Community Counseling - Marquette University

Community Counseling from Marquette University is a Campus Master Community Health degree that prepares you for a Healthcare career. Program philosophy There are a specialization in our master's in counseling program: community counseling. The community counseling track primarily prepares professional counselors to work in a variety of behavioral health and related settings and is designed to lead to licensure as a professional counselor. The program is relatively clinically oriented and are designed to develop strong counseling and therapy skills in our graduates. Our program emphasizes the development of strong assessment, case conceptualization and intervention skills, in addition to solid preparation in the other research and professional skills that needed to become effective counselors. The community counseling program use a developmental perspective that emphasizes growth and development, improving individuals' quality of life, and focusing on strengths and resources, in addition to psychological deficits and problems. The ability to diagnose and treat psychopathology is an essential skill in our graduates, but our program also emphasizes the assessment of strengths and resources, as well as the development of resource-focused interventions designed to maximize the healthy and optimal functioning of individuals and communities. In fact, we consider it an ethical obligation to focus on strengths and resources in addition to deficits and problems when conducting assessments and designing prevention programs and treatment plans for clients and students. Minimizing either one can result in an incomplete conceptualization that is likely to result in less effective interventions and potentially deleterious effects. Another implication of a developmental emphasis involves prevention and the need for proactive systems interventions. For example, fighting poverty, racism and other destructive societal and community influences are more important in certain contexts than applying individualized counseling interventions. We believe that sensitivity to biological, psychological, social, cultural and developmental influences on behavior increases students' effectiveness as practitioners as well as the additional roles in which they are likely to engage (e.g., instructor, supervisor, consultant). This approach also helps students develop an appreciation for the importance of prevention with regard to behavioral as well as medical and social problems. Indeed, we view competence in working with all of these factors as necessary for the successful practice of counseling. View more details on Marquette University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Community Health courses.