PhD in Counselor Education & Supervision (CES) students that started the program May 2024 and after.

Submit a request to register for the residency or intensive.

SUBMIT THIS REGISTRATION REQUEST FORM ONLY ONCE!

IMPORTANT:

• Seating is limited in each term and eligible students are registered in order based on the date requested.
• Registration is NOT guaranteed if:
  • Seating fills to capacity prior to the registration deadline below.
  • You submit a request to register after the registration deadline below.

Walden residencies are designed to prepare you for your doctoral journey and contribute to your academic and professional success by focusing on research, scholarship, and counselor education skills such as teaching and supervision.

Key goals of the Walden doctoral residency experience include:

• Reflecting on academic direction and what it means to be a doctoral student and a scholar-practitioner.
• Effectively engaging students within their academic and professional disciplines.
• Receiving a variety of technical, Student Success Advising, and faculty advising support services using a complementary combination of face-to-face and virtual best practices.
• Using skills required for professional competence.
• Building self-efficacy to conceptualize, design, and carry out scholarly research to solve problems related to professional practice that contributes to positive social change.
• Rendering research and project study findings meaningful to multiple audiences.
• Building relationships and networks (i.e. faculty, staff, and students) that foster academic and professional success.
• Engaging faculty and students in peer review and scholarly discourse that reflects critical thinking.
• Students and faculty to model appropriate professional behavior used in scholarly discourse.
• Ensuring that students understand the differences in program models and their requirements to determine the most appropriate academic fit.

The following are key learning outcomes you will be expected to achieve as part of your residency experience:

1. Use critical-thinking skills expected of doctoral students.
2. Engage faculty and peers in discourse that contributes to the collective advancement of scholarship in their discipline.
3. Use university support services to contribute to the successful completion of the dissertation and doctoral degree.
4. Analyze research ideas through engagement with faculty members and student colleagues to formulate appropriate research questions to be pursued in the doctoral dissertation.
5. Conceptualize, design, and execute dissertation research studies that reflect doctoral-level thinking and have the potential to contribute to positive social change.
6. Articulate and demonstrate competency in professional practice skills required by student’s discipline.
7. Identify strategies for continued professional development as scholar-practitioners.
8. Develop collaborative relationships with program faculty in research and supervision.

The following are key learning outcomes you will be expected to achieve as part of your intensive experiences at each level:

CES Intensive 1

1.  Apply teaching skills and clinical supervision techniques.  
2. Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of teaching and supervision techniques.  
3. Demonstrate effective communication and collaboration with program faculty and master's level counselors in-training.  
4. Apply ethical principles, professional standards, and best practices involved in counseling and supervision.

CES Intensive 2

1.  Evaluate professional identity as a counselor educator and supervisor 
2. Apply advanced teaching skills and clinical supervision techniques.  
3. Design and present a research proposal.  
4. Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of teaching and supervision techniques.  
5. Apply ethical principles, professional standards, and best practices in counseling, supervision, and research 
6. Demonstrate knowledge and skills in the five domains of counseling, teaching, supervision, research, and professional leadership and advocacy through a comprehensive assessment.