SA 117 - Clinical Internship II

Credit Hours: 3

The second semester of clinical internship requires an additional 150 hours minimum of practical clinical experience. This semester generally requires the student to perform more hands-on, actual treatment, including individual case management and group therapy responsibilities. Supervised seminars are conducted weekly during scheduled class time. Admission into an internship will be not only based on academic readiness but professional and experiential considerations by the instructor. A student who has completed all the academic requirements may not be permitted to take the internship based on the instructor’s approval. The instructor will determine the student’s level of readiness, appropriateness, performance expectations, and overall suitability for entry into the course.

Course Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

demonstrate an increased knowledge of their learning of intake, individual, and group counseling skills;
demonstrate an increased awareness of how the recovery process is impacted by other psychoactive substance dependencies, psychiatric disorders, and developmental conflicts including children of alcoholics’ residual issues and object relationship impairment;
demonstrate an increased self-understanding of their issues as they relate to becoming a substance abuse counselor through agency supervision, privileging, and clinical internship seminar; and
demonstrate an understanding of schema therapy and its application to addiction clients.

Prerequisites: SA 116 or AC 217
F/S (C)