Christine GrotheJun 2, 2023
Waiting for my counseling license paperwork to be processed, so back to having time to birdwatch. #birdwaching #hummingbird #hummingbirdsofmastodon #counseling #photographyfun
Show threadMichael Reeder LCPCJun 2, 2023

Cool feeder.

I've often wondered how many professions have a built-in forced period of unemployment right after graduation like we do?

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Show threadChristine GrotheJun 2, 2023
@admin this is a great question. I wondered the same thing yesterday as I thought about our entire class waiting for a license. What if I didn't have another income from my partner?
Show threadMichael Reeder LCPCJun 2, 2023

I see it as weak professional associations. There have to be ways of protecting the public (licensure) versus not bankrupting new graduates.

Several years ago many schools were allowed to have students sit for the licensing exam during their final semester in order to close the gap. I think it might have been CACREP schools only (I saw it as part of campaign to delegitimize non-CACREP schools).

Lawyers have this issue -- but they can get well paid paralegal jobs while they study for the Bar.

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Show threadChristine GrotheJun 2, 2023
@admin you raise important issues. My situation is my school is in the final process of being CACREP accredited so we are the second class who needs the CCE to evaluate. Though it seems odd that if the class before me passed these evaluations, why do we each need to do this again AND at a cost of 150 each. We took the NCE in our final semester as well. It's this CCE process that is taking forever because it's all done through mail. I do feel there should have been more transparency from the school at the beginning so we knew what it meant.
Show threadMichael Reeder LCPC

It does seem to be a general rule of graduate-level education that no "real world" lessons and expectations are set. The other place I see this is in the "find your own internship site" attitude of lots of schools -- or at best they assign it to a junior faculty member who already has full-time duties elsewhere.

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Show threadChristine GrotheJun 3, 2023
@admin I am also a graduate of "find your own internship" and it was terrifying but it did work out thankfully.
Show threadMichael Reeder LCPCJun 3, 2023

Same. I guess they see it as a rite of passage or proof of worthiness or something.

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