Master of Arts in Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling (M.A.)
Purpose
The Master of Arts in Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling (CLRC) is a 60-hour graduate-level online program designed to prepare students for state licensure as a Professional Counselor (LPC). The faculty provides quality professional training of clinical rehabilitation counselors from a faith-based perspective.
Our mission is to produce ethically and spiritually aware clinical rehabilitation counselors who possess the knowledge, values, skills, and personal disposition to promote mental health, holistic wellness, and successful employment outcomes of clients with disabilities and chronic illness across diverse populations. Our mission is achieved in significant measure by offering rigorous academic programs, dynamic interaction with mentors and faculty, and carefully structured practicums and internships.
Program Learning Outcomes
The student will be able to:
- Apply the ethical and professional principles, standards, and expectations that are integral to a professional counselor's role and identity.
- Apply the social and cultural awareness, knowledge, and skills required to work with diverse populations at all developmental stages across the lifespan in a culturally sensitive and ethical manner.
- Assess the individual and group counseling skills necessary to establish and build a therapeutic relationship and will form a preliminary theoretical framework when counseling individuals at all developmental stages across the lifespan.
- Use developmentally appropriate assessment relevant to the client’s academic/education, career, personal, and social development and identify ethical, social, and cultural factors related to assessment.
- Evaluate research and apply it to their counseling practice in accordance with best practices, and identify social and cultural implications for interpreting and reporting results.
- Integrate faith and spirituality into counseling where appropriate in an ethically competent manner.
- Synthesize rehabilitation and counseling theories into a comprehensive bio-psychosocial-spiritual theoretical approach that informs assessment, diagnosis, functional evaluation, and individualized treatment planning for diverse individuals with disabilities and co-occurring mental health conditions across individual, group, and family settings.