纽约州立大学普拉茨堡分校

In addition to learning the knowledge and skills required to be a community health counselor — with an emphasis on counselor ethics — you’ll also acquire advocacy, case management, social and public policy skills. This Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs(CACREP) accredited program was created in 2006 and is approved by the New York State Education Department as a license-eligible academic program.

What Will I Learn?

Learn a combination of theoretical and skill-based approaches to serving clients
Work at a professional site and with clients and students through our specialized internships
Internships are available in a variety of settings specially chosen to match your degree program
Gain relevant work experience while completing your degree requirements
Learn in a supervised setting

What is Unique About Our Program?

The program focuses on the preparation of professionals who have the commitment, knowledge, skills, attitudes, values and self-awareness to offer quality counseling services. Can be pursued on a full-time or part-time basis up to the point of internship.

The counseling program faculty recognize and stress:

The importance of a multifaceted approach to the preparation of counselor candidates, emphasizing knowledge and skills about self, processes and content in counseling interactions.
An open stance on counseling approaches rather than providing specialization in any one point of view.
Candidates to become professionals in the broadest sense of the term. This includes preparing candidates to take their places as fully contributing members of the counseling profession and of society as a whole.
The inter-relatedness of the individual, the family and social systems.
Excellence in teaching, supervision of students’ clinical practice and scholarly work and faculty advisement.

What Are My Career Opportunities?

What kind of careers does counselor education prepare you for?

The mental health counseling degree allows you to work effectively in a number of work settings such as:

Community mental health clinics
Child and family counseling centers
Youth intervention programs
Adventure-based counseling programs
Mental health units in regional medical centers
Emergency mental health centers
Day treatment programs
Community residences
Halfway houses
Therapeutic communities
Probation and corrections
In-patient treatment facilities for substance abuse and mental health
Community education and prevention programs

The mission of the Counselor Education Department at SUNY Plattsburgh is to educate persons to become professional counselors and educators who have the commitment, knowledge, skills and self-awareness to offer quality counseling and advising, developmental and prevention services to individuals, groups and families in educational and community settings. The Counselor Education Department is further dedicated to preparing professional counselors who have a working knowledge of ethical standards of practice, have developed cultural self-awareness and skills for working effectively with diverse populations and have committed to ongoing professional development.