Liberty meets education requirements.
Clinical Mental Health Counseling (CACREP) – Indiana
Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC)
Indiana requires applicants for this licensure have a master’s in counseling, with practicum and internship. One Contextual Dimensions of Mental Health Counseling class is required, which is not built into this program. Students can meet this requirement by taking EDCO 705 as an elective and can register through Academic Advising.
Required Coursework:
- Human growth and development
- Social and cultural foundations in counseling
- Helping relationship, including counseling theory and practice
- Group dynamics, processes, counseling, and consultation
- Lifestyle and career development
- Assessment and appraisal of individuals
- Research and program evaluation
- Professional orientation and ethics
- Foundations of mental health counseling
- Contextual dimensions of mental health counseling
- Knowledge and skills for the practice of mental health counseling and psychotherapy
- Clinical instruction
- Practicum: 100 hours
- Internship: 600 hours