Responsibilities

Accepting a student for fieldwork is a three-step process. 

1. Review the addictions evaluation criteria. 

   •  Each student is required to strengthen the skills on the evaluation. 

   • Please be sure that your facility will be able to provide students with appropriate experience. 

2.  Complete the Purdue University Global practicum Affiliation Agreement (if there is not one already in place with the school). This will be provided by the student.

   • A practicum Affiliation Agreement must be received and approved by Purdue University Global’s Clinical Placement Team before the student is cleared to enroll in the practicum course.  Some sites have already formed affiliation agreements or an alliance partnership with Purdue University Global. If there is already an affiliation agreement in place, then there is no need to fill out another. If you are interested in pursuing an Alliance partnership with Purdue University Gobal, please contact Dawn Tesner at dtesner@purdueglobal.edu. 

   • If your facility has a standard agreement for practicum and prefers to use that agreement rather than Purdue Global’s agreement, please submit the agreement to Dawn Tesner at DTesner@purdueglobal.edu. 

   • Complete the paid addendum if the student is employed by the facility. If the student is an employee or will be paid by the facility during the rotation, the paid addendum also needs to be completed. This discloses that the student will be receiving reimbursement for hours for which he or she is also receiving educational credit. If the student will not be getting paid for their practicum hours, the paid addendum is not needed.

3. Select a supervisor for the student’s practicum. 

   •  The supervisor must have a master’s degree or higher in psychology or a behavioral health field and also be licensed at the state level to supervise students. Examples include the following: 

     • • Licensed clinical or counseling psychologist 

       • Licensed professional counselor 

       • Licensed clinical social worker 

       • Licensed substance abuse counselor 

       • Licensed psychiatrist 

       • Licensed alcohol and drug counselor 

       • Licensed substance use counselor 

   • The supervisor may be an employee of the facility where the student will be completing the rotation. 

Once a student begins practicum, the student will submit hours electronically via CORE ELMS, a document tracking system. You will receive an email to confirm or deny the hours via a link in the email with each submission of hours. Additionally, near the end of the term, the system will generate an evaluation for you to complete electronically, assessing the progress of the student.  

You may locate a copy of the evaluation criteria here so that you will know the types of skills the student would be assessed on during the rotation. The evaluation must be filled out electronically as paper copies are not accepted.