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School Counseling Practicum and Internship
30 Essential Lessons
- Helen S. Hamlet - Kutztown University, PA
November 2016 | 456 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
School Counseling Practicum and Internship: 30 Essential Lessons combines crucial counselor knowledge with the experience of experts in the field into one practical guide for addressing the real world of school counseling. Drawing on more than a decade of teaching, author Helen S. Hamlet, PhD presents a collection of lessons and techniques that includes forms, websites, activities, and current information focusing on a range of challenging issues. This unique text is a resource that practicum and internship students, counselor educators, and practicing school counselors will keep and refer to for years to come.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I. FOUNDATIONS
1. Getting Started
2. Orientation to Practicum/Internship Sites
3. Assessment of Field Experience Student’s Counseling Skill Development
4. American School Counselor Association National Model
5. Documentation, Confidentiality and Informed Consent
6. Accountability Matters: Where Does All the Time Go?
PART II. DIVERSITY AND ADVOCACY
7. Social Justice
8. English Language Learners
9. Working With Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Students
10. Working With Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students
PART III. CRISIS PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION
11. Identifying and Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect
12. Suicide Assessment, Prevention, and Postvention
13. Crisis Management
14. Substance Abuse
15. The School Counselor and Bullying Prevention
PART IV. SKILLS/INTERVENTIONS
16. Classroom Behavioral Observations
17. School Counseling Core Curriculum and How to Write a Lesson Plan
18. Classroom Management
19. Advising, Scheduling, and Then Add In the NCAA Regulations
20. Solution-Focused Counseling Approaches
21. Groups in Schools
22. Mental Health in Schools
PART V. SPECIAL EDUCATION
23. The Role of the School Counselor in Special Education
24. Understanding Psychoeducational Assessments
25. How to Read an IEP
26. How to Write a 504 Plan
PART VI. POSTSECONDARY TRANSITIONS
27. Postsecondary Transitions
28. Postsecondary Transitions for Students With Disabilities
29. How to Write Letters of Recommendation Legally and Ethically
PART VII. TRANSITION FROM GRADUATE SCHOOL TO A LEADERSHIP ROLE IN SCHOOL COUNSELING
30. School Counselors as Leaders
31. Portfolio, Distinguishing Capstone Project, Job Search, and Interviews
Index
“School Counseling Practicum and Internship: 30 Essential Lessons provides thorough, practical lessons for school counselor educators to integrate into practicum and internship classes. These lessons cover many of the essential topics that school counselors-in-training are encountering in clinical work and need guidance on. Students will benefit greatly from the thought-provoking activities and useful forms in this text.”
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
“This is a working manual—a guide book to be consulted time and time again. This book will become worn and dog-eared from use when the intern becomes a school counselor.”
University of Massachusetts, Boston
“This text provides the hands-on support that new school counselors need to be successful in their positions.”
Centenary College
