Counseling Program

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Has anyone told you that you're a good listener? Ever thought about working in a school? To learn more about the Graduate Program in Counseling click here....
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The Graduate Program in Counseling (GPC) prepares students to meet school counseling certification requirements. We support and follow national training standards and initiatives of the American School Counselor Association's National Model and National Standards, and the American School Counselor Association Ethical Standards for School Counselors (http://www.schoolcounselor.org/). We meet standards required by the New Hampshire Department of Education for the preparation of school counselors. The GPC is fully accredited by the New Hampshire Department of Education.
The professional education unit at the University of New Hampshire seeks to prepare practitioners who will become leaders in their own practice settings and within their profession, applying knowledge to improve education for all students and enrich the lives of clients. Immersion in subject matter, research, theory, and field-based experience provides a base for our graduates to make well-reasoned judgments in complex situations, render informed decisions, model exemplary practice, and take initiative for planned change. Students learn to establish caring environments which celebrate individual differences and backgrounds while fostering cooperation and educational improvement. We stress reflective critical inquiry as a mode of study and community-building as a means for promoting change. We value and support both our students' local practice and their broader leadership within the profession. The University of New Hampshire's Graduate Program in Counseling offers an M. Ed. degree for graduate study in counseling. This degree has core courses as well as specialized learning experiences. This degree program requires field internships appropriate to the student's professional goals. Curricula are designed to meet state and national educational standards for the preparation of school and human services counselors. The Graduate Program in Counseling is administratively housed within the Department of Education within the College of Liberal Arts, with campuses in both Durham, NH and Manchester, NH. Students may apply to one of the two campuses. The Durham campus offers both a full-time and a part-time degree program. The Manchester campus offers a part-time program designed to meet the needs of the working professional. All courses are offered in the late afternoon or early evening at both campuses. Program HistoryThe Graduate Program in Counseling (GPC) graduated its first Master of Education (MED) students in 1966. It was also necessary to expand the MED to 48 credits in order to match national standards, and this was accomplished in 2004. As of 2011 there have been over 1375 degrees granted through our program. An important mission of the university as a land-grant institution is to address the needs of the residents of the state. To meet this responsibility the GPC offers both full-time and part-time programs of study. The GPC on the Durham campus has a history of offering graduate courses in Manchester that dates to 1967. This 30+ year history led to the development of a UNHM part-time MED program that had its inception in 2003.
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Program Goals and Outcomes♦ Our graduates are knowledgeable of counseling as a field. Our graduates are able to demonstrate depth of knowledge of counseling theory and its professional sophisticated applications as a defined therapeutic process with a beginning, middle, and an end.
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