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Master of Science in Counseling Psychology Program Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies Department of Counseling and Applied Educational Psychology Bouvé College of Health Sciences Northeastern University Boston 1

Admission Interviews March 4, 2016  Welcome Everyone!  Introductions  The MSCP Program  Your schedule for today 2

Introductions  Program Faculty You Will Meet Today  Dr. William Sanchez, Director  Dr. Tracy Robinson-Wood  Dr. Rachel Rodgers  Dr. Jessica Edwards George  Dr. Deb Franko  Dr. Todd Kates 3

Depar artment nt of Appl plie ied Psych cholog ogy  Dr. Karin Lifter, Department Chair  Administrative Coordinator  Diane Sheehan  Department Staff  Cherish Grant-Dixon  Assisting Today  Ms. Ann Conducy 4

The University Context of Our Program Northeastern University Bouvé College Nine other of Health colleges Sciences School of School of School of Health Nursing Pharmacy Professions 5

School of Health Professions Department of Applied Psychology School Ph.D. School College MSCP School Early Psychology Ph.D. Student MS Counseling Intervention MS Counseling Development CAGS MS CAGS 6

Some Numbers  We aim for a first year class of about 15 - 20 students;  The program is made up of:  First and second year full-time students;  Part-time students;  CAGS students who are predominantly part-time  We have approximately 50 students at any given time in the program  The majority of our students are full-time. 7

The Feminist Ecological Model Macro — Global - Political / Economic - Environmental - Distribution of Resources - Values - World Views Planetary / Climatic - Ideologies Group (Exo) — Regional, State, National - Educational / Political Systems Macro and Structures - Social Institutions - Legal / Political Systems Exo - Professional / Disciplines - Religion History Relational (Micro) — Immediate face to face interactions and influences - Family Individual - School - Work - Church - Neighborhood - Friends Contextual Identities of the Individual (Individual) — Multiple dimensions of the self interacting over time - Biological - Emotional - Cognitive - Spiritual - Intuitive / Creative From: Ballou, M., Matsumoto, A., & Wagner, M. (2002). Towards a feminist ecological theory of human nature: Theory 8 Building in response to real-world dymamics. In M.Ballou & L.S. Brown, (Eds.), Rethinking Mental Health and Disorder: A Feminist Perspective, pp. 99 – 141). New York: Guilford Press.

Our Program: MS in Counseling Psychology  Course work requirements: 60 semester hour program  Clinical work requirements:  150 hour Practicum Experience  600 hour internship experience  Electives: 1. General; 2. Concentrations  Three courses which can be taken as general electives or used to study within a concentration  Full time study requires four to five courses a semester, plus two courses in summer between first and second year  Part-time programs are tailored to students, although clinical placements are more difficult to develop and are the responsibility of the student as well as attending some early afternoon scheduled classes. The Program meets pre-degree licensing requirements for mental health counselors in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 9

The Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies  For Students with a highly related Master’s Degree, but not meeting counseling requirements  30 Semester hour course of study including  Eight didactic courses  May Require a Practicum (100) depending on student background  Two internship courses (600 hour internship)  Individually tailored to fulfill student professional and licensing goals 10

Required Courses  Counseling Theory in an Ecological  Individual Interventions Context  Community Counseling Psychology  Introduction to Assessment  Ethics & Professional Development  Research Evaluation & Data  Group Counseling Analysis;  Substance Use and Treatment  Understanding Culture & Diversity  Seminar in Feminist Psychology  Life Span Counseling  Clinical Skills  Vocational, Ed. & Career  Practicum Counseling  MSCP Internship I  Psychopathology & Treatment  MSCP Internship II Planning  Three general electives or three courses for concentration 51 Semester Hours 11

General Elective Courses  Groups: Dynamics &  Brief Therapies Leadership  Reality Therapy  Infant, Child & Adolescent  Community Based Treatment Development  History & Systems  Human Sexuality Psychology  Family Counseling  Advanced Multicultural Intervention Psychology  Child & Adolescent  Advanced Clinical Psychopathology Interventions  Counseling Strategies for  Advanced Theories of Children & Adolescents Psychotherapy 9 Semester Hours 12

