Evaluations for the items categorized under the practicum and internship program component were mixed. Dissatisfaction is associated primarily with placement procedures, availability of information on prospective sites and assistance in obtaining a site. The curriculum is seen as superior to what colleagues in their own work setting report they experienced in their graduate programs. Graduates are especially complimentary regarding the curriculum in individual counseling, group counseling, and the infusion of ethics education throughout the curriculum. However, the graduates evaluations point to room for improvement in several areas.
Current students are somewhat less positive over-all.
These concerns are separately discussed in a later section of this report. From their perspective, the strongest areas of the curriculum, both in terms of amount and quality, are the program s field experiences, i.e., counseling practicum and counseling internship, ethics training, individual counseling, and group counseling. The program advising and support services component of the survey elicited their most negative evaluations. Current student evaluations of the practicum and internship program component were mixed. For the most part the student group that completed our survey has now graduated.