EGC 609 School Counselling Internships

The School Counselling Internship III supports the increasingly advanced practice development and transition from student to the role of professional school counsellor, with supervision and guidance from the university instructor and a School Counselling mentor. Learners demonstrate advanced practice skill with microskills and consolidate learning throughout the program in the individual and group critique of a case conceptualization. The intern and mentor complete a final evaluation to assess the intern’s progress in applying the fundamental skills, knowledge and ethics required in the role.

Credits

3

Outcomes

1. This course will prepare students to:
2. Identify and demonstrate advancing ability in the use of microskills, their effect on the client in practice counselling sessions and critically assess the application of theory to practice.
3. Demonstrate integrity and follow ethical standards.
4. Establish a therapeutic alliance.
5. Critically explore and describe one’s thinking, beliefs, emotions, values, and behaviours at an intermediate level (reflection) and the purpose of one’s interaction/ approach in the use of skills or a case.
6. Demonstrate professional administrative and collaborative practices in work with instructor, and follow policy and practice related to internship requirements.
7. Critically assess a case conceptualization from a school counsellor perspective.
8. Apply a reflective process.
9. Apply theory to practice.
10. Explore the transition from student to the role of professional school counsellor.