Share Paper: Online Supervision of School Counseling Interns: Using Technology to Connect with Graduate Student Interns

  1. David Dietrich, The University of Tennessee at Martin, United States
Wednesday, October 10 3:05-3:25 PM Salon Hemon

Abstract: This Best Practices session described the issues involved in supervising graduate interns in an online school counseling Masters program. A challenge for the online university instructor is to provide opportunities for counseling students to both collaborate with fellow students and the university supervisor. Unlike in a face-to-face program in which the students intern in close proximity to the degree granting university, online programs often have students hundreds of miles away. In this case it is impossible for the university instructor to observe the intern onsite or to meet the onsite supervisor. The presenter explained and demonstrated the use of Discussion ...