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Social Work Field Placement for Masters Students
The SUNY Oneonta Counseling Center has openings for field work
experiences for second-year masters students in social work programs. The
field placement will provide experiential and didactic training in a
college setting. SUNY Oneonta’s smaller college setting and friendly
staff provide a supportive atmosphere with individual attention to the
student's experience. The placement will prepare professionals with
strong therapeutic skills and multicultural competency.
Field Experience Opportunities
In their placement, the student will provide the following services to
students of the college:
Counseling: Counselor’s duties include counseling, assessment
and intake, diagnosis, goal setting, planning treatment strategies, and
maintaining a case record with appropriate documentation and progress
notes. Confidentiality is to be maintained at all times including the
proper use of release of information forms.
Education and Referral: Counselors also assist students by
providing information and referral for support services available on
campus (academic, career development, disability services, clubs and
organizations) as well as therapeutic resources in the community if a
referral off-campus is appropriate. Counselors refer students
experiencing a psychiatric emergency to the Fox Crisis Center for
evaluation and intervention services. The Counseling Center collaborates
with the University Police Dept to arrange transport to the crisis
center.
Collaboration and Consultation: Counselors frequently refer
and collaborate with medical staff at the Student Health Center, which
is located in the same building. Collaboration occurs around the use of
psychotropic medication as well as conditions that require medical
evaluation or monitoring.
Outreach programs: There is also the opportunity to design and
co-present programs on selected psycho educational topics of interest
to students. The type and extent of the programs arranged will depend on
the intern’s schedule and interest.
Professional Development: Students would additionally be involved in a weekly case conference
with all staff, weekly staff meetings, and a seminar series (assessment,
diagnosis, therapy modalities, therapy techniques, professional
development etc) in addition to individual supervision with Jeanne
Keahon, LMSW, ACSW. Students would begin by working with intakes and then
developing a caseload (approximately 2-4), and work in their outreach
projects, be responsible for documentation for record keeping
(referrals, records, releases of information etc.) Students would also
present occasionally at case conference.
Supervision and Clinical Model
In addition to weekly individual supervision provided by the field
instructor, supervision is available through individual consultation as
needed between staff. Counselors also participate in a weekly staff
meeting and bi-weekly case conference meeting.
Therapeutic interventions are tailored to the needs of individual
students; there is no single therapeutic model used in counseling
students. Counselors generally offer an integrative approach, which
might include multiple theoretical orientations. Treatment strategies
are drawn from family systems, cognitive behavioral, existential, and
humanistic models.
Setting
The college is a liberal arts college with a professional focus. Student
enrollment is at 5700 and is becoming increasingly diverse. The college
draws students from downstate urban and suburban settings as well as
rural areas.
The counseling center is responsible for providing psychological
services to enrolled students. We address a broad range of presenting
problems. Many students present with developmental problems such as
adjustment to college, academic stress, relationship, peer, and family
issues. A number of students also seek therapy to address anxiety and
affective disorders, eating disorders, substance abuse disorders and
other serious mental health conditions. During the past several years
there has been a notable increase, locally and nationally, in the acuity
of mental health problems among college students. We would strive to
provide a valuable field experience with a diverse caseload appropriate
for a developing social worker.
Sessions are usually time limited (about 10 sessions), although they can
be extended at times. We also are involved in running psycho-educational
programs. We provide outreach programming to the rest of the university
community.
The center is staffed by a Director who is a licensed Psychologist, a
doctoral psychologist-in-training , two counselors who hold MSW
degrees and additional certifications, and a pre-doctoral psychology
intern. One of the counselors specializes in alcohol and other drug
treatment and has CASAC certification.
For more information contact:
Jeanne Keahon, LMSW, ACSW
Counseling Center
SUNY Oneonta
Oneonta, NY 13820-4015
607-436-3368
KeahonJM@oneonta.edu
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