Academics

Required Courses*

Required Courses*

For a description of the course, click the course name below (this will lead you to the Online course description):

  • COUNSL 601 Research and Evaluation
  • COUNSL 605 Principles of Vocational, Educational, and Psychological Assessment
  • COUNSL 606 Ethical Standards & Professional Issues in Counseling
  • COUNSL 608 Abnormal Psychology
  • COUNSL 613 Vocational Development and Career Information
  • COUNSL 614 Counseling Theory and Practice I
  • COUNSL 615 Counseling Theory and Practice II or COUNSL 617 Child and Adolescent Counseling
  • COUNSL 616 Group Counseling and Group Dynamics or COUNSL 650 Group Counseling for Children and Adolescents
  • COUNSL 620 Human Development: Theory, Research, and Practice
  • COUNSL 653 Diversity in Counseling (formerly "cross-cultural")
  • COUNSL 672 Substance Abuse and the Family or COUNSL 672 Substance Abuse and Modern Society
  • COUNSL 674 Psychopharmacology

3 Electives:

Approved electives : COUNSL 602, COUNSL 617 (strongly recommended) , COUNSL 615 is strongly recommended if you chose 617 as a required course; COUNSL 622 (strongly recommended and is a prerequisite for higher level Family Therapy courses which also could count as electives) , COUNSL 635 , COUNSL 650, COUNSL 664 (only offered online in the summer) ; SPY G 606

 *Students may need to take one or more of the required courses on-line.

Required field experience : COUNSL 688 (100 hrs.) and two semester of COUNSL 698 (450 hrs per semester, 6 credits per semester, 900 hours and 12 credits total).

Required capstone : The capstone for Mental Health Counseling is a clinical case analysis that includes a taped and transcripted counseling session and a detailed analysis of the contextual, developmental, ethical, psychosocial, treatment, and counter-transference issues as they apply to the case.

              Minimum grade requirement :The department's minimum grade requirement is B-.  If a student receives a lower grade in a course, he or she will need to take that course again.

Mental Health Counseling: Forensic Services Concentration

  • COU 601 Research and Evaluation
  • COU 605 Principles of Vocational, Educational and Psychological Assessment
  • COU 606 Ethical Standards and Professional Issues in Counseling
  • COU 608 Abnormal Psychology
  • COU 613 Vocational Development and Career Information
  • COU 614 Counseling Theory and Practice I
  • COU 615 Counseling Theory and Practice II
  • COU 616 Group Counseling and Group Dynamics
  • COU 620 Clinical Application of Human Development
  • COU 653 Perspectives in Cross-Cultural Counseling
  • PSYCH 614 Forensic Psychology
  • One selection from SOCIOL 618, 621, and 682
  • Two from SOCIOL 667, 623, 690, and 691
  • COU 688 Mental Health Counseling Practicum (100 hours)
  • COU 698 Internship (2 semesters - 450 hours/semester - 6 credits each)

   

 *Students may need to take one or more of the required courses online.