Academic Catalog 2024-25

AT 5350 Practicum I

'Practicum is a 700-hour nonresident, supervised clinical fieldwork experience, which provides the student with an opportunity to work with clients in an institutional or community setting within the licensing organizations’ scope of practice. Students are able to work with clients onhealth promotion and illness prevention while integrating ethical and legal practices under the supervision of a licensed professional. Course content covers counseling processes, psychotherapeutic techniques, and standards of practice used by marriage and family therapists, professional counselors, and art psychotherapists in a culturally diverse society. The supervised practicum is in applied psychotherapeutic techniques, art therapy and psychological assessment, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. Art therapy techniques are applied in a variety of settings with a variety of dysfunctional and healthy-functioning relationship types, which include premarital, couple, family, and child relationships. Prerequisite: Completion of all prerequisites in art and psychology, 30 hours of fieldwork, and 15 semester units of graduate course work, including ATM 5255 and ATM 5260. Corequisite: ATM 5365.'

Credits

3.00 units

Cross Listed Courses

AT 5355, AT 5356