探花视频's Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program prepares highly skilled professional counselors who are license-eligible to practice in a variety of settings. Students can pursue a general track or a specialization in addictions, child and adolescent, or clinical rehabilitation counseling. Our program is offered as an in-person program with full-time and part-time options or a . Our on-campus program is fully accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP).
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The HRSA grant supports experiential training opportunities focusing on clinical mental health counselors with a child and adolescent specialization. This award builds upon the department鈥檚 clinical mental health counseling 鈥� child and adolescent specialization (CMHC-CAS) program, the only such training program in Wisconsin.
The curriculum for CMHC-CAS centers on evidence-based training that emphasizes an interprofessional team-based, trauma-informed care approach, with cultural humility and social justice focuses. Clinical placements are available at primary care settings in high-need and high-demand areas throughout Milwaukee County. This award will fund internship stipends for awardees until 2029.
The Health Resources and Services Administration is the primary federal agency for improving health care to people who are geographically isolated or economically or medically vulnerable. This award is funded through the HRSA鈥檚 Behavioral Health Workforce and Education Training program for Professionals which is increasing the supply of behavioral health professionals while also improving distribution of a quality behavioral health workforce, and thereby increasing access to behavioral health services in the underserved communities where behavioral health services are most urgently needed.
The HRSA grant is available through 2029. A limited number of students per year are eligible and must be admitted to the Clinical Mental Health Counseling program and declare their specialization as child and adolescent counseling. Students can apply for the HRSA internship stipend once they have successfully completed their practicum and continue the same site placement in internships for the following Fall and Spring semester.
Applications complete by February 1 will receive priority consideration for admission interviews. Admission will continue on a rolling basis as space permits after the deadline.
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Our Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program is fully accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs ().
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1. Apply knowledge of bio-psycho-social-cultural foundations of behavior and evidence-based counseling approaches to diverse individuals and groups.
2. Apply professional, ethical and legal standards in their counseling practices.
3. Assume advocacy roles for the mental health care of underserved individuals and groups in urban settings.
4. Integrate self-awareness, counseling roles and reflective practices into a professional counseling identity.
5. Provide clinical mental health counseling prevention and treatment services for diverse individuals and groups in community settings.
Our program faculty, staff and students believe it is our responsibility to actively engage in creating a more equitable, diverse and inclusive world. We value and embrace diversity across all forms of identity. We acknowledge the complexity of diversity as it relates to privilege and the disparities of racial and social power impacting our society. It is our duty to dismantle discriminatory systems, and we are committed to doing so through our research, practice and service. As members of an academic community, we believe that diversity enriches our educational and professional growth, as well as our communities. We dedicate ourselves to increasing self-awareness, growth, collaboration, relationship-building and ongoing education. In our quest for racial and social justice, we advocate with, and for, those in our communities whose voices deserve to be heard. We are committed to taking personal and group responsibility for racial and social justice, and to hold one another accountable. Learn more about our Commitment to Diversity.
Students with a bachelor's degree who wish to pursue a license-eligible degree in the field of counseling, or who anticipate pursuing a Ph.D. in counseling psychology should apply to this program.
Students with a variety of backgrounds are admitted to our programs. Some enter with a bachelor's degree, others have completed some graduate courses, others have a master's degree in a mental health field, and a few have even had doctoral degrees in another field but wish to retrain as counselors and counseling psychologists. All applicants must have at least attained a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university.
