COUN 555 - Clinical Mental Health Counseling

3 Credit(s)

This course focuses on issues in clinical mental health counseling including professionalism, roles and responsibilities, leadership, and management issues. The roles, responsibilities, and functions of the clinical mental health counselor will be discussed, showing the interrelatedness of community mental health counseling and other therapeutic professions (e.g., hospitals, law enforcement, and human services). In addition, the theoretical and historical framework within which the clinical mental health counselor has functioned in the past, the present, and the future will be explored.