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A clinical mental health counselor focuses on helping people address the personal, familial, and social issues that interfere with their abilities to lead healthy and productive lives. Our practice-oriented program equips graduates for a variety of specialties in mental health counseling, including community agency work, substance abuse and addictions work, in-patient treatment, and college counseling. Through a combination of classroom and field experiences, you develop a unique, professional identity as a clinical mental health counselor.
Engage with active, dedicated faculty.
Discover a faculty of professionals who are committed to preparing you for your career through excellence in teaching, active involvement in clinical practice and scholarship, and service to the community and profession.
Learn by doing.
Apply your knowledge, develop your professional identity, and fine-tune your skills in supervised field work which includes a one semester practicum and three semesters of internship experiences. Practicum takes place in the third semester and introduces students to work in the field with 40 hours of direct service to clients as they learn the policy of the agency and the roles of the mental health counselor. The first internship semester continues at the same site as the practicum while the site for the final two-semester internship may change. The students provide 120 hours of direct service to clients during each internship semester.
Get ready for licensure.
Prepare yourself for licensure by building competency in eight core areas, as recommended by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs: professional identity; foundations of social and cultural diversity; human growth and development; career development; the helping relationship; group work; assessment; and research and program development.
Program Delivery
- 62-credit program completed in 6 semesters
- Begins in Fall or Spring
- Classes 1 day a week*
- Practicum required in 3rd semester
- Internships required in 4th, 5th, and 6th semesters
*Spring entrants attend classes 2 days a week in their first Summer semester.
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Shelley Viles honored with the Doug Flutie, Jr. Award
The Doug Flutie, Jr. Foundation for Autism announces prize at annual conference.
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Laura Copeland, MA '89
Director of Behavioral Health Disaster Services
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene State of Maryland
What is your current professional role?
As director of Behavioral Health Disaster Services for the State of
Maryland, I am responsible for helping community mental health centers
develop “all-hazards” plans for behavioral health. In my first
year, I developed a collaboration between the Maryland National Guard,
Maryland Defense Force, and the State, providing training to licensed
mental health volunteers to work with National Guard families during the
period of time a service member is deployed. This collaboration is now
being considered as a national model.
How was your Antioch New England experience
most valuable?
I always felt encouraged to take my excitement and passion and develop
it. I can easily say that my Antioch education gave me all the basic
tools I needed to begin working with confidence and skill.
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