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MHC500Professional Issues, Ethics, and Laws in Clinical Mental Health Counseling

Course Prerequisites ToolSNHU MHC500 has 1 direct prerequisite, with 6 courses in its complete prerequisite tree, and is required by 1 other course.

Graduate · 3 credits

Focus on the role of the counseling profession in the variety of mental health systems, including community, state, and federal agencies, hospitals, and private-practice. Explore HIPAA and related laws, informed consent policies, internal procedures, populations served, relevant laws and state statutes, funding, and ethical considerations counselors’ role in the legal system, consultation, operationalizing of a practice, grants and program evaluations. Consider questions such as, ‘where do I fit in the profession?’ and ‘how does the counseling profession impose structure on the mental health system?’.

Prerequisite Tree

  • COU650Diagnosis of Emotional and Mental Disorders
    • COU610Assessment and Evaluation in Counseling
      • COU540Helping Skills and Techniques: Residency I
        • COU500The Counseling Profession: Orientation, Identity, and Ethics
        • COU510Human Development
      • COU600Research Methods and Program Evaluation
        • COU540Helping Skills and Techniques: Residency I
          • COU500The Counseling Profession: Orientation, Identity, and Ethics
          • COU510Human Development

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