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Timing and Requirements: PhD in Counselor Education & Supervision (Students Starting Prior to May 2024)

PhD in Counselor Education & Supervision (CES) Residency & Pre-Practicum Timing

 

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

Residency Required or Optional Timing

Residency

(CPLB 8800c)

Required

Complete your CES residency as soon as you begin your program; no later than within 90 days of completing your Foundations course (within the first two terms of your program).

  • Format: Orientation, seminars, and colloquia
  • The residency includes online course content integrated with a residential requirement.
    • 3 weeks online
    • 2 days face-to-face or virtual synchronous sessions
    • 1 week online
  • Focus: Socialization into Walden, introductory skills, team building, professional identity, and scholarly writing.

Pre-Practicum 1

(CPLB 802L)

Required online and

integrated synchronous

experience

 

Complete Pre-Practicum 1 after you have completed Residency 1, COUN 8001, COUN 8110, RSCH 8110, COUN 8125, COUN 8115, RSCH 8210, RSCH 8310, and COUN 8135 in order to advance in the program.

  • The pre-practicum includes online course content integrated with a residential requirement.
    • 3 weeks online
    • 4 days face-to-face or virtual synchronous sessions
    • 2 weeks online
  • Focus: Enhancing Teaching and Research Skills - Examine your professional identity as a counselor educator and develop key components of a research plan, develop skills through the practice of teaching and the acquisition of enhanced research knowledge. Topics include: roles, responsibilities, philosophy of, and best practices within teaching. You'll develop research questions, align research questions and methodologies, explore social change in research, and explore literature critique and synthesis.

Pre-Practicum 2

(CPLB 803L)

Required online and

integrated synchronous

experience

Complete Pre-Practicum 2 after you have completed Pre-Practicum 1, COUN 8203, COUN 8120, and either RSCH 8260, RSCH 8360, or RSCH 8460 in order to advance in the program.

  • The pre-practicum includes online course content integrated with a residential requirement.
    • 3 weeks online
    • 4 days face-to-face or virtual synchronous sessions
    • 2 weeks online
  • Focus: Advanced Supervision, Teaching, and Research Skills - Examine and strengthen your professional identity while gaining the teaching and supervision experiences that are required by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling & Related Educational Programs (CACREP). Enhance and demonstrate advanced teaching skills and clinical supervision both online and face-to-face environments. You'll also enhance your knowledge of research methodologies and alignment of research, and design and present a research plan to inform and develop your research skills.

Pre-Practicum Registration Timing

Submit a request to register for the pre-practicum labs.

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.

Submit Your Request to Register NO LATER Than

Expect to be Registered for Pre-Practicum (as long as seating is available)

Expect to Receive Your Event Information Email

February 4 Between January 7 and February 5 Approximately 5-7 days after your skills lab course appears in your myWalden portal.
April 23

Between April 1 and April 24

Approximately 5-7 days after your skills lab course appears in your myWalden portal.

August 9

Between July 8 and August 10 Approximately 5-7 days after your skills lab course appears in your myWalden portal.
November 11
Between October 14 and November 13 Approximately 5-7 days after your skills lab course appears in your myWalden portal.

Residency Goals

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.

Residency Learning Outcomes

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.

Pre-Practicum Learning Outcomes

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

CES Pre-Practicum 1

  1. Demonstrate contextually-appropriate professional dispositions.
  2. Demonstrate core counseling skills and techniques.
  3. Demonstrate an understanding of professional identity as a counselor.

 

CES Pre-Practicum 2

  1. Apply core counseling skills and advanced counseling techniques.
  2. Demonstrate contextually-appropriate professional dispositions.
  3. Demonstrate an understanding of professional identity as a counselor.
  4. Demonstrate group leadership skills.
  5. Develop a field experience plan.
  6. Evaluate personal counseling techniques.
  7. Analyze multi-cultural knowledge and skills.
  8. Develop credentialing skills.