Counseling, MA Clinical Mental Health Counseling Track

48 credit hours

The program described below is designed to meet the academic requirements toward licensure as a professional counselor set forth by the state of Missouri. Additional requirements for licensure can be found at http://pr.mo.gov/counselors.asp.

Requirements

Core Curriculum

IPC 51100Foundations of Clinical Mental Health Counseling

3

IPC 51200Ethics and Professional Issues

3

IPC 52100Human Growth and Development

3

IPC 52200Personality Theories and Psychopathology

3

IPC 52400Adult Diagnosis and Treatment Planning

3

IPC 54100Research Methods and Program Evaluation

3

IPC 55100Counseling Theory and Practice

3

IPC 55200Counseling Skills Lab

3

IPC 56100Group Dynamics, Process and Counseling

3

IPC 56200Social and Cultural Foundations of Counseling

3

IPC 58100Appraisal of the Individual

3

IPC 58200Lifestyle and Career Development

3

IPC 62000Counseling Internship

3-6

Note: Courses are three credit hours unless otherwise indicated.

Electives

Students are to choose six hours of elective credit from among the following course offerings to fulfill degree requirements:

IPC 51300Principles of School Counseling

3

IPC 52300Adjustment and Learning Issues in Children and Adolescents

3

IPC 53100Family Counseling

3

IPC 53200Marital Counseling

3

IPC 54200Statistical Analysis

3

IPC 55300Theories of Counseling Children and Adolescents

3

IPC 56400Crisis Intervention

3

IPC 56500Introduction to Substance Abuse Counseling

3

IPC 57500Family and School Consulting

3

IPC 58300Analysis of the Individual

3

IPC 59000-59999Special Topics in Counseling

1-6

IPC 61003Spirituality and Counseling

3

IPC 61004Adult Survivors of Trauma

3

IPC 61005Clinical Hypnotherapy

6

IPC 61006Grief Counseling

3

IPC 61007Core Communication

3

IPC 62001Internship Extension

0

Note: Courses are three credit hours unless otherwise indicated.

Internship Requirement

Students in the clinical mental health counseling track are required to complete a minimum of 600 hours of supervised internship experience over two semesters. Prior to internship, students must have a GPA of 3.0 or higher. Students are expected to earn a grade of A or B in Counseling Internship (IPC 62000) in order to graduate. Students will be required to repeat the course if they earn less than a B. If students take an incomplete during their first semester of internship and have less than half the required internship hours, they must enroll in IPC 62001 for zero credit hours to allow them to attend internship classes while completing the required hours. If students take an incomplete during their second internship, regardless of how many hours are needed, they must enroll in IPC 62001 for zero credit hours to allow them to attend internship classes while completing the required internship hours. A fee of $50 will be incurred for each extension.

Exit Requirements

In order to fulfill degree requirements, each student completes IPC 60500 Comprehensive Examination by obtaining a passing score on the Counselor Preparation Comprehensive Examination (CPCE). Further information regarding exit requirements is provided in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Handbook.

IPC 60500Comprehensive Examination

0