Welcome! Second-year masters’ students in the Applied Clinical Psychology program at Penn State Harrisburg are required to take a Career Counseling class to conceptualize how the world of work and mental health influence one another. To reach this goal, students worked in pairs alongside a community or campus-based organization to identify a career-related need the organization had when working with their clients/participants. Our students, now in at least their second year of conducting psychotherapy, created and delivered interventions that the organizations could use with their clients/participants on a regular basis.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and move to online coursework halfway through the semester, students completed their projects on time and adjusted accordingly to deliver excellent, empirically-supported and theoretically-sound interventions. Each blog post summarizes their work in the style of Jackson, Regis, and Bennett’s (2019) “Career Development Interventions for Social Justice.”
This work exemplifies our students’ abilities to combine consultation, career theories and interventions, psychotherapy, and social justice concepts into one project. I am very proud to showcase their work.
-Stephanie Winkeljohn Black, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology