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Master of Arts in Counseling Student Handbook

Welcome

Counseling is an exciting profession with day-to-day variety, challenges, and opportunities to grow. Program faculty bring different backgrounds, interests, and areas of expertise to the graduate students in the Masters in Counseling Program at Boise State University.

Together we hope to provide you with a broad spectrum of research projects, practical experiences, teaching and learning styles, theoretical approaches, and professional goals. Through the next three years you will have the opportunity to develop awareness, knowledge, and skills necessary to be effective as a professional counselor working in a variety of settings. We offer cognates in school counseling and addiction counseling from which you will select one to complete.

This 60 semester-credit program has substance, rigor, and a great deal of practicality. It is both challenging and rewarding. The materials that follow in this Student Handbook are important to your progress, so please refer to this handbook carefully and often during your program of study.

SECTION I: GENERAL POLICIES

SECTION I: GENERAL POLICIES

SECTION II: PROGRAM POLICIES

SECTION II: PROGRAM POLICIES

SECTION III: COUNSELING PRACTICUM

SECTION III: COUNSELING PRACTICUM

SECTION IV: COUNSELING INTERNSHIP

SECTION IV: COUNSELING INTERNSHIP

SECTION V: CANDIDACY AND GRADUATION

SECTION V: CANDIDACY AND GRADUATION

SECTION VI: CULMINATING EXPERIENCE

SECTION VI: CULMINATING EXPERIENCE

Counseling Professional Organizations and Resources

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