Restructuring the On-Campus Counselor Education Laboratory: Contemporary Professional Issues
✍ Scribed by IRENE MASS AMETRANO; SUE A. STICKEL
- Book ID
- 102870423
- Publisher
- American Counseling Association
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 853 KB
- Volume
- 38
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0011-0035
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✦ Synopsis
Counselor educators are beginning to address long-standing issues concerning practica, internships, and on-campus clinical training for counseling students (Myers, 1994; Myers & Smith, 1994; Myers & Smith, 1995). Programs that are accredited or seeking accreditation through the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) must meet the standards outlined in Section 111, Clinical Instruction (CACREP, 1994). Students complete a minimum of 100 clock hours of supervised practicum and 600 clock hours of internship after successfbl completion of the practicum. Although practicum need not be completed on campus, programs are to provide "a counseling laboratory that is conducive to modeling, demonstration, and training" (CACREP, 1994, p. 55). Recent changes in the counseling profession have ramifications for the development and operation of on-campus train-Irene Mass Ametrano i s a professor; and Sue A. Stickel i s an associate professor; both in the Department of Leadership and Counseling at Eastern Michigan Uniuersity, Ypsilanti.