Advanced Counseling

Chairperson
Dr. Catherine B. Roland

Graduate Program Coordinator
Dr. Catherine B. Roland

The Advanced Counseling Certificate Program is designed to fulfill state-level and national standards for Licensed Professional Counselors. This program meets the highest professional standards according to CACREP, The National Board for Certified counselors (NBCC), and the NJ Board of Marriage and Family Therapists.

Minimum Requirements: This is a post-Master's program, requiring a Master's in counseling or counselor education from an accredited U.S. college or university. This certificate is designed to supplement a Master's in Counseling degree with the credit hours necessary in attaining the 60 semester hour minimum required by the Professional Counselor Committee of the NJ Board of Marriage and Family Therapists. Included in the Master's degree must be a two-semester Counseling Internship experience of 600 total hours (300 each semester) in a non-school setting.

The States of New Jersey, New York, and 47 other states, require status as a Licensed Professional Counselor in order to work as a counselor in those states, in all settings that are non-school based. This certificate will provide the additional courses that are required, with the number and type of required credits being totally dependent upon the number of appropriate credits gained for the initial Master's degree.

Each matriculated certificate student will be advised on an individual basis in choosing the most appropriate courses for her/him. Students may be required to take additional credits to reflect current State of NJ and national requirements for the LPC. Course substitutions may be approved depending on transcript review of the Master's degree, by the LPC Program Advisor and The Graduate Admissions & Support Services.

Core Courses
COUN 604, Case Management and DSM Diagnosis in Counseling, 3 credits
COUN 579, Appraisal of Individual, 3 credits

Either
COUN 673,Gender Issues in Counseling, 3 credits
OR
COUN 568, Theories of Consultation, 3 credits

Electives. A minimum of 0 - 9 hours from this list of courses:
COUN 540, Introduction to Alcohol and Drug Counseling
COUN 570, Counseling Adults
COUN 584, Group Counseling: Theories and Practice
COUN 590, Counseling the Alcoholic/Substance Abuser
COUN 592, Theories of College Student Development
COUN 665, Ecotherapy: Applied Ecopsychology
COUN 672, Counseling the Aging

Internship Component
Students who have not completed a faculty-approved, 600 hour, community/non K-12 internship will also need to complete COUN654 Internship I and COUN 674 Internship II, in addition to required coursework as stated above.  This requirement is a mandate from the State Board of Professional Counselors in NJ.  Approval from the Advisor for the Post Master's Certificate Program must be given to apply for internship.

TOTAL Semester Hours: 9 - 21

Note: All students seeking admittance into the Post Master's certificates in Advanced Counseling and School Counseling must formally apply to the certificate programs by completing The Graduate Admissions & Support Services's admission application. Pre-admit status or non-degree status is not available for either of the two Counseling Post-Masters Certificates.

TO APPLY TO THIS PROGRAM, PLEASE VISIT http://www.montclair.edu/graduate/prospective/app.shtml