CNS8972

Doctoral Internship II

The purpose of Internship II is to expand the breadth of experience acquired through Internship I to prepare students for career goals in counselor education and/or professional counseling settings. Between Internship I and II, students must document a total of 600 hours of approved internship activities in at least three of the five doctoral curricular areas (counseling, teaching, supervision, research/scholarship, and leadership/advocacy), which satisfies the CACREP requirement of doctoral preparation. In Internship II, students gain clinical experience by providing clinical supervision. Students develop internship plans that are guided by professional interests and goals that extend their work beyond current or past levels of experience in at least one of the other following areas: 1) teaching, 2) research and scholarship, and 3) leadership and advocacy, or 4) counseling (e.g., novel clinical population or technique). Students document their progress throughout the course and process their learning on an ongoing basis. Because the purpose of the doctoral internship is to expand professional experiences, current job responsibilities cannot be used to satisfy the 600-hour internship requirement.

School of Ed. and Human Svcs.