Contribute to Humanity through your Online Counseling Degree

The word “counselor” often makes people think of your high school counselor, or perhaps of the leader at a summer camp, but the counseling field involves a wide range of human services from marital counseling to youth counseling to counseling for prevention of substance abuse. Counseling today is almost as specialized as medicine. Through your online degree program, you can decide what age and type of people you would most enjoy working with. There is such a need for qualified counselors that you will be able to find work with any choice you make. continued below »

Featured schools offering Online courses:

Liberty University offers a Master of Arts in Professional Counseling degree program. The program is designed to provide students with a strong foundation of the knowledge and skills they need to work effectively as a professional counselor. Students receive specific training that is designed to lead to licensure and national certification. Coursework is comprised of Council for Accreditation of Counseling and other related educational programs.

Capella University offers a Master of Science in Human Services programs with specializations in Counseling Studies, Marital, Couple and Family Counseling/Therapy, Mental Health Counseling - CACREP Accredited, School Counseling, and more. These specializations are designed to teach students how to apply systems-based counseling theories and research methodology in practice. Some program specialties do have residency requirements.

Walden University offers a Ph.D. in Human Services with a Specialization in Counseling program. The program is research intensive and provides students with the action-oriented research skills they need to succeed in such roles as licensed independent social worker or social services manager. Coursework includes developmental theories, biopsychosocial stress, human diversity and behaviors, and more.

The University of Phoenix Online offers a Bachelor of Science in Human Services/Management degree program. This diverse program combines instruction in management skills of planning and organizing with instruction in counseling, social work, and psychology. Coursework includes Organizational Behavior, Organization Psychology, Cultural Diversity and Special Populations, and a whole lot more.

Counseling degree can be as advanced as you want them, from the Bachelors, to the Masters, to the Grauate school degree programs. Of course, the higher your degree, the more you can expect to be paid and the more you will be qualified to do. For example, a person with a doctoral degree might eventually by the supervisor of a mental health or christian counseling center. The following descriptions will give you just an idea of the many possible directions your degree could take you.

Human Services—Counseling
Courses focus on healthy life adjustment, understanding human diversity, and a comprehensive synthesis of theoretical approaches (social, behavioral and development) to human growth.

Leadership Coaching
Executive coaching is a fast growing field. With a degree in leadership coaching, you will learn how to apply psychological theory to organizational leadership to help leaders in industry, government and education develop their professional and personal skills and apply them to enhance their operations.

School Counseling
No longer just people who help students choose their course, school counselors are responsible for a wide range of services which often include interaction between the school and the families. The school counselor may be the first source to which teachers, families or students turn when family or personal problems threaten a student’s education. A degree in school counseling will enable you to deliver and manage school programs and to act as a leader who can advocate for the needs of students.

Marital Couple and Family Counseling
With all of our advances in technology, we have not solved the problem of the dysfunctional family. In fact, the fast paced life style, the likelihood that both parents will have careers, and the peer pressure faced by young people all contribute to a greater than ever need for qualified family counseling. With a focus on families, your counseling degree will emphasize theories of relationship building that will help families and couples achieve their dreams without sacrificing themselves.

Rehabilitation Counseling
A focus on rehabilitation counseling will enable you to work with individuals and groups who must cope with various disabilities—both genetic and those resulting from accidents or illness. You will learn how to plan, develop and evaluate services for the disabled within a community.

Salaries for Counselors
School counselors and social workers make from $31,000 to $68,000, depending on the years of experience. A person with a doctoral degree can expect an additional $3,000 to $4,000 per year depending on geographic area and actual job title. The median salary for vocational counselors is $54,000.

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