1. Pre-Internship Counsellee experience Year 2 students-Orientation Update on : 5-Feb-2015 (Internship: 2016-2017)

2. Pre-internship experience

3. Pre-internship OBJECTIVES  Pre-internship provides students with opportunities to observe and participate in the counselling process as low- level operatives.  This is a chance for you to become familiarized with the counselling environment, to understand the counselling process, to develop an acute sense about the types of counsellees that frequent the different settings, and to offer rudimentary counselling.  All in all, pre-internship prepares students to enter the world of professional counselling.

4. Pre-internship AIMS  expose students to different types of counselling settings;  provide indications to the students regarding possible areas of concentration;  sensitize students to the process of counselling;  permit students to experience the power of counselling as an instrument of transformation;  allow students to obtain a fore-taste of the role of a counsellor;  identify the students’ strengths and weaknesses as counsellors;  assist students to develop their portfolios as counsellors.

5. Pre-internship Changes are in RED color STRUCTURE  Students are required to receive before 31st March of the third year in the degree programme 150 75 hours of pre-internship training. They are advised to receive this training from three TWO different agencies/ institutions, but no more than five THREE.  The variety will broaden the students’ exposure to the profession of counselling.  The remaining 75 hours will be preparation training by June of the third year in the degree.

6. Pre-internship ARRANGEMENT  A list of agencies and institutions will be provided as reference for pre-internship experience through the ILN or moodles.  Students will work out a plan detailing how they intend to fulfill their pre-internship hours at the beginning of Year 1.  This plan must be approved by the Internship Coordinator before the training starts. Any modification to the plan must also be approved by the Internship Coordinator.

7. Pre-internship REQUIREMENTS TO BE FULFILLED  Students when writing up their plan of pre-internship training should attempt to introduce variety and should not restrict their training to one type of social service.  Pre-internship training is not supervised, and therefore it is up to the individual student to show commitment to the training.  As the students progress through the programme, they should endeavour to discuss their progress with their advisors assigned at the beginning of the first year by the University.

8. Pre-internship REQUIREMENTS  Each student is required to hand in an overall evaluation (around 1500-2000 words) of their pre-internship experience to their assigned supervisors at the end of Year 3.  A clear record must be kept showing the fulfillment of the pre- internship hours. The block entries are to be signed by the agencies/institutions concerned. You should keep to yourselves the original copy.  The students should hand in the Record of Pre-internship Hours sheet before 31 March of Year 3. Those who fail to fulfill the requirement will not be allowed to start COUN 461-2 (Internship).  One group session will be led by their assigned supervisors at the end of the Year 3 to facilitate the students to round up the pre- internship experience.

9. Pre-internship FORMS  Pre-internship journal --- for your own record  Records of Pre-internship hours  Overall evaluation (around 1500-2000 words) of their pre-internship agencies-to your own supervisor (will be assigned at the end of Year 3)

10. Counsellee Experience- Objectives and aims

11. Individual Counsellee Experience OBJECTIVES  To become a proficient counsellor, it is essential to experience what is like to be a counsellee.  This will enable students to understand the sort of expectations which counsellees have for their counsellors, thus facilitating the development of empathy and acceptance.  It also provides an opportunity for the students to have reflective experience of the essential conditions that facilitate growth and promote positive outcomes in counselling.  This is a crucial element in preparing them for their professional development.

12. Group Counsellee Experience OBJECTIVES  The benefit from the group counselling process, a wider perspective and resources for the personal growth.  Enrich experience and exposure of group counselling experience before entrance into the internship.

13. Counsellee Experience AIMS  engage students in professional counselling activities;  enrich their counselling experience;  enhance their personal development by providing them with opportunities to face and resolve their personal issues;  increase their self-awareness and identify personal strengths and weaknesses;  facilitate their skills at self-reflection;  assist them in learning to keep counselling journals;  help them identify the elements of effective counselling.

14. Counsellee Experience-Structure

15. Counsellee Experience STRUCTURE  Students are required to receive before the end of third year in the degree programme 30 hours of counselling experience.  It includes  A minimum of 15 hours group counselling  A minimum of 15 hours individual counselling.

16. Counsellee Experience STRUCTURE:  For individual counselling, each student can opt to receive his/her counselling from one counsellor.  Under normal circumstances, students are restricted to receiving their counselling from no more than 2 counsellors.

17. Counsellee hours STRUCTRE:  For the group counselling, all 15 hours should be completed within the context of one or two groups.  Students are required to have a minimum of 15 hours of group counselling organized by the Counselling and Research Centre (CRC) of the University.

18. Counsellee Experience- Requirement

19. Counsellee Experience Requirement:  Students must approach their counsellors with genuine issues of concern both in group and individual counsellee hours  They must show willingness to work closely with their counsellors to achieve understanding and resolution of their personal issues.  Students are encouraged to make a recording of their sessions to facilitate their own self-reflection, but they are not required to hand in these records to the supervisors.

20. Counsellee Experience Requirement: 1. Your presenting issues How to present your issues What types of possible issues 2. Your attitudes Respectful Sincere Genuine Openness

21. Counsellee Experience Individual counsellee hours  Your frequency of the appointments  Count your time, holidays, frequency  Matching with your supervisor and his or her availability  Responsibilities  Punctuality  Cancellation

22. Counsellee Experiences Individual counsellee hours  Termination /Changing counsellors Forms to be filled by the counsellors or chopped by agencies for approval with every counsellor before your termination Don’t disappear without formal termination Comparison as a form of learning and reflection A process rather than just first impression

23. Counsellee Experience Individual counsellee hours:  Relationship with your counsellors  Transference  Counter-transference  Approaches and styles of the counsellors  Hours or sessions  15 individual sessions as minimum  50mins per session  Hourly sessions

24. Counsellee Experience Group Counsellee hours:  if the student has been absent for 2 hours (i.e. one session), they will be automatically offered "individual" follow-up sessions as replacement.  The group leader may see more than one client in the same follow-up session.

25. Group Counsellee hours Group Counsellee hours:  Students can only be allowed to make up for two missing hours in the group counselling hours.  Therefore, if each group session lasts 2 hours, they cannot miss more than one session.  If the students are absent for more than 2 group counselling hours, they need to re-enroll to another group.

26. Counsellee Experience-CRC

27. CRC-Online enrollment  The online registration and enrollment of the counselling hours for appointment are ready.  Students simply go to the CRC website, download the form, fill it out and then email to the CRC email account.

28. CRC-Opening hours  The opening hours of CRC are: Monday 2:30pm to 6:30pm Wednesday 3pm to 7pm Friday 3pm to 7 pm  You can go to the CRC during the opening hours if you have any questions in the enrollment.

29. Counsellee Experience- Assignment

30. Counsellee Experience Assignment : 1. Counselling journals --- for your own reference 2. Record of counsellee attendance---to administrative staff 3. Overall evaluation---to their supervisors (will be assigned at the end of Year 3)

31. Counsellee Experience Assignment :  Students are required to hand in an overall evaluation (around 1000-1500 words) of their individual counsellee experience to their supervisors at the end of Year 3.  Students are required to hand in an overall evaluation (around 1000-1500 words) of their group counselling experience to their supervisors (to be submitted at the end of Year 3).

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33. Changes 2016-2017 Internship structure

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