Clinical Mental Health Counseling (CACREP) – Arkansas

Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)

Arkansas requires applicants for this licensure have a CACREP or equivalent master’s with 60 credit hours, that includes a practicum and internship. Arkansas requires 1 credit hour in Technology Assisted Counseling, which is not built into this program. Students will need to take COUC 631 as an elective to meet this requirement.

Required Coursework:

• Professional Identity and Ethics
• Social and Cultural Diversity
• Human Growth and Development
• Career Development
• Helping Relations
• Group Work
• Assessment
• Research and Program Evaluation
• Practicum and/or Internships
• Abnormal Psychology/Psychopathology, including DSM and ICD
• Family and Relationship
• Technology Assisted Counseling

https://healthy.arkansas.gov/wp-content/uploads/ARBOEC-Rule.pdf