The Internship, Practicum, and Field Placement Handbook: A Guide for the Helping Professions

This book provides a very comprehensive overview about what to expect during an intership. Great quality!

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Baird cuts to the chase. The overwhelming issues facing interns and professionals in psychology and the helping professionsis are presented in a neat, crisp, easy to navigate form. Wwith a light heart, he blends the old standards with new healing models. He has done the work. I will use this many times in the life of my career.

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.

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.