Bachelor degrees in Mental Health Counseling + Counselor: A program that prepares individuals to provide evaluations, referrals, and short-term counseling services to help people prevent or remediate personal problems, conflicts, and emotional crises. Includes instruction in human development, psychopathology, individual and group counseling, personality theory, career assessment, patient screening and referral, observation and testing techniques, interviewing skills, professional standards and ethics, and applicable laws and regulations.
A student who pursues a major within this discipline will be able to pursue
a wide range of occupations in different institutional settings. These include
such jobs as researchers, child care worker, juvenile delinquent counselor,
probation officer, hospital social worker, substance abuse counselor, mentalhealth worker, and group home worker.
The Early Childhood/Special Education Program is organized to provide prospective teachers with essential competencies needed to effectively meet the intellectual, emotional, and social needs of young children. The goal of the program is to prepare prospective teachers with the methodology, knowledge, and diagnostic skills imperative to meeting the diverse needs of typical and atypical primary aged students. The Early Childhood/Special Education Program...
The goal of the mental health track is to provide specialized course work and practical experience that will make one more attractive to employers (e.g., mental health services, child care, casework) immediately after graduation or to give a competitive edge when seeking admission to graduate school. The course work will afford an in-depth analysis of psychopathology from a developmental perspective and permit a greater understanding of the various...
Do you want to help others makes sense of the world and their own lives? Do you want to help people find hope and healing? Do you want to guide someone to a better path and enable them to make better choices?
If so, a career in mental health and human services may be the career for you.
People in the mental health and human services field work in mental health clinics, public and private agencies, nursing homes, youth service agencies, day-care...
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