School Counseling - Our Lady of Holy Cross College

School Counseling from Our Lady of Holy Cross College is a Campus Master Counseling and Personnel Services degree that prepares you for a Education career. The Department of Counseling and Behavioral Sciences offers a Master?s of Arts Degree in Counseling in three specialty areas: Clinical Mental Health Counseling (formerly Community Counseling), Marriage and Family Counseling, and School Counseling . All three specialty programs are accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). The accreditation for all three programs runs through October 31, 2014. The Clinical Mental Health Counseling program at Our Lady of Holy Cross College (OLHCC) is accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). The accreditation runs through October 31, 2014. (Note: The Clinical Mental Health Counseling program is currently accredited under the 2001 standards for Community Counseling programs as a Community Counseling program. The CACREP 2009 standards combine the Community Counseling and Mental Health Counseling standards into standards for Clinical Mental Health Counseling programs. The counseling program intends to seek accreditation for this program as a Clinical Mental Health Counseling program when it comes up for reaccreditation in 2014, per CACREP guidelines.) PROGRAM OBJECTIVES Teaching: The programs prepare students from diverse backgrounds to become responsible professionals capable of delivering effective services in educational and community settings. Objectives for achieving the teaching mission of the programs include: 1. recruit, maintain, and matriculate culturally diverse students who have vocational goals that can be met in counseling occupations and who demonstrate the potential to contribute to their chosen profession; 2. provide a curriculum that not only meets the requirements of national accreditation standards, but also infuses a socio-cultural, systemic, developmental, and wellness perspective; 3. provide the students with opportunities to apply theories to practice and to develop professionally through supervised on-the-job-training experiences in a wide variety of educational and community settings; 4. monitor students individually throughout their academic careers in order to promote both personal and professional development; 5. foster students? identification as professionals through membership in professional associations and to encourage life-long learning in graduates by instilling awareness of continuing education needs and opportunities; 6. reflect input from all persons involved in conducting the program, including program faculty, current and former students, and personnel in cooperating agencies. View more details on Our Lady of Holy Cross College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Counseling and Personnel Services courses.