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Clinical Mental Health Counseling - MSED

Program Overview:

The mission of The College of Saint Rose Clinical Mental Health Counseling program is to prepare students to become culturally competent counselors and engaged advocates that work in a variety of clinical mental health settings and with a diverse range of clients. Our students are prepared to provide client-centered clinical services, including diagnosis, treatment planning, and interventions, focused on the unique needs of individuals, couples, families, and groups across the lifespan. Framed by an ecological and multicultural perspective, students in our program gain the knowledge, awareness, and skills needed to effectively intervene with a variety of presenting concerns and populations. Our graduates are reflective practitioners committed to social justice and the provision of quality clinical services to all within our communities.

The Clinical Mental Health Counseling program is intended to prepare licensed professional counselors to address the clinical needs of children, adolescents and adults in a variety of mental health and community settings. Competencies in working with individuals, groups, families, organizations and communities are developed through a combination of course work in theory, application, and internship experiences. Course work introduces students to current theory and research in counseling across the life span, as well as a variety of psychological disorders.

Students develop competence in mental health counseling approaches through course work in mental health counseling interventions (with a focus on advocacy and social justice), assessment and appraisal, case management and consultation, family violence, social and cross-cultural counseling methods, and practicum/internships in a mental health or community agency setting. The practicum and internships in mental health counseling provide students with opportunities to develop additional skills related to effective clinical mental health counseling practice. Practicum students and interns are supervised by a licensed mental health professional at their sites and a faculty liaison. Electives may be taken in child, adolescent or adult development, school or college counseling, special education, or any special topics courses in counseling.

Program Contacts:

Program Requirements:

CSL 500Counseling Theory and Practice

3

CSL 505Research in Counseling

3

CSL 528Clinical Counsel Skills

3

CSL 529Tests, Measuremnt, Appraisal

3

CSL 530Life-Span Developmnt Issues

3

CSL 540Soc & Cult Foundations in CSL

3

CSL 553Group Counseling & Dynamics

3

CSL 554Career Development

3

CSL 999Qualifying Exam

0

or

CSL 599Thesis

3 or 6

CSL 584Qualifying Exam Workshop

0

EDU 603Child Abuse Prevention

0

EDU 606Univ Prec & Conf AIDS/HIV

0

EDU 611Dignity For All Students

0

CSL 501Prof Orient & Ethical Practice

3

CSL 509Practicum in Ment Hlth Cnslg

3

CSL 534CSL Intervent w/Chld, Adoles

3

CSL 538Alcohol & Subst Abuse Cnslg

3

CSL 575Intro to Family Counseling

3

CSL 576Disaster, Crisis, Trauma Cnslg

3

CSL 578Case Mgmnt, Consul, Organ Chng

3

CSL 585Psychopathology

3

CSL 588Seminar in Family Violence

3

CSL 593Mental Hlth Cnslg Intern I

3

CSL 594Mental Hlth Cnslg Intern II

3

Students in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling program have three credit hours of electives. Electives may include courses in counseling, developmental and educational psychology, social work, special education or special topics courses in counseling that fit into the program of study. Elective courses are selected with advisor’s approval.


Internship/Field Experience/Service:

CSL 509Practicum in Ment Hlth Cnslg

3

CSL 593Mental Hlth Cnslg Intern I

3

CSL 594Mental Hlth Cnslg Intern II

3

CSL 509: (Prerequisites: CSL 501, CSL 528, CSL 585; Co-requisite: CSL 553)

CSL 593: (Prerequisites: CSL 501, 509, 528, 553, CSL 585, 24 credits, all workshops)

CSL 594: (Pre-requisite: CSL 593)


Professional Accreditation:

Admissions and Financial Aid Information:

See Graduate Admissions section for more information.

The College of Saint Rose has long been committed to the premise that a quality education should be within the reach of qualified students. To this end, the College serves its student body through a comprehensive program of federal, state, and institutional financial aid. While the basic responsibility for financing education lies with the students and their families, scholarships, loans, and/or assistantships can supplement insufficient family resources. The amount of aid available through the College is limited and is awarded on the basis of academic merit. All financial assistance from the College is subject to adjustment if the recipients are later granted aid from other sources. Financial aid awards are contingent upon students’ maintaining good academic standing and satisfactory academic progress.

Additional Requirements for Admission to the Counseling Master’s Degree Programs (M.S. in Education):

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