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Clinical Mental Health | M.S.

student at Hammes LibraryM.S. in Education (Clinical Mental Health)

The Clinical Mental Health track of the M.S. in Counseling and Human Services consists of 60 credit hours of graduate study. Students fulfill requirements in both the common counseling core of the curriculum as well as courses specific to the clinical mental health specialty. The program follows a cohort model wherein students are admitted and take courses with an identified group of their peers. The program can be completed in a minimum of three years of full-time study, which includes summer classes.


Degree Requirements (60 cr.)
First Year Courses
  • EDUC-G 500 Orientation to Counseling
  • EDUC-G 506 Personality Development: Growth of Normal and Deviant Styles
  • EDUC-G 522 Counseling Techniques
  • EDUC-G 523 Laboratory Counseling and Guidance
  • EDUC-G 575 Multicultural Counseling
  • EDUC-P 514 Life Span Development: Birth-Death

Second Year Courses
  • EDUC-G 505 Individual Appraisal: Principles and Procedures
  • EDUC-G 524 Practicum in Counseling
  • EDUC-G 532 Introduction to Group Counseling
  • EDUC-G 563 Mental Health Counseling
  • EDUC-G 567 Marriage and Family Counseling
  • EDUC-G 592 Seminar in Drug and Alcohol Abuse Prevention

Third Year Courses
  • EDUC-G 507 Lifestyle and Career Development
  • EDUC-G 525 Advanced Counseling Practicum   
  • EDUC-G 550 Internship in Counseling (fall and spring semesters)
  • EDUC-G 585 Contemporary Issues in Counseling
  • EDUC-G 590 Research in Counseling and Guidance

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