Master of Arts Degree in Counseling

Concentrations

Each concentration requires approximately 4 to 5 semesters or 2.5 years to complete.

 

Community Agency Counseling

The Community Agency Counseling Concentration is designed to prepare students to demonstrate knowledge and skills with several counseling modalities appropriate for a broad range of clients in a multicultural society interact effectively with other helping professionals and referral resources; make appropriate counselor-client related decisions in the context of professional, ethical, and legal guidelines; fill effectively, entry-level positions of professional responsibility within the specialization of agency counseling.

 

Rehabilitation Counseling

The Rehabilitation Counseling Concentration trains candidates to deal with the personal, social, and vocational effects of disabilities. They counsel people with disabilities resulting from birth defects, illness or disease, accidents, or the stress of daily life. They evaluate the strengths and limitations of individuals, provide personal and vocational counseling, and arrange for medical care, vocational training, and job placement. Rehabilitation counselors interview both individuals with disabilities and their families, evaluate school and medical reports, and confer and plan with physicians, psychologists, occupational therapists, and employers to determine the capabilities and skills of the individual. Conferring with the client, they develop a rehabilitation program that often includes training to help the person develop job skills. Rehabilitation counselors also work toward increasing the client’s capacity to live independently.

 

School Counseling

The School Counseling Concentration educates professionals responsible for enabling diverse students to achieve success in school and to develop into contributing members of our society.  Graduates of our counseling program are ethically obligated to strive toward optimum psychological health and to engage in self-care activities which attend to the physical, mental, spiritual, and psychological dimensions.