D.

Time: Tuesday, 2:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Phone/email:  644-9771; jgaris@admin.fsu.edu

Office: 2105 Dunlap Success Center

 

 

Purpose

 

The goal of the second semester of practicum in the Career Center is to facilitate the integration of career counseling and mental health counseling into a personal theory of human development and ways that you as a Counseling Psychologist may assist individuals in helping them fulfill their potential in all facets of life/career development.

 

Assumptions

 

·         Career counseling and mental health counseling are artificial distinctions in counseling or therapeutic process. 

 

·         Individuals operate as integrated systems in which career decision making and personal and social adjustment are all inextricably involved in successful adaptation.  They influence and are influenced by one another.

 

·         Doctoral-level counseling psychologists are able to assist individuals with all aspects of personal and social development, including career decision making.

 

·         Doctoral students have mastered a variety of therapeutic techniques, case management skills, and locating career information resources available in the Career Center.

 

·         You are professionals and behave accordingly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Course objectives

 

By the end of this practicum you have demonstrated mastery of the following:

 

            1.  Comprehensive career assessments including SDS, Strong Interest Inventory, MMPI, CTI, and Computer Assisted Career Guidance Systems (CACG’s).

 

            2.   A full range of potential counseling techniques useful in counseling individuals with career and personal concerns.  

 

            3.  The use of a professional identity and activity paper as a method of documenting professional development and accomplishments.

 

 

 

 

Course requirements

 

1.      Attendance and participation.   Students are expected to arrive on time and to provide good service to clients.  When you are not working on the floor or working directly with clients, you may use the time productively for case write-ups, developing the professional paper, discussing cases or issues with fellow classmates or the instructor, reading or studying literature related to career counseling and/or working on an assessment system.

 

2.      Use of the Counseling Observation Rooms.  The observation rooms will be used as a first priority for counseling sessions whenever the room is available.  These room allows the practicum supervisor to directly observe counseling sessions and to provide immediate feedback pertaining to communication skills, intervention strategies, and case management. 

 

3.      Supervisor consultation.  The faculty supervisor will be available in his office whenever he is not in the observation room.  Please feel free to consult the supervisor on the interpretation of assessments and case management. Also, 30 minutes per week of supervision will be provided by a Program Director, Faculty member or Assistant Director for Career Advising, Counseling and Programming.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.  Professional identity and activity paper.  The professional paper is a    documentation of your professional approach to counseling as well as practicum activities and accomplishments.

 

a. Professional statement

1. Personal & professional development leading to a career as a Counseling Psychologist.

2. Personal philosophy of counseling.

3. Theoretical approach to counseling.

4. Strengths and limitations as a counselor.

5. Types of clients, behaviors and/or presenting concerns that are particularly challenging.

6. Internship goals

7. Professional goals

 

b. Goals for the spring practicum (Part I due January 20)

 

 

c. Log of client contacts

1.      name

2.      date

3.      appointment/question

4.      action

 

d. Case studies (2)

1.      presenting problem

2.      assessments  (append and include CTI, SDS, Strong, MMPI-2  and others you select)

3.      career diagnosis  

4.      any mental health diagnosis (DSM IV)

5.      individual learning plan (ILP)

6.      case notes

7.      conclusions/outcomes

 

e. The extent of attainment of your practicum goals

 

f. Adjustments/changes to your professional statement.

 

g. Recommendations/suggestions to improve the practicum (Part II due April14)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Texts

 

Brown, D. & Associates (2002).  Career choice and development, 4th edition.  San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Peterson, G.W., Sampson, J.P. Jr., & Reardon, R.C. (1991).  Career development and services: A cognitive approach.  Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.  (Placed on reserve in CRC Stone Building.)

Sampson, J.P. Jr, Reardon, R.C., Peterson, G.W., & Lenz, J. G. (2004). Career Counseling and Services: A cognitive information processing approach.  Pacific Grove, CA:Brooks/Cole.

 

 

 

 

 

Evaluation

 

            Counseling case presentation skills 40%

            Attendance and participation           20%

            Portfolio                                          40%

 

            Criteria

 

            A= Excellent graduate performance, ready to perform counseling with individuals                                     with career and mental health concerns at a highly proficient level

            B= Good, acceptable graduate performance, ready to perform counseling with                               individuals with career and mental health concerns at a proficient level

            C= Weak, less than acceptable.  Recommend repeating the practicum.

 

 

Course format

 

            You will be assigned certain times to monitor the desk and to schedule clients.  Group staffing of cases and instructor presentations will be held from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.

I will be in my office and available for individual consultation on any matter you may wish to discuss throughout the time the Career Center is open.