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Arizona Practicum Project
Purpose
This Project will provide continuing education opportunities that enable each trainee to further develop their skills and techniques, and philosophical orientations of rehabilitation counseling. Rehabilitation Counselors will increase their focus on: personal counseling dynamics; vocational counseling methods; assessment techniques; transferable skills; market skills analysis, and preparing consumers to make good employment and rehabilitation decisions. This project will require support from AZRSA and RCEP IX to insure statewide participation.
Objectives
- To provide active learning opportunities that enable each trainee to further develop their skills, techniques and philosophical orientations of rehabilitation counseling;
- To have trainees demonstrate a commitment to sustained personal growth and development through interpersonal interaction, reflective inquiry and introspection;
- To develop an expanded knowledge base about individual behavior;
- To insure the importance of consumer involvement, empowerment, and autonomy;
- To describe a counseling model that focuses on successful outcomes is needed that incorporates a counselor-consumer dynamic of shared involvement, power, and commitment of the goals of rehabilitation.
Overview of Activities
On-line training
- Participate in on-line discussion, live interactive video sessions, role playing, and demonstrations by the instructor, other experts, and co-trainees on a variety of theories and techniques during the practicum experience;
- Present role playing scenarios in video-conference dyads on the application of counseling / communication skills.
Trainees will be instructed through distance technology for a period of two to three months. Each of the four RCEP trainers will conduct discussion boards with their small groups. DBs will address counseling experiences and provide group interaction. On two occasions, each trainer will connect via video conference technology to conduct training.
Individual training
- Provide constructive feedback using a formal rating system, including reflective analysis of applied rehabilitation counseling and communication skills;
- Discuss appropriate ethical behaviors as contextually-related to client interventions;
- Create experiences that demonstrate client centered solution building thinking, techniques and behavior;
- Examine and discuss counselor values, beliefs, biases, and stereotypes related to disability, cultural diversity, gender differences, aging, and economic disparity and their relevance to the counseling relationship;
Assignments
Each student will tape at least two sessions with a client in a rehabilitation setting. A copy of the tape should be sent to the instructor and readied for training activity on the days assigned and shown to the group. The first tape should focus on an assessment of individual needs; the second on development/monitoring of a plan of action.
Providing experiences that demonstrate client focused individual and group problem solving techniques/behaviors; further develop communication/relationship skills; continue to expand one's knowledge of case management skills in the rehabilitation process; and encourage sustained development of self and increased awareness of the social psychology of groups.
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