Extra hours usually count toward Psychology 4800, Advanced Practicum, credit. On-site hours, supervision, travel, planning and review time all count as part of the 90 hours. Class and paper writing time do not count. The seminars address important professional, clinical, ethical and legal issues which cannot be easily found in books. As a result, attendance at these seminars is required.
Perfect attendance raises the course grade by one step.
Each class missed, and not made up, lowers the final grade by one step. Ethical cases, managing violent clients and open discussion will be integrated into most classes. SUU practicum students are nearly always mature, conscientious and competent. As a result they receive positive evaluations by supervisors. An unusually positive, or negative, evaluation, however, can add or subtract steps, according to the judgment of the professor.