Journal 8

Complete the Hours Log in Supervision Assist and make sure your site supervisor signs off on your hours.  Mention in your journal your cumulative hours to date including direct and indirect.  Complete a 1–3 page journal detailing your experiences and developmental process as a professional counselor at your practicum site.  Although the journal will include personal insights and experiences, you need to also demonstrate academic rigor with APA format and use a minimum of two references from peer-reviewed journal articles (published within the last 5-10 years), textbooks (e.g. Erford text), etc. In other words, use academic and professional resources to inform your developmental process and to help you demonstrate growth in the following areas (choose minimum of 2-3 of the following content areas) towards: 

• Application of counseling skills
• Your primary counseling theory utilized
• Case conceptualization and performance
• Record-keeping and documentation skills
• Treatment planning, development of measurable outcomes for clients
• Goal consensus and collaborative decision-making
• Advocating for your clients
• Advocating for the profession
• Caseload management and the referral process
• Multicultural competency
• Role and responsibilities of a Clinical Mental Health Counselor and interprofessional team regarding collaboration and consultation, community outreach and emergency response management
• Insights from supervision
• Evidence-based techniques
• Addressing ethical issues
• Self-care, self-awareness and self-evaluation strategies for ethical and effective practice
• Influence of technology at your counseling site and in the profession
• Evidence-based practices with clients

Provide examples from your work experience with clients on site, but don't use real names or other identifying information.  

Please pick different topics to discuss than what has been discussed in previous journals.