This ready-to-use resource provides the practical, nitty-gritty information and hands-on skills interns and practicum students need to successfully complete their clinical experiences-and proudly join the counseling profession with confidence. Designed to accompany students as they advance through practicum and internship, Clinical Experiences in Counseling helps bridge the gap from theory to practice at the most critical juncture of their training-practicum and internship. It covers the day-to-day elements of practice in agencies and schools that are often missing from the theory-based courses. Packed with case examples, self-assessments, activities, and "voices from the field, this resource orients clinical students to the field, while providing them with the day-to-day information they need, not only to survive, but to thrive.

Special focus on:

• Expectations and how to get the most out of the supervision process.
• Assessment and intervention with clients in danger and crisis.
• Wellness and developing healthy work and personal habits to carry through one's entire career.

Readers see clearly how to:

• Apply the laws and ethics in everyday clinical practice.
• Work with special issues (neuropsych and psychopharmacology) and populations.
• Market and position oneself in the job market, with an eye toward growing/marketing a counseling practice after graduation.

Included In each chapter:

• Several self-assessment activities encouraging self-reflection and self-assessment on the concepts of the chapter.
• Voices from the Field features providing first-hand, in-the-trenches perspectives from counselors who have "been there and done that".
• Realistic case examples challenging readers to apply knowledge and skills to realistic cases they are likely to encounter in the field.

Included are separate chapters on:

• Relationship building
• Goal setting
• Record keeping
• The integration of theory into practice

KEY BENEFIT Provides the practical, nitty-gritty information and hands-on skills interns and practicum students need to successfully complete their clinical experiences--and proudly join the counseling profession with confidence.

KEY TOPICS Integration of theory and practice, relationship building, goal setting, record keeping, expectations and getting the most out of the supervision process, assessment and intervention, wellness and developing healthy work and personal habits, applying law and ethics in everyday practice, work with special issues and populations, self assessment

MARKET Designed primarily for interns and practicum students. A resource they can use now and take with them into their careers