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    Internships offer students valuable firsthand experience with reasonably set workloads and expectations. Students will gain personal insights on learning the policies, procedures and philosophies of an organization and how to incorporate them into their own workflow.

    • Clinical Handbook

    Students are therefore required to complete a minimum 600 clock hours of supervised clinical/field experience; including a minimum of 240 hours of direct service with clients.

    Indirect Services

    • Consultation with another counselor about a client you are seeing
    • Observing a counseling session
    • Scheduling a counseling session with a parent or client in person or over the phone
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    • Planning for the next counseling session or group
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    • Individual, couples, family and group counseling sessions
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    • Non-scheduled, drop-in clients
    • Discussion about possible career options with an undergraduate student
    • Substance abuse counseling
    • Crisis intervention on a hotline at the internship site
    • Intakes and psychological assessments
    • Resume-building and career development that includes therapeutic component
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