The MA in counseling Counseling program is a 60 semester hour, CACREP accredited Clinical Mental Health Counseling program. The curriculum meets educational requirements for professional licensure in accordance with the regulations of the Virginia Board of Behavioral Sciences.
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To graduate, the student will have met all course requirements with a minimum GPA of 3.00, will have obtained satisfactory internship references, met program assessment criteria for competency, and obtained the formal approval of the faculty for graduation.
Curriculum Details
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(60 SH)
Full-time students should be able to complete the program in two years (the equivalent of five semesters of full time study)
- COUN 507 Professional Identity, Function
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- and Ethics (3 SH)
- COUN 508 Counseling Techniques (3 SH)
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- 509 Supervision and Consultation (3 SH)
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- 517 Human Growth and Development (3 SH)
- COUN 518 Integrated Counseling Process (3 SH)
- COUN 527 Psychopathology (3 SH)
- COUN 528 Practicum (
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- 100 hours field work) (3SH)
- COUN 530 Advanced Psychopathology (2 SH)
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- 536 Foundations in Research & Program Evaluation: Theory, Design and Foundational Statistics (3 SH)
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- 547 Counseling
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- Theories (
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- 3 SH)
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Elective Courses (1 SH) 5 weeks (choose one)
- COUN 698 Mindfulness and Psychotherapy
- COUN 699 Sec A Topics: Sexual Health
- COUN 687 Expressive Arts
- COUN 699 Sec B Topics: Psychoanalysis
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- 557 Assessment
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- and Evaluation Procedures (3 SH)
- COUN 567 Group Counseling (3SH)
- COUN 587 Crisis Counseling (2 SH)
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- 607 Multicultural Counseling (3 SH)
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- 610 Advanced Multicultural Counseling (
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- 2 SH)
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- 617 Counseling Children and Adolescents (10 weeks) (2 SH)
- COUN 627 Marriage
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- and Family Counseling (3 SH)
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- 637 Career Development (3 SH)
- COUN 689 Internship
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- I (2 semesters totaling 600 total hours of field work) (3 SH)
- COUN 690 Internship II (3 SH)
- COUN 697 Addictions Counseling (3 SH)
- Elective Courses (choose one)
- COUN 687 Expressive Arts (1 SH)
- COUN 698 Mindfulness and Psychotherapy (1 SH)
- COUN 699 Sec A Topics: Sexual Health (1 SH)
- COUN 699 Sec B Topics: Psychoanalysis (1 SH)
Co/prerequisites
- Counseling Techniques, Theories, PIFE - prerequisite for Practicum
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- Techniques - prerequisite for Integrated Counseling Process
- CRPE during last two semesters
- Admission to Internship - prerequisite for Internship Practicum and Integrated Counseling Process are
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- corequisites
*Students on a three year or longer plan are required to register for a 1 SH Skill Development course in the year that they are not in practicum or internship. This will increase the credits required for graduation to 61 SH.