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 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 300 of the required hours of supervised counseling/clinical experience to pass Internship I.

Note: For those seeking ADC licensure, students will need to complete 880 hours of internship (within COU 6251 - Internship I and COU 6252 - Counseling Internship II , if needed), covering all 12 core functions, under the supervision of a licensed alcohol and drug counselor. All ADC emphasis courses must be completed PRIOR to internship. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading.

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