Graduate level academic course work that provides an opportunity for the student to perform all the activities that a regularly employed staff member in the setting would be expected to perform. The internship must be taken through a regionally accredited institution for a total of six hundred (600) clock hours. A minimum of two hundred and forty (240) clock hours must be direct service work with clients. At least 80% of the direct service work with clients in the internship must be in counseling sessions with clients. Assessment activities with clients may not account for more than 20% of the direct services in the internship. A minimum of one (1) clock hours per week must be of individual supervision by program faculty, and a minimum of one and one-half (11/2) clock hours per week must be group supervision.
Ala. Admin. Code r. 255-X-2-.21
Author: Alabama Board of Examiners in Counseling
Statutory Authority:Code of Ala. 1975, § 34-8 A-5.