The Internship, Practicum, and Field Placement Handbook: A Guide for the Helping Professions (3rd Edition)

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Summary: An excellent resource book for counselors in training.
Review: I have not seen a more comprehensive and readable text available for counseling and psychotherapy trainees preparing for their practical experience. Targeting the beginner, this book offers guidance and insight for several aspects of the training experience that are often overlooked or underemphasized by instructors. More advanced trainees will benefit from this text as well. The chapter on Clinical Writing is the clearest discussion of this subject that I have seen, giving understandable examples of common problems exhibited by trainees, and practical advice for improvement of clinical writing skills. Chapters on stresses encountered in the profession, and self-care strategies for the counselor will not only provide sound advice, but will serve to validate burnout-prevention practices to a student population that is often already over-extended. I can't tell you how pleased I am to be able to offer this book to my students.

Rating:
Summary: An excellent resource book for counselors in training.
Review: I have not seen a more comprehensive and readable text available for counseling and psychotherapy trainees preparing for their practical experience. Targeting the beginner, this book offers guidance and insight for several aspects of the training experience that are often overlooked or underemphasized by instructors. More advanced trainees will benefit from this text as well. The chapter on Clinical Writing is the clearest discussion of this subject that I have seen, giving understandable examples of common problems exhibited by trainees, and practical advice for improvement of clinical writing skills. Chapters on stresses encountered in the profession, and self-care strategies for the counselor will not only provide sound advice, but will serve to validate burnout-prevention practices to a student population that is often already over-extended. I can't tell you how pleased I am to be able to offer this book to my students.

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Summary: Care Givers Companion in working with diversity
Review: Mediators--doctors, social workers, librarians, and others--will definitely find this book very useful in understanding the issues.

For professions, such as the library and information, which does not prioritize internship in its training, are sure to benefit, nevertheless, from the other contents of the book.

Ch. 1 Preparation 1
Ch. 2 Getting Started 17
Ch. 3 Ethical And Legal Issues 28
Ch. 4 Internship Classes and Peer Groups 48
Ch. 5 Supervision 56
Ch. 6 Working with Diversity 77
Ch. 7 Clinical Writing 93
Ch. 8 Records and Progress Notes 102
Ch. 9 Stress and the Helping Professions 114
Ch. 10 Self-care 127
Ch. 11 Assault and Other Risks 139
Ch. 12 Closing Cases 150
Ch. 13 Finishing the Internship 160
Ch. 14 Frustrations, Lessons, Discoveries, and Joy 166

Practicum is anyways a part of such professional courses and this updated version helps all the concerned.