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The Program
The GSEHD counseling faculty affirms its commitment to counseling as an effective, viable means of assisting individuals through normal development and in coping effectively with personal and social problems. National trends illustrate that the mental health field needs to improve the quality of services it provides to its increasingly diverse clientele. Counselors must expand upon their education and training to enhance their ability to effectively provide assessments, treatments, and interventions to this population. The counseling faculty uses a basic curriculum model to provide concurrent and ongoing exposure to the conceptual diversity frameworks and to informed practice. It is recognized that an interaction of these two components is essential.
The goal of the graduate certificate in counseling culturally and linguistically diverse persons is to expand counselors, teachers, and other professionals’ understanding of cultural and linguistic diversity within the workplace, school, and community settings, and, in the process, enhance their understanding of their own psychosocial identity.
The Pre-Master’s program is a 12-credit program designed to introduce the issues, theories, and techniques of community, rehabilitation, or school counseling, enhance knowledge and skills of working with a diverse population, and increase effectiveness in a community or school setting. Upon completion of this certificate program and completion of the Graduate Record Exam, students may wish to apply for a master’s degree from the University’s accredited community, rehabilitation or school counseling program.
Accreditation
The George Washington University’s graduate counseling programs are fully accredited by the appropriate counseling bodies. The MA programs in school and community counseling and the doctoral program in counseling are accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). CACREP is the nationally recognized agency for the accreditation of graduate programs in counseling. The Council on Rehabilitation Education (CORE) accredits the program in rehabilitation counseling. The MA program in school counseling is accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) and formally approved in the District of Columbia.
Credit Hours: 12 Program of Study
Information for this Degree/Program:
Spring, summer and fall admit available. Applications to the certificate program are to include a completed application form, two letters of recommendation, a 1-2 page statement of purpose, official transcripts from all institutions attended, a resume and a 2.75 GPA.
(Visit our Admissions Section for more general Admissions information.)
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Victoria A. Sardi, Ph.D.,
Project Coordinator
(202) 549-8036
vsardi@gwu.edu |
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Program Faculty:
Kenneth Hergenrather, Associate Professor of Counseling
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