The internship, practicum, and field placement handbook
Subtitle: a guide for the helping professions
By: Brian N. Baird
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, NJ
Language: eng
Format: Trade Paperback
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780205804962
Table of contents: title: Preparation. Theory into practice -- Terminology -- Meeting with your instructor -- Finding and selecting a placement -- Peers and campus resources for locating internships -- Community resources -- Choosing a placement -- The rights of applicants and character requirements for interns -- Internship agreements -- Evaluation -- Using this book -- References -- Getting started. First impressions -- Enthusiasm meets experience -- The role of the intern -- The role of the professional -- Making the most of your internship -- Meeting clients -- Age and experience issues with clients and supervisors -- Time limits -- Fees for service -- Altruism versus money -- Clinical and ethical issues pertaining to fees -- Is treatment effective? -- Inoculation: what not to learn -- Internship classes and peer groups -- Forming internship peer groups -- Models of peer group learning -- Elements of successful classes and groups -- Video or audio recordings of sessions -- Role-plays -- Introduction to journal work -- References -- Ethical and legal issues. Ethical guidelines of the helping professions -- Competence -- Informed consent -- Confidentiality -- Exceptions to confidentiality-- Insurance company inquiries, managed care, and ethical practice -- Confidentiality with minors -- Dual relationships and boundary issues -- Ethics in classes and groups -- Liability and insurance -- Technology and ethics -- Research ethics -- Summary -- References -- Supervision. What is supervision? -- Hopes and fears of interns -- Hopes and fears of supervisors -- Clarifying expectations -- Frequency and timing of supervision -- Content of supervision -- Didactic supervision -- Case notes and discussions -- Video and audio recordings and role-plays -- Live supervision -- Observing the supervisor in therapy -- Remote supervision: internet, telephone, and other technologies -- Group supervision -- Theoretical orientation -- Supervision and therapy: differences and similarities -- Transference and countertransference -- Suggested guidelines for therapy and supervision -- Conflict in supervision -- Evaluation -- Planning for future supervision -- References -- Working with diversity. Reasons for diversity training -- Resistance to diversity training -- A reformulation of diversity -- Steps toward working with differences: awareness, knowledge, and understanding of self and others -- Developing culturally sensitive and relevant skills -- Cultural and organizational change -- References -- Clinical writing, treatment records, and case notes -- Writing skills -- Writing can be learned -- Focusing reading to learn writing -- Practice and feedback -- Rewriting -- Common writing problems -- Keys to good writing -- The function and maintenance of records -- What goes into records -- What stays out of records -- Progress notes and psychotherapy notes -- Standard formats -- Progress notes and psychotherapy notes -- Standard formats -- Progress notes -- Structured note formats -- SOAP notes -- Time-sequenced notes -- Process notes -- Signing notes -- Dictation -- Progress notes and supervision -- Using your notes -- Other guidelines -- References -- Stress and self-care. Client after client, day after day -- How common is stress among helping professionals? -- Impaired students -- Sources of stress -- The effects of stress -- Secondary trauma -- Burnout -- Self-care -- Closing sessions -- Cognitive self-care -- Physical self-care -- Emotional self-care -- Organizational measures and peer support -- Multimodal self-care -- Personal therapy -- Positive effects on therapists -- Financial self-care -- References -- Assault and other risks. Risks of assault -- Coping with aggression -- Strange behavior and strange people are not necessarily dangerous -- Understand developmental differences -- Understand and recognize motivational factors -- Situational factors and violence -- Recognize potentially dangerous individuals -- Early prevention of violence -- Institutional responses to threats of violence -- Prevention of imminent client violence -- Responding to assault -- Assault-response training -- After-effects -- Stalking -- Summary -- References -- Closing cases -- Ethical considerations and termination -- Understanding client reactions to termination -- Understanding intern reactions to termination -- Common problems in termination -- Toward successful termination or transfer -- Issues to address in termination -- Techniques for termination -- Transferring clients to other therapists -- References -- Finishing the internship. Concluding the supervisory relationship -- Letters of recommendation -- Procedures for those seeking letters of recommendation -- Concluding relationships with staff -- Letters of thanks -- Looking ahead -- Professional, community, and political involvement -- References -- Frustrations, lessons, discoveries, and joy. Learning from whatever happens -- Lessons we wish were not true -- Lessons about the lessons -- Discoveries and joy -- Closing comments -- Appendix A: internship selection checklist -- Appendix B: placement information form -- Appendix C: internship learning agreement record form -- Appendix D: intern evaluation: supervisor form -- Appendix E: intern evaluation: intern form -- Appendix F: emergency contact and procedures information -- Appendix G: ethical guidelines -- Appendix H: treatment agreement and informed consent -- Appendix I: supervisor evaluation form -- Appendix J: clinical activities record sheet -- Appendix K: placement evaluation form.