Sep 16, 2024  
2023-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2023-2025 Graduate Catalog

Addiction Counseling, M.S.


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The Graduate Program in Addiction Counseling is offered through the Department of Psychology, Counseling and Behavioral Health.  It is designed to prepare students for professional careers in Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counseling, with emphasis on substance abuse prevention and treatment.  It builds upon the institution’s undergraduate program in Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counseling and upon its graduate program in Clinical Mental Health Counseling Rehabilitation.

Program Requirements


Degree-seeking students are required to complete thirty-nine (39) credit hours of graduate work. Twenty-seven (27) credit hours are Core courses and twelve (12) credit hours are electives. Upon advancing into Candidacy students electing Option I must successfully complete a Comprehensive Examination and Research Paper; students electing Option II must successively complete courses Thesis I and Thesis II and write a Master’s Thesis. (Note: EDUC 581  is required of any graduate student who has not had a basic statistics course, with a “B” or better grade, either at the undergraduate or graduate level.)

Curriculum Guide


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