Your Supervised Practicum and Internship: Field Resources for Turning Theory Into Action

Your Supervised Practicum and Internship is a complete, up-to-date guide to everything a graduate student in the helping professions needs for a successful practicum, internship, or field experience.

This helpful resource takes students through the necessary fundamentals of field experience, helping them understand the supervision process and their place in it. The authors fully prepare students for more advanced or challenging scenarios they are likely to face as helping professionals. The new edition also interweaves both CACREP and NASW standards, and incorporates changes brought by the DSM-5. Its unique focus is on neurocounseling and how bridging brain and behavior assists counselors in becoming more efficacious in treatment selections for talk therapy. Your Supervised Practicum and Internship takes the practical and holistic approach that students need to understand what really goes on in agencies and schools, providing evidence-based advice and solutions for the many challenges field experience presents.

Lori A. Russell-Chapin, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Education, Counseling and Leadership at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. She is also codirector for the Center for Collaborative Brain Research (CCBR), a partnership among OSF Saint Francis Medical Center and the Illinois Neurological Institute, and is the recipient of the American Counseling Association’s Trailblazer Award for her work on neurocounseling. She is also an ACA fellow.

Nancy E. Sherman, PhD, is an emeritus professor in the Department of Education, Counseling and Leadership at Bradley University. She is a four-time Fulbright scholar and past president of International Chi Sigma Iota.

Theodore J. Chapin, PhD, is the president of Resource Management Services, Chapin & Russell Associates, and The Neurotherapy Institute of Central Illinois.

Allen E. Ivey, PhD, is Distinguished University Professor (emeritus) at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and president of Microtraining Associates, an educational publishing firm. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology, past president and fellow of the Society of Counseling Psychology of the American Psychological Association, and an elected fellow of the American Counseling Association, Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, and the Asian American Psychological Association.