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Counseling Psychology Master's Program

Program Overview
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Email Questions about Master's Program: dmollen@twu.edu
 

Information and Forms for Current Students:

Course Rotation (pdf) Updated 4/27/07
Suggested Course Sequence (pdf)
Master's Handbook Under Construction--check back soon!
Practicum Manual (pdf)

Forms:

PSY 6991 Supervised Field Work Evaluation (pdf)
Student Request Form (Word document)
Request For Transfer Credit (pdf)
Master's Degree Plan (Word document)

Program Overview

The master's degree program in Counseling Psychology provides systematic training within a practitioner-scientist model to prepare students for professional mental health practice in a wide range of settings.  The program has a particular emphasis on developing clinicians with a strong understanding of individuals and families within their gendered, familial, and socio-cultural contexts.  Graduates of the program are expected to be conversant with and competent in the diversity-sensitive applications of both individual-level interventions based on cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, and humanistic theories, as well as those interventions emerging from a variety of family-systemic perspectives.  Applicants should be aware that, as is typical of graduate training in professional psychology, part of one's development as a psychologist entails personal growth in addition to academic learning.  As such, students may be expected to share appropriate personal material in various classes and practicum situations.  One example might be the discussion of a genogram in a family psychology class.  Program graduates enter the marketplace with a degree that is exceptionally flexible, allowing them to pursue state-level credentials as Licensed Psychological Associates (LPA), Licensed Professional Counselors (LPC), and/or Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFT).

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Application Procedures

DEADLINE is February 1 for Fall Admission.  Note: Completed application materials RECEIVED by February 1 will be considered. Please note that it is the applicant's responsibility to check with Student Records to ensure that all materials (GRE scores, all transcripts, application for admission) are received by the deadline.

Updated: April 18, 2008.

Applicants are responsible for ensuring their materials have been received by the respective offices (Student Records for Items 1-4; the Counseling Psychology program for Items 5-7). We strongly encourage you to contact Veronica Valenzuela in Student Records (940-898-3076/1-866-809-5130) in advance of the February 1^st deadline to ensure your materials have been received. Applicants are also encouraged to supply their social security numbers when taking the GRE; doing so will help facilitate the process of your scores reaching Student Records in a timely and efficient manner.

Applicants must have received, or be candidates for, a baccalaureate degree (preferably with a major in psychology) from an accredited college or university. Applicants must submit seven different items.

Items one through four should be sent to:

          Office of Student Records Processing

            Texas Woman’s University

            P.O. Box 425589

            Denton, TX 76204

            (940) 898-3076

1.  A standard application form is required. Admission requirements for all psychology master’s programs are specified in the Graduate Catalog. The catalog and graduate application form (only one application is necessary) are available on-line from:

http://www.twu.edu/admissions/apply.htm

(The Department of Psychology and Philosophy requires only the general graduate school application.)

2. A non-refundable processing fee of $30 ($50 for international students) in check or money order is required with all new graduate applications.

3. *Official transcripts from every college/university attended that show:

    (a) Completion of a minimum of 18 hours of undergraduate psychology pre-

         requisites including:

Introduction to General Psychology
Life-Span Developmental Psychology
Statistics
Experimental Psychology
Psychology of Learning
(And One Psychology Elective)

    (b) A 3.0 (B) overall GPA or higher in the last 60 semester hours of all 

         undergraduate courses, and
    (c) A GPA of 3.5 for all psychology courses taken.

*NOTE: official transcripts from all universities must be included (e.g., community college transcripts, study abroad transcripts, attending more than one university, graduate transcripts.) The Office of Student Records processes applications only when all official transcripts from all colleges attended have been received. Missing transcripts will render your application “incomplete.”

4. Graduate Record Examination Scores. A Quantitative-Verbal total recommended score of at least 1000 on the general aptitude portions of the Graduate Record Examination (V=500, Q=500 is desirable).  Analytical Writing scores will also be considered.
 

Items five through seven should be addressed to:

Dr. Debra Mollen

Counseling Psychology Admissions Coordinator

Department of Psychology-Philosophy
P.O. Box 425470, Denton, TX 76204
 

5. A brief cover letter indicating: (a) your intent to apply to the Master's program in Counseling Psychology (please specify your desire to be admitted to this program in this letter); (b) a list of ALL undergraduate-level psychology courses that you have taken and what grades you have received in those courses; and (c) your GPA for all of your undergraduate level psychology courses (or your “Psych GPA”; please calculate the GPA for psych courses that you have taken and include this number in your cover letter).

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6. Three Letters of Recommendation from persons who are familiar with applicant's potential for graduate study in psychology, preferably academic references. (No special forms required.)

7. A 2-3 Page Goals Statement about the applicant's professional goals and aspirations in the field of psychology as well as some important autobiographical information.