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Personal and Professional Growth Activities
campus, seminars to assess and facilitate interpersonal skills, and a preprac ticum course where the students begin their initial experience in the professional helping role. During the second year all students participate in group didactic therapy. As group members, students personally experience some of the growth producing aspects of group counseling. In addition to group therapy, students begin their formal practicums during the second year. Students are placed in such professional facilities as outpatient clinics, hospitals, college counseling centers, public schools, and community health organizations on the basis of their individual readiness, needs, and interests. These practicum experiences are individually supervised by either Rosemead's full-time faculty or qualified professionals working in the practicum agency. During the third year most students begin their individual didactic therapy. This therapy is designed to give the student first hand experience in the role of a client and is considered an opportunity for both personal growth and for the learning of therapeutic principles and techniques. Between 50 and 200 hours of individual didactic are required. Such issues as timing, choice of therapist, and specific goals are determined by the student in conjunction with his ad visor and the Professional Training Committee. When a student reaches his fourth year most of his time is spent in indepen dent study, electives, and practicum experiences. The step-by-step progression in professional training experiences gives the student personal experiences with a wide range of personalities in both church-related and secular in stitutions. It is intended to provide the necessary experience and preparation to serve as a basis for a full-time internship during the fifth year of doctoral study. The internship is planned as an intensive clinical experience where the stu dent may integrate the varied elements of his preparation in Counseling Psychology into a congruent professional role. For most students the primary internship objective is experience and supervision in ongoing counseling and psychotherapeutic procedures. All internships must be faculty approved in order to insure a high level of professional growth experience for the student. Listed below are off-campus professional agencies where Rosemead students have recently received supervised clinical experience in practica and internships. Placement in these agencies is made under the Coordinator of Practicum. In addition to these agencies, all students also receive professional experience in Rosemead's on-campus counseling center. Practicum assign ments are in accord with the student developmental needs and interests. Internships are obtained by the student consonant with the Internship Guidelines of the school.
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