CSP 6320 Clinical Mental Health Practice

This course consists of the student’s first fieldwork experience. Students become counselor trainees and learn in an applied setting how to assess and understand the problems of clients and client’s behavior. Counselor trainees learn to utilize and further develop their basic counseling skills by use of review and critiquing of audio and video taped client sessions. Counselor trainees also have the benefit of individualized supervision by course instructors and site supervisors.This course also provides students on opportunity to explore their own philosophy of change in the counseling setting based on established counseling theory. Students will be challenged to conceptualize and develop treatment plans based on clients they are seeing in their field placement. Prerequisite(s): CSP 6010, CSP 6030, CSP 6060, CSP 6210, CSP 6220
Credits: 3.0