Clinical Mental Health Counseling Master of Arts
The Clinical Mental Health Counseling program is committed to educating counselors who will provide leadership in serving the mental health needs of individuals across the lifespan. This program offers an education that is holistic, reflecting an integration of mind, body and spirit. The purpose of a clinical mental health counselor’s intervention is seen as facilitating individual growth towards fulfilling one’s human potential. This program focuses on helping counselors design interventions that attend to the wide span of personal problems that emerge from handling the stresses and strains of modern life. Counselors are prepared to work in community mental health centers, private practice, social service agencies, health services organizations, businesses, and educational or pastoral settings.
Learning Outcomes for the Clinical Mental Health Program
The student will concentrate on:
- Skill Competencies: the skills necessary for engaging in the helping process. Students will demonstrate culturally appropriate skills and techniques necessary for successful pre-session, in-session, and post-session counseling behaviors.
- Case Conceptualization: skills to formulate a clear under-standing of the client’s struggle and frame a counseling plan that reflects a theoretical orientation and is respectful of the contextual nature of the client’s world view.
- Counseling Process: ability to recognize any aspect of counselor-client interaction, total or in part, that can be understood to directly or indirectly affect the counselor, the client, the direction of sessions, and movement toward the resulting outcome of counseling.
- Personal Growth: an awareness of the aspects of the student’s character that enhance work as a counselor, as well as those aspects that serve as obstacles to work as a counselor; skills to work actively to utilize strengths in addressing any personal obstacles.
Links to More Information
Application Process & Admissions
Counseling Brochure (PDF: 2pp., 298K)
Required Courses & Comprehensive Exam
Internship & Practicum Information
FAQ (coming soon)
Professional Organization Links
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