Clinical Mental Health Counseling - SUNY College at Plattsburgh

Clinical Mental Health Counseling from SUNY College at Plattsburgh is a Campus Master Counseling degree that prepares you for a Healthcare career. Our Clinical Mental Health Counseling Master's Program Allows You To: Prepare for a career as a licensed mental health counselor working in community mental health settings. Foster Clinical Mental Health Counseling values, skills, and a helping orientation. Apply clinical treatment and prevention models to the holistic development of individuals, groups, and organizations. Benefit from courses that have been pre-approved by the State Education Department as conforming to the state licensure requirements for mental health counselors. Develop clinical skills in client assessment, diagnosis, psychosocial history writing, treatment planning, and progress documentation. Acquire skills in agency management, program planning, mental health services implementation and evaluation, case management, and consultation. Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling What is Clinical Mental Health Counseling? The new clinical mental health counseling program (CMHC) is a 60 credit-hour master's degree program begun in January 2006. The clinical mental health counseling program has been approved by the New York State Education Department as a "license eligible" academic program, one that satisfies the state's educational requirements leading toward professional licensure as a mental health counselor . The clinical mental health counseling clinical training program emphasizes the knowledge, skills, ethical, and professional orientation to community mental health field, and assessment, how to use the DSM-IV-TR, write psychosocial histories and treatment plans, and how to evaluate the effectiveness of community mental health programs and services. Professional counselor ethics and multicultural competencies are emphasized. Moreover, advocacy, case management, and social and public policy skills acquisition are addressed. Benefits Upon graduation from the M.S. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program, graduates are: 1. eligible to sit for the New York State MHC licensing examinations (CMHCE); 2. upon receipt of a "Limited Permit" Mental Health Counselor License, able to practice in clinical mental health counseling supervised settings; 3. eligible to pursue the 3,000 hours of supervised clinical mental health counseling experience licensure requirement, and 4. upon completion apply for a permanent New York Mental Health Counselor license. Upon becoming licensed as a mental health counselor , one can engage in public or private practice, work as a clinician or clinical supervisor in community mental health programs, and in regional and state mental health services, and work as an agency or independent mental health consultant. View more details on SUNY College at Plattsburgh . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Counseling courses.