Online Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
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The Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling (MSCMHC) offers a rigorous 24 month, 60-credit, degree program that provides the educational preparation for licensure in your home state. The Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program involves an intensive internship program, in which students are placed according to their talents and career ambitions, and mentored by New England College core faculty members. New England College is proud of our strong history of partnering with mental health and counseling organizations. NEC serves as an educator of organization staff, an employer of adjunct faculty, and the program and organizations work together to benefit all parties in developing clinical internship placements.
Paul Dann explains the special features of our Mental Health Counseling MS program.
New England College Masters of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program Mission The mission of the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program is to provide high quality graduate level education to ensure the development of highly qualified clinical mental health counselors. The program pursues this through the careful integration of scholarship and clinical practice combined with focusing critical attention on the professional and ethical development of each student. The institution recognizes the importance of ensuring that students who plan to graduate in order to pursue a clinical mental health counseling practice achieve the academic, practical, and developmental assets necessary to be highly successful within the field of mental health counseling. |
• Professional Counseling Orientation and Ethical Practice
Students will acquire knowledge of the history and philosophy of counseling; professional roles, collaboration, professional organizations, credentialing, and ACA and AMHCA ethical standards as a means to developing a counseling identity and an advocacy mindset.
• Social and Cultural Diversity
Students will acquire knowledge of how the elements of diversity and societal factors impact individuals; while, gaining self-awareness regarding their culture and developing a personal understanding of how their own perspectives may affect the counseling relationship.
• Human Growth and Development
Students will acquire knowledge of adaptive and maladaptive development, developmental crises, disability, psychopathology, and theories development and will apply theories of learning, personality development, and strategies for helping individuals throughout the lifespan in an ethical and developmentally appropriate manner.
• Career Development
Students will know and apply career development theories, decision-making models, vocational and occupational information to career development program planning, organization, implementation, administration, and evaluation.
• Counseling and Helping Relationships
Students will demonstrate basic and advanced counseling skills, including developing goals and interventions for the purpose of working directly with or indirectly in consultation with various stakeholders in various settings to improve the lives of those they serve.
• Group Counseling and Group Work
Students will know group theory and gain an experiential understanding of group development, dynamics, and leadership styles for use in an ethical and legal manner in various types of groups.
• Assessment and Testing
Students will know statistical concepts, reliability, validity, multicultural issues in assessment, ethical and legal issues, as well as learn bio-psychosocial assessment, case conceptualization, principles of diagnosis, and use of the current DSM so that they have the ability to conduct individual and group assessment and evaluations.
• Research and Program Evaluation
Students will acquire knowledge of research methods, statistical analyses, needs assessment, and program evaluation, including qualitative and quantitative methods, technology uses, and ethical and legal issues.
• Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Students will have knowledge of integrative systems of care; fiscal and legal issues; collaboration; community needs assessment; interventions and outreach; individuals and communities served; and clinical mental health counseling services.
• Professional Practice
Students will develop and demonstrate clinical skills through supervised practicum and internship experiences and an integration of the knowledge and skills needed to be successful as practicing counselors.
Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling (60 credits)
Term 1
COUN 5000 Introduction to Counseling COUN 5510 Counseling Theories and Techniques COUN 5140 Human Growth and Development
Term 2
COUN 5520 Skills in Helping Relationships – Residency COUN 6190 Social and Cultural Foundations COUN 5920 Assessment and Assessment Techniques
Term 3
COUN 6120 Research Methods and Program Evaluation COUN 6350 Career and Lifestyle Development COUN 5210 Psychopathology and Diagnostic Systems
Term 4
COUN 6170 Substance Use Disorders and Process Addictions COUN 6910 Crisis and Trauma Counseling COUN 5530 Group Counseling
Term 5
COUN 6520 Advanced Skills in Helping Relationships – Residency CMHC 6400 Treatment Planning and Advanced Assessment CMHC 5910 Professional Issues and Ethics in CMHC
Term 6
CMHC 6960 Practicum in CMHC – Field Placement Elective
Term 7
CMHC 6970 Internship I in CMHC – Field Placement Elective
Term 8
CMHC 6980 Advanced Internship in CMHC – Field Placement
Electives (select 2 for your state)
COUN 7010 Counseling Couples and Families COUN XXXX Human Sexuality COUN XXXX Counseling Special Populations COUN XXXX Psychopharmacology and Advanced Psychopathology CMHC XXXX Advanced Internship II in CMHC – Field Placement
Admissions Requirements for Online MSCMHC Program
- Online application
- Official college transcript(s)
- Resume
- One letter of recommendation
- 750 Word personal statement
Contact
Casey Walker
Associate Director of Graduate Admission
cwalker@nec.edu | 603-428-2357