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Follow Your Calling to Serve and Uplift People and Communities

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE

If you are driven to help the individuals and communities around you, Stevenson’s Counseling and Human Services program will help you turn your passion into a career. Understand how individuals—from infants to seniors—and families develop and function across racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic spectrums, and learn how to provide the services they need to thrive.

At every step of the way, you receive personalized support and guidance from expert faculty with deep experience across the counseling and human services field.

Align Your Degree with Your Career Goals

We offer an interdisciplinary approach and two distinct academic tracks to tailor your coursework to meet your interests and career goals:

• Addictions and Mental Health Counseling
• Child, Adolescent, and Family Services

Field Placements for Real-World Experience

As a Counseling and Human Services major, you’ll gain over 450 hours of supervised, in-depth experience in the field: 90 hours in your junior year and 360 hours in your senior year. This extensive real-world experience will help you develop professionally and master the practices employers and graduate programs look for—all before you graduate.

A Foundation for Counseling Credentials

Our program’s rigorous coursework, focus on skill development, and field experience create a strong foundation for your success. After graduation, you will be well-prepared to pursue your career goals—whether you choose to enter the workforce or continue your education to pursue a Master of Social Work (MSW) or other advanced degree or professional license, including, but not limited to:  

• Certified Associate Counselor – Alcohol and Drug (CAC-AD)
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker – Certified (LCSW-C)*
• Licensed Graduate Professional Counselor (LGPC)*
• Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC)*
• National Certified Counselor (NCC)*

*License requires a master’s degree.

The Counseling and Human Services and Psychology programs are distinct but related majors within Stevenson’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Click here to learn more about each program and to discover which program is your best fit based on your interests, aspirations, and career goals.

Earn Your Advanced Degree at Stevenson

Choose Stevenson’s Bachelor’s to Master’s Option to graduate from with a master’s in as little as five years. Counseling and Human Services graduates can choose to pursue a variety of graduate degree’s including our Master’s in Healthcare Management or Master’s in Community-Based Education and Leadership. If you’re interested in becoming a clinical psychologist and providing evidence-based, culturally competent clinical services to individuals and communities, Stevenson also offers a Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) in Clinical Psychology.

Graduates of the Counseling and Human Services program will:

• ¶ºÄÌÊÓƵ research findings to analyze common problems encountered in the counseling & human services field and develop appropriate solutions.
• Develop individualized professional development goals and objectives, based on comprehensive self-evaluation and feedback from faculty and supervisors.
• Exhibit consistent professional attitudes and behaviors in applied counseling & human services settings.
• Exhibit culturally sensitive behavior in professional human services settings.
• Exhibit effective and appropriate interpersonal skills in professional counseling & human services settings.
• Synthesize and appropriately apply key concepts, methods and values in counseling & human services to professional situations, independently and with minimal supervision.

Counseling and Human Services Program Outcomes