Master of Science - Counseling and Human Development - Clinical Mental Health Counselling

The clinical mental health counseling concentration in Radford University’s Department of Counselor Education prepares emerging counselors through an experiential, contextual, and systemic curriculum, infused with foundational and current counseling-related research, counseling and human development needs of clients from diverse backgrounds and culturally diverse populations, and clinical and outreach activities. The program helps students develop a strong counselor professional identity through ethical and competent practice as well as expanding self-awareness. Students serve as professional mental health counselors who practice in community agencies and other clinical mental health settings. Students preparing to work as clinical mental health counselors through Radford University program will gain the professional knowledge, skills, and practices necessary to address a wide variety of circumstances within the clinical mental health counseling context. Radford University program provides these foundations through the following objectives to:
 

- -Recruit qualified applicants ensuring equal consideration of candidates from diverse and underrepresented populations, (e.g., racial, ethnic, sexual, disabled, economic minorities, etc.);

-  

- -Provide experiences that inform and facilitate professional identity through personal and professional growth;

- -Teach the effective application of legal and ethical standards specific to clinical mental health counseling practice;

- -Assist students in developing multicultural counseling competencies (e.g., awareness, knowledge, and skills) to meet the needs of a pluralistic society;

- -Teach the core counseling skills and strategies that are foundational to clinical mental health counseling;

- -Contribute to the clinical mental health counseling profession through professional engagement (e.g., membership in professional organizations, participation in conferences, participation in advocacy and social justice initiatives);

- -Provide students information and support in the licensure process;

- -Provide connections to mental health and other relevant community partners.

- -Support students in their identification of appropriate post-graduate employment opportunities;

 

Total Tuition Fees: $38,116