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Professional Counseling and Psychology, Master's of Philosophy in Education Program
The Professional Counseling and Psychology, Master of Philosophy in Education (MPE) Program is designed to lead to professional licensure at the state and national levels, and can be completed on a full- or part-time basis. Detailed information is available at our MPE FAQ Page.
The Professional Counseling and Psychology (PCAP) program. This program involves an additional year immediately after the one-year Psychological Services M.S.Ed. Program’s year to advance mastery of professional counseling, clinical assessment, and psychological consultation to address the emotional and behavioral health challenges facing individuals and group clientele in school, neighborhood, and community settings. Emphasis is placed on supervised clinical skills–building. This is a 10-course-unit program with a required oral clinical comprehensive examination and a written report of that examination.
The PCAP curriculum prepares graduates for mid-level administrative and direct-service clinical, assessment, and consultation professional positions in education and mental health fields in public and private institutions, hospitals and health organizations, and state and federal criminal justice systems. Although it also prepares students to pursue further graduate psychology study at the doctoral level, students who matriculate for the M.Phil.Ed. ordinarily will be most interested in earning the M.Phil.Ed. to enhance their career prospects at this level, and will not be inclined to seek more advanced study at the doctoral level.
Graduates will be prepared to design, apply, and interpret interventions for behavioral and emotional difficulties in school, home, and community settings; to provide psychological consultation to teachers, counselors, mental health professionals, and criminal justice professionals; and to address situations of life-course decision-making, family conflicts, academic engagement difficulties, and emotional distress as direct-
service professionals or as administrative and supervisory professionals. The curriculum is designed to prepare graduates to be eligible for licensure in professional counseling (LPC).
Course Work consists of a minimum of 10 courses immediately following the one-year Psychological Services M.S.Ed. Program’s year, or after completion of a conventional 48 credit master's degree that includes advanced psychological counseling, career psychology, program evaluation, and completion of an oral and written clinical case examination.
Planned Program of Study
The Apprenticeship/Internship consists of six hundred hours (600) of clinical training that is supervised by a licensed counseling related professional.
The Independent Clinical Examination Requirement is a 1-2 hour in-depth oral case presentation of individual, family, group, or community clientele. The presentation should include family and individual background and history, audio-or video-tape demonstration of clinical practice, appropriate diagnostic, assessment, and clinical course of treatment, prognosis and appropriate referral or after-care services. The written report should cover these areas as well. A form outlining the relevant categories of the oral examination and the written report will be distributed to candidates at the beginning of the semester.
A 3600 hour Internship Post-Degree is required for licensure as a Professional Licensed Counselor.
Nichelle Davis Ahmaddiya, M.S.Ed., University of Pennsylvania
Theodore R. Burnes, Ph.D.,
Universityof
California
,
Santa Barbara
Douglas A. Frye, Ph.D.,
Yale
University
Ilene C. Rosenstein, Ph.D., University of Missouri–Columbia
Dianne S. Salter, Ph.D.,
Adelphi
University
, J.D.,
Rutgers
School
of Law
Amy Sichel, Ph.D.,
University
of
Pennsylvania
Diana Slaughter-Defoe, Ph.D.,
University
of
Chicago
Margaret Beale Spencer, Ph.D.,
University
of
Chicago
Jeanne L. Stanley, Ph.D.,
University
of
Pennsylvania
Daniel A. Wagner, Ph.D.,
University
of
Michigan
For further information, please contact:
Evelyn A. Jordan, Division Coordinator
University of Pennsylvania
Graduate School of Education
Applied Psychology-Human Development Programs
3700 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6216
evelynj@gse.upenn.edu |
