COU 6251 - Counseling Internship I

8 Credits
Internship I involves a practical clinical experience in an approved agency or other appropriate setting with an approved supervisor. This counseling internship provides a 21-week, supervised, field-based, work experience wherein students integrate and synthesize counseling theories and techniques, develop the professional qualities, characteristics, and behaviors of a counselor, and develop more advanced clinical reasoning and conceptualization skills. Students must successfully complete 650 of the required 700 hours of supervised counseling/clinical experience to pass Internship I. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading.

Prerequisite: COU 5010, COU 5012, COU 5016, COU 5210, COU 5212, COU 5214, COU 6010, COU 6214, and COU 6216.