Activities
Weekly Intern Training and Service Activities
The Personal Counseling and Career Development Center Internship is a 2,000 hour, full-time, 12 month internship. Interns are expected to devote 40 hours per week to the internship. There are 12 University holidays and one floating holiday (104 hours) which are included in this 2,000 hour requirement. It is therefore the intern's responsibility to accrue approximately 1,896 hours of service during the year, using the guidelines listed below. These guidelines are based on averages from APA-approved counseling center internships nationally and assume a minimum of 500 direct service hours. As licensure requirements for different states vary, interns should ensure that they accrue sufficient direct service hours (usually 25% of total hours) to be license-eligible.
Direct Service
Direct service is defined loosely as face-to-face contact with public clientele
| Individual Personal Clients | 10 hours/week | |
| Individual and Career Walk-ins | 5 hours/week | |
| Crisis/Intake | 4 hours/week | |
| Outreach/Consultation | 1 hour/week | |
| Supervision Given to Practicum Student | 1 hour/week | |
| Tape Review | 1 hour/week | |
| Case Management | 2 hours/week |
Indirect Service
| A. | Supervision Received | |
| Individual Personal | 2 hours/week | |
| Tape Review | 1 hour/week | |
| Individual Career | 2 hours/month | |
| Personal Case Consultation | 2 hours/week | |
| Summer | 1 hour/week | |
| Career Case Consultation | 1.5 hours/month | |
| Psychiatric Case Consultation | 1 hour/month | |
| Supervision of Supervision Seminar | 4 hours/month | |
| Consultation/Outreach Seminar | 2 hours/month | |
| B. | Professional Development | |
| Dissertation Release, Conferences, Seminars, etc.* | 2 hours/week | |
| Intern Seminar** | 1.5 hours/week | |
| Intern Support Group | 1 hour/week | |
| Professional Development Days | 5 days/year | |
| C. | Meetings | |
| Intern Meetings | 1 hour/week | |
| Counseling and Career Staff Meetings | 1 hour/month | |
| Committee Meetings | 1-2 hours/month (as schedules permit) | |
| D. | Office Administration | 2 hours/week |
* The internship allows two hours of professional development release time per week, depending on the time of year and the status of intern caseloads. At peak times during the year, interns may not routinely be able to use this time, as the center's first priority is client care.
** Topics for intern seminars include, but are not limited to psychological assessment, diversity and multiculturalism, career counseling, supervision, empirically supported treatments and ethical issues. See below about downloading a current seminar schedule.
Intern Seminars
You may view a current schedule of seminars offered to the interns by clicking on the link below. You will need Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the document. Documents will open in a new window.
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