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

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 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.