MSE Mental Health Counseling Program

Application Deadline:

• For those applying for Fall 2013: March 1
• For those applying for Fall 2014: February 1

Program Admissions Contact: Dr. Amelio D'Onofrio | amdonofrio@fordham.edu
FAQs For Prospective Students

Program Information

This rigorous, applied training program includes 60 course credits (in semester hours) plus a minimum 600-hour Mental Health Counseling Field Experience. The program has a practitioner-scientist orientation and includes a strong multicultural counseling emphasis.

The MS.Ed. can be completed full-time in two years (with summers) or part-time in three years (with summers). Graduates of the program are eligible to sit for the New York State Mental Health Counseling Licensure exam after the completion of 3,000 hours of supervised post-degree mental health counseling practice.

Program graduates will be eligible for employment in mental health clinics, community mental health centers, hospitals, non-profit counseling agencies, college and university campuses, corporate mental health services (e.g., employee assistance programs, personnel departments, mental health support units) and are eligible to open independent private practices after licensure.

Admission into the MS.ED. Program in Mental Health Counseling is highly competitive. Successful applicants often have high undergraduate grade point averages (3.3 or above on a 4.0 scale), work or volunteer experience in counseling or related fields, strong concurrent interests in both counseling practice and research, excellent letters of recommendation, and a strong commitment to serving urban and multicultural populations.

Sample Master’s Degree in Counseling Course Sequence

Full-Time-Time (60-credits) Counseling Students (Start Summer)

Note: Courses listed in bolded text need to be taken together

YEAR 1:
Summer Session 2
PSGE 5620: Found’ns of Prof Couns and Consult’n/ Intro I
PSGE 5622: Pre-Prac in Couns Process, Skills, and Techniques/ Pre-Prac I

Fall
PSGE 6630: Group Counseling
PSGE 6632: Practicum in Groups
*PSGE 6602: Human Development
*PSGE 6607: Assessment in Counseling

Spring
PSGE 5630: Counseling Theory and Practice
PSGE 5632:Pre-Practicum in Applications of Counseling Theory to Practice
PSGE 6640: Career Counseling
PSGE 6641: Practicum in Career Counseling

YEAR 2:
Fall
PSGE 6651: Field Experience I in Mental Health Counseling I (240 hours 2 days per week or 300 hrs 2.5 days per week)
PSGE 6650: Ethical/Professional Issues in Counseling
PSGE 6645: General Psychopathology
PSGE 7639: Theories of Family Intervention and Counseling

Spring
PSGE 6653: Field Experience II in Mental Health Counseling (240 hrs 2 days per week or 300 hrs 2.5 days per week)
*PSGE 6656: Multicultural Counseling
PSGE 0705: Comprehensive Examination

Summer I
PSGE 6655: Field Experience in Mental Health Counseling III (120 hrs 2 days per week)

*Can be taken in any order depending on what semester(s) courses are offered—Not part ofa module
Module: = 2 Courses that must be taken together with the same professor (except for PSGE 6650 and PSGE 6651)

NOTE: AREAS I, II, III, AND IV (see GSE Bulletin) MUST BE COMPLETED BEFORE (ARE PREREQUISITES TO) AREAS V AND VI AND PSGE 6652 – FIELD EXPERIENCE IN COUNSELING I – CAN ONLY BE TAKEN IN FALL (I.E., THUS, MUST TAKE SUMMER COURSES TO COMPLETE THESE PREREQUISITES TO BEGIN FIELD EXPERIENCE I IN FALL)