The Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling will prepare students with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to work as a professional counselor. This program offers advanced coursework in addiction, adult, older adult, and youth. The Clinical Mental Health Counseling program offers students:
- A partnership with SRU's counseling center, which serves as a laboratory for learning
- Experiential, hands-on learning that occurs throughout the program
- Flexibility to add credits and design a personalized path for credentials that lead to being a National Certified Counselor (NCC) and are license-eligible in Pennsylvania as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)
Clinical Mental Health Program Mission Statement:
The mission of the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program is to prepare competent counseling professionals who respect human dignity and diversity, demonstrate the dispositions of a helping professional, and are grounded in their identity as a professional counselor.
Program Objectives:
- Students will be able to show competence as a counselor in the following areas:
- Knowledge
- Skills
- Dispositions
- Students will promote respect for human dignity and diversity.
- Students will demonstrate a professional identity in the counseling field.
