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This program combines a strong didactic core curriculum with an equally strong clinical practicum experience in order to prepare graduates for a career in professional clinical mental health counseling. The M.S. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling requires 60 credits.

The M.S. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling will be awarded to students who have successfully completed the academic and internship requirements of the program (see below for an outline of the requirements).

Learning Aims

As a result of successfully completing the program, students will be able to:

• demonstrate skillfulness in functioning as counselors in a variety of clinical settings through the ability to elicit essential client data resulting in accurate understanding of client issues, diagnosis, appropriate treatment planning, and the use of at least one theoretical approach to counseling;
• demonstrate the ability to integrate religious, spiritual, and faith issues in clinical practices and coursework;
• demonstrate maturity and openness to supervision and learning by hearing and incorporating feedback in classes, clinical experiences, and interactions with faculty, students, and supervisors;
• exhibit cultural sensitivity to others in all aspects of the program while developing multi-cultural competencies to engage and treat a culturally diverse population;
• demonstrate an ability to think critically and ethically, and to act with the utmost of professional comportment warranted by the counseling profession;
• demonstrate professional identity as counselors, specifically pastoral counselors, as exhibited by participation in professional organizations.