Concentrations  Students can decide to use their three elective courses to study within a concentration:  Gender, Culture, and Political Psychology  Child and Adolescent  Forensic Counseling  Early Intervention  Health Psychology 13

Concentration Courses Forensic sic C Counse selin ing Ch Chil ild an and d Ado dolescent  Criminology  Infant, Child & Adolescent Development  Juvenile Justice  Family Counseling & Collaboration  Forensic Psychology  Child & Adolescent  Gender, Crime & Justice Psychopathology  Human Sexuality  Race and the Criminal Justice System  Counseling Children & Adolescents  Brief Therapies  Victimology  Youth Gangs  Brief Therapies  Children in America: Social &  Other courses, such as in Policy Perspectives Sociology  Other courses, such as in Nursing and Sociology 14

Concentration Courses Gender, C , Cult lture re & & Poli litical l Healt lth P h Psycholog hology Psycholog hology  Human Sexuality  Feminist Theory; or  Feminist Methodologies  Health Issues  Brief Therapies  Brief Therapies  Advanced Multicultural  Process of Aging  Feminist Psychology  Introduction to Clinical  Gender, Crime & Justice Neuropsychology  Race, Gender & Class: Feminist Views  Family Violence  Seminar in Health  Women, Men and Social Change Psychology; or  Sociology of Mental Health and Illness  Behavioral Medicine Course  Courses through the Graduate at B.U. School of Medicine Consortium in Women’s Studies  Other courses offered in  Other courses such as in Sociology, Criminal Justice, Political Science, Bouvé Health Sciences Afro-American Studies, and Latino 15 Studies

Concentration Courses Ear arly Int Inter ervent ntio ion  Early Intervention: Family Systems  Early Intervention: Infant/Toddler Development, Risk & Disability  Early Intervention: Assessment & Intervention  Early Intervention: Planning and Evaluating Early Intervention Services  Early Intervention Practicum 1 & 2 16

Suggested Sequence, Full-Time, Year 1 Fall S l Semester, 1 , 1 st st . Ye Year Spri ring S Semester, 1 , 1 st st . Ye Year  Counseling Theory in an  Understanding Culture & Ecological Context Diversity  Introduction to Assessment  Psychopathology & Treatment Planning  Vocational, Ed., & Career Counseling  Group Counseling  Individual Interventions  Practicum  Clinical Skills 17

Suggested Sequence Sum ummer (B (Between Fir een First and and Sec econd nd Y Year ear)  Substance Use and Treatment  Elective (Brief Therapies, Family Counseling, Reality Therapy) 18

Suggested Sequence, Full Time, Year 2 Fall S l Semester 2 r 2 nd nd . Ye Year Spri ring S Semester 2 2 nd nd . Y . Year  Life Span Counseling  Research Design and Data Analysis; or  Ethics & Professional Development  Qualitative Methods in Health & Illness, elective  Seminar in Feminist Psychology  Community Counseling Psychology  MSCP Internship I  MSCP Internship II  Elective  Elective 19

Clinical Experiences Pract cticu cum Intern rnshi hip  Spring Semester First Year  600 hours  150 (100 hours required for  20 hours a week for two licensure semesters (Fall & Spring of 2 nd . year  15 weeks, 8 – 10 hours  On Site Clinical Supervisor  Practicum, university supervisor  Internship, university supervisor  Individual Supervision at University  Formal Contract  Done At University Through  University Insurance Practicum Course and Community Experience in non-clinical services settings 20

Today  Interview with a faculty member  Department Offices at International Village  Meet current first and second year students  Meet other faculty beyond interviewer  Lunch 21

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Additional Information  Responding to Graduate School  Admissions decisions will be sent out through the Bouvè Graduate School  Correspondence with The Graduate School regarding acceptance  Fall registration information received in Summer  Orientation in Fall 23