Instructors:
Yousry Armanios, M.D., M.A.
E-mail:
yarmanios@hotmail.com
Phone:
614-777-1251
Course Prerequisites:
Students who wish to join this
course can be qualified after completion of Year One as well
as all courses of the first two quarters of Year Two on the
Program.
Course Description:
“Practicum III” is a continuum of “Practicum I” and
“Practicum II”. It represents the highest end of training
for the students before going into actual clinical practice.
“Practicum III” provides actual counseling supervision and
practice. It starts with 6 introductory clock hours of a
face to face, on-site didactic class with the Instructor.
Thereafter, supervision will be completed telephonically and
electronically. Passing the course requires a grade of at
least 80 out of 100% according to what is detailed below. A
reading resources list along with the Assigned Readings
shall be provided before the beginning of the course.
Course Objectives:
The goal here is to assimilate, internalize and
fine-tune all skills and learning experiences of the
previous five quarters of studying at the FMP while
integrating them to serve their counseling mission of
counseling among congregational individuals, couples and
families from all backgrounds and with all varieties of
issues and problems.
By completing this course, the student should be qualified
to be a skilled counselor who demonstrates competent
diagnostic skills and clinical sensitivity along with
positive spiritual orientation and mastery.
By the end of this course:
1. Students should be having a full sense of
professional identity.
2. Students should be familiar
with any therapeutic relationship, whether with individuals,
couples, or families.
3. Students should know how to
apply professional interviewing and counseling skills.
4. Students have gained full
self-awareness of the dynamics that control a
counselor-client relationship.
5. Students should be able to
demonstrate leadership skills in a group setting.
6. Students should acquire the
Skills shown below.
7. While maintaining Christ as
a center in counseling, students should know how to
integrate spirituality as a catalyst in their counseling
practice while preserving a level of personal sensitivity
and high ethical standards.
Course Requirements and Grading:
1. During the must-attend face to face 6 clock hours’ class
in the beginning of the course, students shall be prepared
to learn advanced clinical tools that they will need to
apply during the course as well as in their future practice.
Role playing, helpful handouts and other important forms
shall be provided during the class. The Instructor shall
also have at least one individual meeting with each student.
Failure to attend the class (Requirement Number 1) shall
mean dropping this whole course.
2. Each student must complete 10 face to face contact hours
of individual, couple and family or group counseling over
the course period. At least FIVE couple, family or group
counseling sessions are required. The student must produce a
record for each counseling session, either in the form of a
written verbatim or an audible recorded audio tape, VHS
videotape or DVD. Students must keep a copy for their
records and send the original by mail or electronically to
the Instructor in a timely manner. It is the student’s
responsibility to meet all legal and ethical requirements in
regards to confidentiality, consent for release of
information, and record keeping. For that purpose, students
may use the special forms that will be available during the
face to face, 6 clock hour’s class. Upon receiving the
recorded material of a counseling session, each student must
have one-half hour of telephonic supervision from the
Instructor. The student must set up the appointment to call
the Instructor for telephonic supervision. Other forms of
electronic supervision also apply, based upon individual
agreement with the Instructor. A written verbatim should be
concluded by the student’s clinical perception of whatever
the counseled individual might need to proceed with the case
in terms of specific referrals, therapies, follow-ups or
else. Grading shall be based on the comprehensive evaluation
of the verbatim, considering all therapeutic and case
management skills. Examples of those skills are shown below.
This requirement (Number 2) represents 60% of the final
grade.
3. By the end of this course, each student must write and
submit a 5 page paper to outline the student’s counseling
experience and what has been learned from clinical all their
interactions. This requirement (Number 3) represents 20% of
the final grade.
4. Assigned Book Reading: “To
Be Announced” Students must write and present a 5 page
critique of the book before the end of the course. This
requirement (Number 4) represents 20% of the final grade.
Client Selection and Case Presentation Guidelines and
Format:
Students shall have a wide spectrum of individuals, couples,
families or groups to undergo their counseling training
with. Couple counseling sessions can be done individually or
joined as long as there is a common issue to be addressed.
Individuals, couples, families and groups may be relatives,
friends, church members, community members …etc. It is very
important to abide by all ethical and legal requirements and
restrictions before, during, and after having any session.
It is also advisable that all students are covered by some
sort of liability insurance. All recorded material must be
safely and completely destroyed at the end of the course,
even when a student may have to repeat the same course.
Students may have more than one session with the same
individual, couple, family or group. However, it is
preferred to include people belonging to different
backgrounds or with different issues and concerns.
All written work must be
typed to a near-thesis standard as defined below:
o One inch margin top, bottom and sides
o Double-spaced
o Indent paragraphs half an inch
o Underline section headings
o Staple papers sent by mail – no paperclips, folders, or
fanfold, please
o Page numbers
o All papers sent by e-mail must include a title page as an
attachment
o Written material must reflect at least a near-Master’s
Level use of the English Language in terms of spelling,
vocabulary, and grammar.
Any written verbatim should reflect the following besides
all interactions with the client, couple, family or group:
1. Student’s Name
2. Place and Setting: (Church; Home …etc.); (Individual;
Joined; Family; Group))
3. Client(s)’ Name(s) (select assumed names, not the real
names; group name and nature)
4. Session Number (out of a total of ten sessions)
5. Presenting Concerns and Issues
6. Recommendations for further steps: A written verbatim
should be concluded by the student’s clinical perception of
whatever the counseled individual or couple might need in
order to proceed with the case in terms of specific
treatments, referrals or follow-ups.
7. Anticipated Outcomes of Counseling: How the student
believes the client will or will not respond to
interventions, treatments or referrals.
8. Evaluation of whether a session has achieved any goals
for client(s) or not
9. The students’ view of their own need to improve
counseling skills in any specific area
10. How far the spiritual element has played a role, if any,
during the session
All audio or audio-visual records should also include the
same ten points shown above have to be recorded before the
actual session starts (1-5), and after the end of the
session (6-10).
Skills to be emphasized and acquired during Course 24,
Practicum III:
1. Establishing the Therapeutic Rapport
2. Forming the Therapeutic Alliance (Relationship Building)
3. Identification of Feelings
4. Skills of Active Listening (Reflection of Feeling;
Paraphrasing; Summarizing …etc.)
5. Empathy; Respect; Genuineness
6. Concreteness and Self-Awareness
7. Fairness and Neutrality
8. Non-Judgmental Attitudes
9. Handling Self-Disclosures and Catharsis
10. Confrontation Skills
11. Case-management (Referrals; Consultation; Crisis
Situations and Emergencies …etc.)
12. Basic Group Dynamics
13. Leadership Skills
14. Integrated Spiritual Compassion
