CACREP 2024 Practicum & Internship Hour Requirements: Direct vs. Indirect Explained
The single most common way clinical hour records go wrong is blurring direct and indirect service. Here's what each one means under the 2024 CACREP Standards — and how to track them so the totals hold up.
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Weekly Supervision Requirements Under CACREP: Group vs. Individual Explained
Supervision is a weekly, ongoing CACREP requirement — and the one that fails most quietly. Here's the difference between individual and group supervision, what the standards expect, and how to track it before a student falls behind.
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Designing a Clinical Readiness Assessment for Your Counseling Program
A readiness checklist confirms a student is cleared. A Clinical Readiness Assessment confirms they're actually prepared. Here's how to design one — and track the pass/fail decision and remediation that follow.
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Clinical Readiness Checklists for CMHC Programs: What to Verify Before Students Enter the Field
Before a single client is seen, every student has to be cleared for the field. Here's the readiness checklist counseling programs actually need — and how to run it without chasing paperwork.
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Electronic Signatures and the Clinical-Record Audit Trail
An hour log without a signature is a claim. A signed, date-stamped log is a record. Here's what electronic signatures actually need to do in a counseling program — and why the audit trail behind them is the real asset.
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Running Clinical Training for a Fully Online CMHC Program
When your students are placed across a dozen states and you'll never walk down the hall to a site, clinical training becomes a coordination problem. Here's how fully online CMHC programs keep hours, supervision, and compliance under control.
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Tracking Professional Dispositions in Counseling Programs
Dispositions are the part of a counselor's development that's hardest to measure and most important to document. Here's how to track them fairly, consistently, and defensibly — from admission through graduation.
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