Supervision Internship – COUC 980

CG • Section 16WK • 11/10/2019 to 04/18/2020 • Modified 09/05/2023

Course Description

The doctoral internship is designed to provide students with supervised experiences that reflect the activities of a regularly employed professional in the field of counselor education. All doctoral interns must have internship experiences in supervision, teaching, and one additional doctoral competency (counseling, research, or leadership/advocacy). Under the guidance of faculty and supervisors, the primary focus of the supervision internship is to help doctoral students develop the knowledge, skills, and dispositions required for ethical and competent practice as supervisors in the field of counseling and counselor education.

For information regarding prerequisites for this course, please refer to the Academic Course Catalog.

Rationale

The doctoral internship experience is considered one of the capstone events in the doctoral students’ program of study. In this course, students gain supervised experience in the supervision activities of a regularly employed professional in the field of counselor education. Under the mentorship of faculty and supervisors, students will continue to develop the personal qualities, characteristics, and behaviors of a supervisor as they transition from “Doctoral Student” to “Counselor Educator.” As future faculty and supervisors, students will participate in the activities required of faculty providing supervision of entry-level counseling practicum students. To ensure that the internship provides students with a well-rounded experience, students will have supervision experiences in both individual and group supervision. Particular attention is given to students’ professional growth and development during this supervised internship experiences.

Method of Instruction: This semester-long course is delivered using a digital synchronous format. Students attend 1.5 hours of weekly digital synchronous faculty group supervision over the duration of this course.

Course Assignment

Course Requirements Checklist

After reading the Course Syllabus and Student Expectations, the candidate will complete the related checklist found in the Course Overview.

Advising Acknowledgement Quiz

Hours

The student will complete 200 total hours in activities associated with providing supervision of master’s practicum students or post-graduate clinicians earning hours towards licensure. To conceptualize hours, it is equivalent to supervising practicum students in a 17 week practicum course. The requirements for completion of the supervision internship will be documented in the Supervision Internship Agreement Form.

During the Internship, the student will also meet every week for 1.5 hours for group supervision with his/her faculty supervisor. The student must also obtain one hour per week of individual and/or triadic supervision throughout the Internship with his/her approved classroom Site Supervisor. Supervision Internship Supervisors must hold a doctoral degree in Counselor Education or related profession with equivalent qualifications. Supervising teachers at a non-Liberty site must have a doctoral degree in Counselor Education.

Supervision Informed Consent (Professional Disclosure) Assignment

The student will submit his/her Supervision Informed Consent (Professional Disclosure) Form to the Faculty Supervisor for review. Once approved, the intern will provide each supervisee with a copy. Consent for individual supervision will be documented through Canvas. However, because the student is a co-instructor in the practicum course, he/she does not need an informed consent to conduct group supervision (CLO: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H).

Presentation Self-Evaluation: Individual Supervision Assignment

The student will use the Oral Case Presentation Format for Individual Supervision to plan for the supervision session that will be recorded. The student will identify the supervisee background information, supervision history, goals, summary of the session, ethical and multicultural considerations, and areas for feedback. Note: This assignment will be conducted in conjunction with the Video Presentation and Video Critique form (CLO: A, B, C, D, E, F, G). 

Benchmark Presentation Self-Evaluation: Group Supervision Assignment

The student will use the Self-Evaluation: Group Session Template to reflect on the session. Note: This assignment will be done in conjunction with the Video Presentation, which includes the Oral Case Presentation and Video Critique forms (CLO: A, B, C, D, E, F, G). 

Video Presentation: Individual Supervision Assignment

The student will examine his/her effectiveness in his/her individual and group supervision sessions. The student will use the provided Oral Case Presentation and Video Critique Templates to evaluate his/her supervision. The student must address each question in the associated templates (CLO: A, B, C, D, E, F, G).

Benchmark Video Presentation: Group Supervision Assignment

The student will examine his/her effectiveness in his/her individual and group supervision sessions. The student will use the provided Oral Case Presentation and Video Critique Templates to evaluate his/her supervision. The student must address each question in the associated templates (CLO: A, B, C, D, E, F, G).

Quiz: Liability Insurance Verification

The student must submit a copy of liability insurance in order to prove that he/she has maintained liability insurance throughout the Practicum and the three Internship courses. No student may begin or remain in practicum or an internship without appropriate liability insurance.

Quiz: Presentation Development Progress (9)

The purpose of these quizzes is to ensure the student reports acknowledgement of weekly progress on the Teaching Presentation Lesson Plan Assignment and Video Presentation Assignment through 1 true/false question on the quiz. There are 9 quizzes throughout the course.

Quiz: Intern Evaluation of Their Site and Supervisor

As stakeholders, students have an important role in evaluating the effectiveness of their internship experience. Specifically, the intern can provide valuable feedback on the quality and effectiveness of his/her supervision sites (i.e. course setting) and the faculty site supervisor. This allows the program to assess and improve these internship opportunities for the future. Therefore, the intern is asked to fill out an evaluation of the faculty supervisor and supervision site at the end of his/her Supervision Internship (CLO: B).

Quiz: Student Evaluation of the Supervision Intern

The intern must provide his/her master’s students with the opportunity to fill out the Evaluation of the Supervision Intern Template at the end of the Supervision Internship. For this course, use the Student Evaluation of the Supervision Intern Template. The student intern will provide each master's level student with the form well in advance of the submission due date. The student intern will collect the completed evaluations in one file and upload the document to the quiz. Please coordinate the distribution of the forms with the faculty site supervisor (CLO: B).

Quiz: Intern Self-Evaluation of Supervision

The intern must complete a self-evaluation at the end of his/her Supervision Internship. There are two parts of this assignment. In the first part, the student will download the Quiz: Intern Self-Evaluation Supervision Template and rate him/herself across a range of activities completed for the doctoral supervision internship experience. Once the student have completed this portion of the evaluation, he/she will fill in the total score, average score, and the total number of each Likert score selected information. In addition, the student will respond to two essay questions in the quiz (CLO: B, C).

Quiz: Supervisor Final Evaluation

The student must obtain a final evaluation from the faculty site supervisor at the end of the Teaching Internship and Supervision Internship. Please provide the Quiz: Supervisor Final Evaluation of Supervision Template to the supervisor well in advance of the submission due date. The student will upload a completed evaluation in the quiz (CLO: B, D, E, F, G).

The purpose of of this assignment is to provide documentation that the student has completed  the 200 hours required to complete the teaching internship.  This assignment requires a weekly summary of hours. However, the student is not required to submit daily logs. 

Quiz: Dispositions Reflection

This quiz will allow students to reflect on the 9 dispositions required for the program.