Degree Requirements
Program Common Core Requirements: (12 credits)
- Advanced Human Growth and Development
- Advanced Social and Cultural Foundations
- Promoting Personal and Institutional Resiliency
- Collaboration, Colleagueship & Reflective Practice
Common Core Research Requirements: (15 credits)
- Research and Program Evaluation
- Survey of Research Methods in the Social Domain
- Individualized Research Design
- Dissertation Research I, Dissertation Research II
Concentration Core Requirements: (15 credits)
- Advanced Counseling Theory and Practice (Helping Relationships)
- Advanced Group Work: Theory and Methodology
- Clinical Supervision
- Advanced Appraisal (Test and Measurements for Individuals and Groups)
- Advanced Professional Orientation and Ethics
Program Wide Requirements: (15 credits)
- Professional Portfolio
- Dissertation I
- Dissertation II
- Dissertation III
- Applied Field Work/Internship
Electives: 15 credits
With faculty permission, students choose from among concentration requirements that they have not previously taken, or from a list of electives. This is a sample of some electives to be offered:
Professional Counseling Specialty:
- Advanced Theory and Practice of Career and Lifestyle Development (**required for licensure track Biological Bases of Behavior Family Therapy 31)
- Human Sexuality for Counselors
- Positive Psychology
- Psychopharmacology
- Substance Abuse & Addictive Disorders
- Directed Study Abnormal Psychology
- Personality Theory and Development
- Psychology of Learning
- Spirituality in Counseling
- Internship 1, 2 & 3
Counselor Supervision Specialty:
- Directed Study (with faculty permission)*
- Group Supervision
- Challenges in Supervision
- Supervising Coaches
- Supporting Beginning Therapists in Supervision
- Theory Orientation: Supervision within Specific Theoretical Orientations
- Ethics in Supervision
- Honoring Clinicians’ Values in Supervision
- Positive Approaches to Supervision
- Supervision in Family Therapy Supervisor Authenticity
Total Credits: 72 (or 73 for licensure track)
* Students are allowed to develop, under faculty supervision, courses to individualize their overall program of study
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