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Why Choose NEC to Earn Your
Human Services Degree?

Advanced Education to Advance Your Career:

Our master’s degree empowers you to build on your experience with courses that teach skills for effective leading and launching of human services programs

Extensive Counseling Preparation:

Develop your ability to work directly with clients in group or individual counseling sessions, and gain insight into how to reinforce the work of counselors in the services you run.

Programs Designed for Working Adults:

Our engaging learning environment provides the flexibility you need to balance earning a college degree with full-time work and family responsibilities.

Accelerated Format:

We offer multiple start dates so you can start when
you’re ready and four-credit courses so you can finish sooner.

HUMAN SERVICES OVERVIEW

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN HUMAN SERVICES​
Our MS program is designed to produce graduates who can:​
  • Understand the history and philosophy of counseling; professional roles, collaboration, professional organizations, credentialing, and ACA and AMHCA ethical standards;
  • Understand how the elements of diversity and societal factors impact individuals; while, gaining self-awareness regarding their culture and developing a personal understanding of how their own perspectives may affect the counseling and helping relationship;
  • Understand adaptive and maladaptive development, developmental crises, disability, psychopathology, and theories development and will apply theories of learning, personality development, and strategies for helping individuals throughout the lifespan in an ethical and developmentally appropriate manner;
  • Apply career development theories, decision-making models, vocational and occupational information to career development program planning, organization, implementation, administration, and evaluation;
  • Demonstrate basic and advanced counseling skills, including developing goals and interventions for the purpose of working directly with or indirectly in consultation with various stakeholders in various settings to improve the lives of those they serve;
  • Gain an experiential understanding of group theory, including group development, dynamics, and leadership styles for use in an ethical and legal manner in various types of groups;
  • Understand and apply statistical concepts, reliability, validity, multicultural issues in assessment, ethical and legal issues, as well as learn bio-psychosocial assessment, case conceptualization, principles of diagnosis, and use of the current DSM so that they have the ability to conduct individual and group assessment and evaluations;
  • Understand research methods, statistical analyses, needs assessment, and program evaluation, including qualitative and quantitative methods, technology uses, and ethical and legal issues, and;
  • Understand integrative systems of care; fiscal and legal issues; collaboration; community needs assessment; interventions and outreach; individuals and communities served; and clinical mental health counseling services.

Courses and Curriculum

Extend your knowledge of psychology, behavioral health, and human services administration to prepare to lead programs and organizations. You will complete 36 credits to graduate: 30 credits in the core curriculum, plus two electives.
MS Core Human Services Courses:
COUN 5000 - Introduction to Counseling
COUN 5000 - Introduction to Counseling
COUN 5530 - Group Counseling
COUN 5920 - Assessment and Assessment Techniques
COUN 6120 - Research Methods and Program Evaluation
COUN 6170 - Addictions Counseling
COUN 6190 - Social and Cultural Foundations
COUN 6350 - Career and Lifestyle Development
COUN 5910 - Professional Issues and Ethics in CMHC
COUN 6400 - Treatment Planning and Advanced Assessment
Electives (select two):
COUN 5150 - Human Sexuality
COUN 5160 - Advanced Seminar in Social and Cultural Foundations
COUN 6200 - Psychopharmacology and Advanced Psychopathology
COUN 7010 - Counseling Couples and Families

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