Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling

Professional Counseling Orientation and Ethics
Prereq: Admission to the MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program.  Freq: Fall.
Provides an orientation to professional counseling, ethical standards, and wellness model. Explores the role of advocacy and social justice in the counseling field, and includes orientation to reflective counseling practice.

Counseling Skills and Strategies
Prereq: Admission to the MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program.  Freq: Fall.
Provides an in-depth orientation to skills and strategies of intervention used in professional counseling settings. Offers students the opportunity to practice and apply skills in triads with peers. Utilizes assignments to develop competencies in counseling practice.

Counseling Theories
Prereq: Admission to the MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program.  Freq: Fall.
Provides an introduction to the major, systematic approaches to clinical mental health counseling. Examines theoretical case conceptualization and interventions, psychotherapy research and integration.

Group Counseling
Prereq: Admission to the MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program.  Freq: Fall.
Provides an in-depth orientation to group counseling leadership skills and strategies for management of group counseling. Offers students an opportunity to experience being a group member while simultaneously developing knowledge in group theories and group leadership skills.

Lifespan Development in Counseling
Prereq: Admission to the MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program.  Freq: Fall.
Provides an introduction to human growth and development across the lifespan. Examines influences on multiple domains of human development and implications for professional counseling practice.  

Social and Cultural Foundations of Counseling
Prereq: Admission to the MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program.  Freq: Spring.
Provides an introduction to social, cultural, and diversity issues in professional counseling. Examines multiculturally competent professional counseling practice, counselor cultural self-awareness, the socially and culturally diverse society in which professional counselors work and roles of professional counselors to promote social justice and advocacy.   

Assessment Procedures in Counseling
Prereq: Admission to the MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program.  Freq: Summer.
Introduces assessment procedures in professional counseling. Focuses on different domains and procedures of assessment, psychometrics, test scores, integration of assessment results in counseling, and ethical use of assessment procedures.

Research and Evaluation in Counseling
Prereq: Admission to the MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program.  Freq: Fall.
Introduces research and evaluation in professional counseling. Presents the types of research designs, basic statistics, research implementation, research report development, and publication of research information relevant to clinical mental health counseling.

Foundations of Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Prereq: Admission to the MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program.  Freq: Spring.
Provides an orientation to clinical mental health counseling, roles of clinical mental health counselors in employment settings, and functions of counselors in professional counseling settings. Introduces crisis intervention models and the role of advocacy and social justice in the field.

Abnormal Behavior and Psychopathology
Prereq: Admission to the MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program.  Freq: Spring.
Provides an overview of abnormal behavior and psychopathology consistent with the current DSM manual. Offers a framework to consider pathology in the context of the counseling profession, including the wellness model, strengths-based assessments, and trauma-informed care.

Diagnosis and Treatment Planning
Prereq: Admission to the MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program; and CMHC 742 or concurrently.  Freq: Spring.
Examines diagnostic assessment and treatment planning consistent with the current DSM manual utilizing evidence-based assessment and diagnosis procedures to develop diagnosis skills. Addresses diagnosis, treatment planning, and policy/advocacy issues associated tihe various disorders.

Crisis and Trauma Counseling
Prereq: Admission to the MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program and CMHC 740.  Freq: Summer.
Focuses on both theory and skill development of crisis and trauma counseling across the lifespan in a range of settings.

Addictions Counseling
Prereq: Admission to the MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program; and CMHC 740 or concurrently.  Freq: Spring.
Explores addictions theories and counseling for individuals with substance use disorders including assessment measures, treatment approaches, theory of addiction, and implications for substance use as a comorbid condition.

Family and Couples Counseling
Prereq: Admission to the MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program.  Freq: Fall.
Examines major systemic theories and issues of family and couples counseling within a multicultural society. Explores issues, assessment and treatment of dysfunctional partner, marital, family, and system relationships.

Counseling for Work and Career
Prereq: Admission to the MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program.  Freq: Spring.
Applies career development theories, research, assessments, interventions, and information resources to meet the educational and work needs, planning, and decision-making of clients across the lifespan.  

Advanced Counseling for Work and Career
Prereq: Admission to the MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program; and CMHC 758.  Freq: Occasionally.
Examines implications of research, underlying assumptions of techniques and theories, multicultural considerations, and changing nature of the world of work for professional counseling practice related to work and career.

Supervision and Consultation
Prereq: Admission to the MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program; and CMHC 740.  Freq: Occasionally.
Offers an in-depth review of management, administration, supervision, and consultation roles of mental health counselors. Includes an opportunity to interview supervisors in the field of clinical mental health counseling.

Advanced Crisis and Trauma Counseling
Prereq: Admission to the MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program; CMHC 752; and concurrent registration in CMHC 794 or 795 or 796.  Freq: Occasionally.
Provides an in-depth review of trauma theories, evidence-based outcomes measures, and trauma-specific treatment models utilized by mental health counselors. Includes research projects regarding trauma, specific populations, and treatment practices.

Clinical Health Counseling I
Prereq: Admission to the MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program.  Freq: Occasionally.
Introduces clinical health counseling. Examines factors that influence wellness and illness, health and wellness promotion, treatment of health problems, and roles of clinical mental health counselors in providing related services.

Clinical Health Counseling II
Prereq: Admission to the MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program, and CMHC 773.  Freq: Occasionally.
Covers advanced treatment of clinical health counseling. Examines health behavior change techniques, treatment of health conditions, role of behavioral health professionals in primary care settings, ethical and legal issues, social and cultural contexts of health, and public policy.

Special Topics in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Prereq: Varies by topic.  Freq: Occasionally.
Delves into special topics in clinical mental health counseling.

Counseling Practicum
Prereq: Admission to the MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program, CMHC 740, and satisfactory ratings of program evaluation metrics.  Freq: Spring.
Offers a closely supervised training setting to enhance skill level and broaden the array of skills. Students will receive weekly supervison by both site supervisor and university supervisor. Students complete a minimum of 100 hours of practicum experiences with at least 40 hours of face-to-face client contact.

Internship in Counseling I
Prereq: Admission to the MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program; CMHC 740, 794; and satisfactory ratings of program evaluation metrics.  Freq: Summer.
Provides an opportunity for supervised counseling experience in which students serve as counselors at pre-arranged sites. Students complete a minimum of 300 hours of supervised internship experiences with at least 240 hours of face-to-face client contact.

Internship in Counseling II
Prereq: Admission to the MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program, CMHC 740, 794, 795, and satisfactory ratings of program evaluation metrics.  Freq: Fall.
Provides an additional opportunity for supervised counseling experience in which students serve as counselors at pre-arranged sites.

Independent Reading or Research
Prereq: Admission to the MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program, and consent of instructor. Freq: Fall, Spring, Summer.
Offers independent reading or research activities under the direction of a faculty member.

Thesis
Prereq: Admission to the MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program, and consent of instructor. Freq: Fall, Spring, Summer.
Provides supervision of thesis under the direction of a faculty member.