Community Counseling Concentration
The Master of Arts in Counseling degree is designed to meet or exceed graduation requirements for those students who are seeking Licensure in the State of Ohio as either Professional School Counselor or Professional Counselor/Professional Clinical Counselor. Students must complete 4 semester hours including the required Foundation and Core courses and electives necessary to reach the minimum 48 semester hours.
The Community Counseling program is designed to meet the academic and field experience requirements for those students who are seeking licensure as a Professional Counselor (PC) or Professional Clinical Counselor (PCC) in the state of Ohio. To qualify to take the state counseling licensure examination, students must have completed at least 60 semester hours of coursework, including at least 20 semester hours of clinical coursework, and take at least one course in each of the following 5 clinical areas:
- clinical psychopathology, personality, and abnormal behavior
- evaluation of mental and emotional disorders
- diagnosis of mental and emotional disorders
- methods of intervention and prevention of mental and emotional disorders
- treatment of mental and emotional disorders.
Students must also complete a 100 hour Practicum field experience and 600 hours of Internship field experience.
All coursework necessary to complete the 60 hours needed to satisfy Program and Licensing Board requirements to sit for the Professional Counselor Licensure Examination (PCLE) are available through the Graduate Studies in Counseling Program at Heidelberg University. All 600 level courses are advanced Clinical Endorsement courses and require the necessary prerequisites (see course descriptions).