LAMAR UNIVERSITY
BEAUMONT,
TEXAS 77710
SYLLABUS FOR CNDV 5392 and CNDV 5393

COMMUNITY COUNSELING PRACTICUM

Instructor: Carolyn Crawford, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Counseling & Development
Office Phone # 409-880-8672
Home Phone # 409-832-0344 (For Emergencies)
E-mail: crawfordch@hal.lamar.edu
Lamar Office: Room number 204, Education Building
Office Hours: Tuesday 10-12 am.; 1-3:30 p.m.
Wednesday 10-12:00 am.; 1- 3:30p.m.
Thursday 10:00-12:00 a.m.;1 - 3:30p.m.
Other times by appointment
Class Location: Room 204, Education Building
Class Time: TBA
Attendance Policy: Attendance is important and expected at each class meeting.
Required Textbook:

It is recommended that students purchase a book entitled Therapist's Guide to Clinical Intervention: The 1-2-3s of Treatment Planning by Sharon L. Johnson.

Academic Honesty: Academic Dishonesty, Misconduct, Discipline Code. Student conduct regulations, as found in the Lamar . University-Beaumont Student Handbook, apply to all graduate students. These regulations include policies relating to academic dishonesty, plagiarism, University disciplinary code, and student rights and responsibilities. It is the responsibility of all graduate students to read the Student Handbook and to abide by all University regulations
Course Description: This course provides field experiences in counseling in an appropriate school or agency; students spend a minimum of 150 clock hours under supervision in the delivery of a counseling service. A minimum of 100 clock hours must be in direct contact. The course is taken twice for a total of 6 hours.The course is taken in the last two semesters of the student's program.
Practicum Objectives: The Practicum is designed to provide the student with experience in delivering guidance and counseling services under the supervision of a certified and/or licensed professional provider of guidance and counseling services or the administrator who supervises counseling services. On completion of this experience, the Practicum student should be proficient in counseling skills appropriate to the setting in which the Practicum was completed. Minimum proficiencies include the ability to:

1. Describe the organizational structure and counseling program of the school or agency.

2. Assess an individual or group of individuals in terms of guidance/counseling/referral needs.

3. Provide a written assessment of the individual or group with analysis and rationale for services/referral needed.

4. Provide the guidance, counseling, consultation, and other related services to include:
    a. establishing a therapeutic relationship with the individual/group/family,
    b. providing guidance/counseling on an individual/group/family,
    c. using assessment data, and
    d. making appropriate referrals according to legal and ethical guidelines.

5. Determine ways in which the Code of Ethics of the American Counseling Association applies to the services provided.
Course Requirements:

1. Prior to beginning the Practicum, the student will submit the following to the instructor:
  a. personal data sheet (attachment 1)
  b. supervisory agreement (attachment 2)

2. The student will complete a minimum of 150 clock hours of guidance/counseling activities as assigned by the on-site supervisor. One hundred of the 150 hours must involve direct client contact. Direct client contact may include educational, vocational, personal, and or interpersonal guidance/counseling activities involving direct contact with the client or group of clients. Additional activities may include guidance program planning, documentation of guidance/counseling activities, consultation with other professionals and presentations regarding guidance/counseling programs. Any questions regarding credible guidance/counseling activities should be addressed to the instructor. The student is expected to work on the practicum hours throughout the semester and may not document more than twenty direct contact hours in a given week.

3. Each Practicum Instructor will schedule meetings with students throughout the semester.

4. Satisfactory course completion will require the student to submit to the instructor:
    a.A log documenting 150 hours of guidance/counseling activities, signed by the
        site supervisor.
    b.One written case presentation of services to an Individual client.
        (may be personal, vocational, educational, etc.)
        The following information will be included.
      1. Referral source.
      2. Reason for the referral problem.
      3. Intake assessment.
      4. Progress notes and outcome.
      5. Ethical implications of services provided.
      6. Case summary.
    c. An evaluation of the Practicum experience.
    d. A supervisor evaluation of the Practicum student mailed to the
        University instructor.

5. Abide by the ACA Code of Ethics.

6. Purchase of professional liability insurance is recommended.

          Click on the links below:

          Community and School Counseling Practicum Data Sheet

          Practicum Supervisory Agreement

          Lamar University-Graduate Student Community Counseling Practicum Log

          Summary of Counseling Log




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