PSY 395 - Clinical-Counseling Psychology Practicum

3 Credit(s)

Students in this course gain valuable training and work experience at human service agencies, and serve as an ambassador for Widener University and for the Psychology Department at the placement site. Placements include mental-health facilities, educational intervention programs, school systems, drug and alcohol counseling programs, and other human service agencies in which students are able to exercise helping skills and put their knowledge of clinical/counseling psychology into practice. Students are required to work 75 hours per semester for three credits under the supervision of the field site supervisor at the placement site. In addition, students are required to connect their experiential learning experiences to the clinical/counseling psychology content through reflection and discussion in the seminar.
Requisite(s): Two psychology courses at or above the two-hundred level (one course must be in abnormal psychology); completion of PSY 293 with a grade of a “C” or better; a cumulative GPA of at least a 2.80 and a GPA in the psychology major of at least a 3.0; must be a junior; and complete a practicum application and all other corresponding paperwork with the psychology practicum coordinator.