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Graduate Counseling - Community Counseling
There is no doubt that stress, burnout, anxiety, depression and other mental health related issues are on the rise. The National Institute of Mental Health reports one in four adults suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder and 5% of children ages 4-17 experience emotional and behavioral difficulties. Our society is in need of skilled counselors to provide a source of healing and restoration to a hurting world. At IWU, students in the master’s degree in community counseling program are trained to provide mental health counseling in private practices, community agencies, and organizational settings. The graduate counseling program prepares students to become highly competent mental health counselors constantly striving to facilitate change in the lives of the people whom they serve.
Students have the option of pursuing either a 48-hour or 60-hour community counseling degree. Students who choose to pursue the 48-hour program are required to complete 100 practicum hours and 600 internship hours. Those that choose to pursue the 60-hour Community Counseling Program are required to complete 100 practicum hours and 900 internship hours. The 60-hour program curriculum meets the academic requirements for licensure as a mental health counselor in the state of Indiana.
Students in the graduate counseling program are exposed to a variety of learning environments through the classroom, practicum experience, and internship placement. Due to CACREP accreditation, students graduating with the 60-hour degree are eligible to forego the 2000-hour post-graduate experience and take the National Counselor Examination (NCE) during the last semester of their coursework. Students that pass the NCE are then eligible to become a National Certified Counselor (NCC), a certification of the National Board for Certified Counselors
(NBCC).
To learn more about the Community Counseling program at Indiana
Wesleyan University or to apply
for admissions call or email the Graduate Admissions Office
at 1-800-895-0036 or graduate@indwes.edu. |
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