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What are the Degree Requirements?

1. 60 credit hours of required and elective courses
2. Written and oral comprehensive examinations
3. 700 hours of supervised field experience:
   • A one-semester Practicum of at least 100 hours (approximately 6-8 hours/week), 40 of which have to be direct-client contact
• A calendar year of at least 600 hours of Internship (approximately 12-16 hours/week), 300 of which have to be direct-client contact

*No thesis required

Required Courses (48 credits*)

Course	Title	Credits
PCC/PCMF 500	Introduction to Counseling and Psychotherapy	3
PCC/PCMF 501	Professional Orientation and Ethical Practice of Counseling	3
PCC/PCMF 502	Counseling Laboratory I	3
PCC/PCMF 503	Psychopathology	3
PCC/PCMF 504	Human Behavior: A Developmental Perspective	3
PCC/PCMF 506	Basic Principles of Research Design, Statistics, Program Development and Evaluation	3
PCC 509	Assessment in Clinical and Career Counseling	3
PCC/PCMF 512	Addictions Counseling	3
PCC/PCMF 602	Advanced Counseling Lab	3
PCC/PCMF 612	Group Processes	3
PCC/PCMF 619	Multicultural Counseling and Therapy	3
PCC 644	Career Counseling	3
PCC 660**	Counseling Practicum	3
PCC 661**	Professional/Case Practicum Seminar	3
PCMF 680/681/682**	Internship
PCMF 690/691/692**	Professional Seminar	9
Total Credits		48

*Beginning Fall 2013, the course "Systems, Systemic Thinking, and Ethics" (PCMF 505) will be a required course, for a total of 51 required course credits. 

**The Professional Seminar is taken in conjunction with the Internship.

Electives and Minors (12 credits*)
For students in the Professional Clinical Counseling Program, there are several choices to complete the additional 12 credits (4 courses) required for the 60-credit degree.  Students can take any of the elective courses offered by the Master’s Program – refer to the Graduate Catalog for course descriptions.  Alternatively, students can choose from one of the following minors:

• Marriage and Family Therapy
• Addictions Counseling
• Industrial Organizational Counseling

Minors in Marriage and Family Therapy Choose 4 Courses:
Course	Title	Credits
PCMF505	Systems, Systemic Thinking, and Ethics	3
PCMF614	Working with Families	3
PCMF624	Marital and Couples Therapy	3
PCMF634	Addictions and the Family	3 3

Minor in Addictions Counseling
Course	Title	Credits
PCC512	Addictions Counseling	3
PCC610	Cognitive Behavioral Approaches	3
PCMF634	Addictions and the Family	3
PCC/PCMF647	Motivational Interviewing	3
Minor in Industrial Organizational Counseling
Course	Title	Credits
PCC533	Business Basics for I/O Psychology	3
PCC653	Organization Interventions	3
PCC654	Issues in Organizational Training	3
PCC659	Assessment in I/O	3

*Beginning Fall 2013, only 3 elective courses (9 credits) will be required to complete the 60-credit degree.  Students opting to minor in Addictions Counseling or Industrial Organizational Counseling and Consulting will choose 3 courses from the list.

Field Placement (Practicum and Internship)
Practicum and Internship are "hands-on" experiences that provide students with the opportunity to integrate theory and practice while under direct supervision. The focal activity is face-to-face assessment and therapy with clients; however, the larger training experience includes a variety of activities including case planning, record keeping, attending staff team meetings and didactics, and interacting with professionals from other disciplines. 

Students receive individual advisement to select a training site that best matches their interests and career goals. Students can apply to one of La Salle's affiliated agencies, or they can establish their own placement that meets La Salle's training requirements. La Salle has affiliations with a limited number of agencies that offer evening and weekend hours; students working full-time and/or who have restricted schedules are encouraged to speak with their adviser about finding a field placement site well in advance.

While students are in the Internship, they enroll in a co-requisite seminar to discuss professional and ethical issues as well as view video recordings of their clinical work.  The seminar meets once a week in the evenings.

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Program offered at:

• Main Campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Bucks County Center in Newtown, Pennsylvania
• Montgomery County Center in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania

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