Your Supervised Practicum and Internship (2^nd Ed.)
Field Resources for Turning Theory into Action

Your Supervised Practicum and Internship is a complete, up-to-date guide to everything a graduate student in the helping professions needs for a successful practicum, internship, or field experience. This helpful resource takes students through the necessary fundamentals of field experience, helping them understand the supervision process and their place in it. The authors fully prepare students for more advanced or challenging scenarios they are likely to face as helping professionals. The new edition also interweaves both CACREP and NASW standards, incorporates changes brought by the DSM-5, and places special focus on brain-based treatments and neurocounseling. Your Supervised Practicum and Internship takes the practical and holistic approach that students need to understand what really goes on in agencies and schools, providing evidence-based advice and solutions for the many challenges the field experience presents.

Acknowlegements  Section 1: Getting Started—You, Supervision, and the Settings  1. Turning Theory into Practice: Abilities Needed to Grow  2. Listening to Tapes and Analyzing Cases: Microcounseling Supervision  3. Becoming Effective as a Supervisee: The Influence of Placement Setting  4: Continuing Self-Improvement: Major Supervision Model Categories  5. Conceptualizing the Client: Diagnosis and Related Issues  Section Two: Knowledge Needed to Grow—Issues in Professional Practice  6. Becoming a Culturally Competent Helping Professional: Appreciation of Diversity  7. Working with Ethics, Laws, and Professionalism: Best Practice Standards  8. Counseling Research Outcomes: Discovering What Works  9. Staying Well: Guidelines for Responsible Living 10. Becoming a Professional Helper: Advocacy for Clients, Self, and the Profession  Index of Names  Index of Subjects

Lori A. Russell-Chapin, PhD, is professor and associate dean of the College of Education and Health Sciences at Bradley University. She is also codirector for the Center for Collaborative Brain Research (CCBR), a partnership among OSF Saint Francis Medical Center and the Illinois Neurological Institute, and was recently named AMHCA’s national counselor educator of the year.

Nancy E. Sherman, PhD, is professor in the department of leadership in education, nonprofits, and counseling at Bradley University, where she is also clinical coordinator for the master of arts in counseling program.

Allen E. Ivey, PhD, is Distinguished University Professor (emeritus) at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst and president of Microtraining Associates, an educational publishing firm. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology, past president and fellow of the Society of Counseling Psychology of the American Psychological Association, and an elected fellow of the American Counseling Association, Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, and the Asian American Psychological Association.