practicum
a trusted, student-centered learning experience
Journey Bound is building a trusting and reliable student-centered experience, for high schoolers and master's students alike.
We strive to create a learning space where people challenge the status quo of traditional care systems. As a dedicated training center offering specialized therapy programming, we provide hands-on opportunities for students of all walks to engage with therapeutic adventure, play and creative expression.
As a practicum student, you may have a lot of excitement and apprehension about embarking on this part of your educational journey. After all, in a world full of acronyms and evergrowing gold standard models, how can a therapist not feel that imposter syndrome from time to time? If you're not expected to know "everything" that the veteran therapist down the hall does, why is your supervision treated the same way? Don't you need something different?
Not your average practicum.
Practicum students play an integral part in operations at many mental health organizations, including ours. While practicum students may be expected to deliver the same sort of services as licensed therapists, a practicum student's role within the organization is fundamentally different. You are a student-practitioner, and your learning trumps profit margins. Unfortunately, many sites succumb to the pressure applied by the mental health industrial complex to buffer their bottom line using practicum students as they would paid employees, with the addition of those pesky end-of-quarter evaluations and a site visit or two. At Journey Bound, we don't see it that way.
We view practicum as a true partnership between a practicing organization and educational program. Often times, we're making a multi-year commitment to support your development. This is our responsibility to you:
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Built-in supervision and training schedule, providing a reliable safegaurd for student-practitioners
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Dedication that can be counted on through scaffolded learning protocols
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Specialty-designed infrastructure, where opportunities to apply learning is possible and supported
We believe you bring something valuable to the table too, and we welcome you to the table. In fact, our student-practitioners have a profound hand in shaping our youth program, where you learn and grow alongside the higher schoolers you're working with. During your generalist year, you explore a myriad of practice elements on micro, mezzo and macro levels, and get applied learning in an adventure therapy context supporting operations. You build from this foundation of understanding to develop specialized programming under the mentorship of a seasoned social worker during your advanced year, creating a truly rewarding experience.
A place made for you, by you.
Journey Bound's practicum program is built around the pedagogy imperative to doing therapy well. The framework has been purposely, painstakingly and lovingly created with you, the emerging professional, in mind. Within this constructive cradle is room to experiment, play and grow. In reaching for your own personal horizon, you expand ours. It is because of you that our program transforms into something truly special. My sincerest hope is that your practicum experience becomes the secure base for the work you will do throughout your career.