威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校

The M.S. program emphasizes counseling in community and agency settings, including university and college counseling centers. The master's degree emphasizes service delivery, and its practice/internship components reflect that emphasis. The curriculum stresses knowledge and development of skills in individual and group counseling, consultation, research, ethics, multiculturalism, social justice and vocational psychology. Students are prepared to work predominantly as practitioners in community agencies, postsecondary educational institutions, business and industry. The program fulfills academic requirements to become a licensed professional counselor in the state of Wisconsin.

The sequence of required courses combined with lab and field experiences can be planned on either a full- or part-time basis, but care must be taken in proper sequencing of courses for those attending part-time. Those students enrolling on a full-time basis typically complete the program in two years, including summer classes.

Learning outcomes

• Students will develop knowledge foundational to the practice of mental health counseling including normative and no normative human development; individual, group, and couples/family counseling; cultural and social diversity. Measurement and evaluation; and exposure to crisis, trauma, and stress
• Students will develop skills for effective individual, family, and group counseling for mental health concerns and well-being as well as effective consultation, evaluation and progress monitoring.
• Students will apply principles associated with multiculturalism, polyculturalism, and social justice.
• Students will develop understanding, identification with and comportment with the profession of mental health counseling including standards of care, moral and ethical principles, professional identity, professional relationships, professional demeanor, self-reflection, and awareness of impact on others.