Designed to accompany students as they advance through practicum and internship, Practicum and Internship Experiences in Counseling helps bridge the gap from theory to practice. It covers the day-to-day elements of practice in agencies and schools that are often missing from the theory-based courses. Chapters are packed with case examples, activities, voices from the field, and self-assessments, including tools for assessing and addressing ethnocentrism, intersectionality, and bias in counseling practice.

This resource orients clinical students to the field, while providing them with the day-to-day skills they need to thrive.

Special focus on:

• Expectations and how to get the most out of the supervision process
• Assessment and intervention with clients in danger and crisis
• Wellness and developing healthy work and personal habits to carry through one's entire career.

Readers see clearly how to:

• Apply the laws and ethics in everyday clinical practice
• Work with special issues (neuropsych and psychopharmacology) and populations
• Market and position oneself in the job market, with an eye toward growing/marketing a counseling practice after graduation

Included in each chapter:

• Several self-assessment activities encouraging self-reflection and self-assessment on the concepts of the chapter
• Voices from the field features providing firsthand, in-the-trenches perspectives from counselors who have "been there and done that."
• Realistic case examples challenging readers to apply knowledge and skills to realistic cases they are likely to encounter in the field

Included are separate chapters on:

• Relationship building
• Goal setting
• Record keeping
• The integration of theory into practice