Internship, Practicum, and Field Placement Handbook
Subtitle: A Guide for the Helping Professions (5th Edition)
Edition: 5 edition
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: February 7, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780132238809
Subjects: Counselling; Psychology; Textbooks; Education & Training; Psychology & Psychiatry Profession - General; Psychotherapy - Counseling; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; General; Counseling; Counselors; Social work education; Study and teaching; Training of
Table of contents: title: 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 -- 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 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 -- 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 & groups -- Liability and insurance -- Technology and ethics -- Research ethics -- 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 -- Tapes 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 -- Reasons for diversity training -- Resistance to diversity training -- Steps toward working with differences -- Knowing the diversity within us -- Confronting our biases and acknowledging our ignorance -- Knowledge and appreciation of the client’s perspective -- The historical context must be acknowledged -- The current context must be acknowledged -- Strengths must be recognized along with problems -- Ethnic identity development -- Developing culturally sensitive and relevant skills -- The culturally sensitive counselor -- Culturally sensitive intervention approaches -- Cultural and organizational change -- 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 -- Structured note formats -- SOAP notes -- Time-sequenced notes -- Process or progress notes -- Signing notes -- Dictation -- Progress notes and supervision -- Using your notes -- Other guidelines -- Client after client, day after day -- How common is stress among helping professionals? -- Sources of stress -- The effects of stress -- Secondary trauma -- Burnout -- Self-care -- 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 -- The 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 violence with clients -- Responding to assault -- Assault response training -- Aftereffects -- Stalking -- Ethical considerations and termination -- Understanding client reactions to early termination -- Common problems in termination -- Toward successful termination or transfer -- Issues to address in termination -- Techniques for termination -- Transferring clients to other therapists -- 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 -- Learning from whatever happens -- Lessons we wish were not true -- Lessons about the lessons -- Discoveries and joy -- Closing comments.