Please visit the M.A. Counseling pages for information about the Palo AltoUniversity degree program that offers two areas of emphasis to prepare students for Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT) and Licensed Professinal Clinical Counselor (LPCC) licensing.
Emphasis Areas
Students in the M.A. Counseling program focus on developing and strengthening skills in four core areas as part of the curriculum: assessment, intervention/psychotherapy, research and critical thinking, and ethics and professional practice. The M.A. Counseling program offers flexibility, with students choosing to go full or part-time depending upon their schedules.
Launching in Fall 2014, the M.A. Counseling will offer three emphasis areas:
The MA in Counseling program prepares students to pursue licensure as a Marriage and Family Therapist, Professional Clinical Counselor, or both, depending upon their area of emphasis and their home state. The program is designed for professionals to retool their career paths or for recent graduates to expand their career options.
The intellectual, social and interpersonal skills that students develop while studying psychology are useful and marketable in a wide variety of professional fields. Psychology majors are prepared for virtually any role where knowledge of individual differences, personality, and social dynamics are needed. Today, such jobs are found throughout corporate and entrepreneurial businesses as well as in education, health and mental health care, and in the nonprofit sector.
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Among the unique features of the PAU-Stanford Psy.D. Consortium is the context in which students are trained. In addition to its research and teaching facilities, the Stanford University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is the home of the largest clinic at the Stanford University Medical Center. Over 40,000 patient visits per year are completed at the Department of Psychiatry.
The PAU-Stanford PsyD Consortium is a practitioner-scholar program in which supervised clinical experience is an integral component of doctoral training. The Consortium provides extensive practicum experience for doctoral students in diverse clinical settings throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. The Consortium is primarily generalist in approach but students have the opportunity to build their chosen specialities by training in varied practicum settings.
The PAU-Stanford Psy.D. Consortium requires all students to complete a minimum two-thousand (2,000) hour supervised professional internship. These hours fulfill the pre-doctoral internship required by the State of California and other states (subject to individual state licensing boards), among other requirements for eligibility to sit for the licensing examination. This portion of the curriculum is intended to ensure that every student receives practical experience germane to his/her development as a professional clinical psychologist.