Help students reach their fullest potential
A three-year cohort program for working professionals and teachers in the Lower Mainland and surrounding districts.
Are you interested in:
- Helping students overcome obstacles and develop strategies to live up to their highest potential?
- Helping your school district respond to the growing need for School Counsellors?
- Advancing your career by completing UBC’s internationally recognized 48-credit MEd program?
- Participating in a program that incorporates small-group clinical experience (one day or evening per week during the second year) in addition to a practicum experience?
- Building relationships and interacting with colleagues as part of a community of learners?
When this program is completed you will be able to work with a variety of issues concerning adults and adolescents as well as keeping current with ethical issues in the field of counselling psychology.
The UBC Counselling Psychology program’s mission is to study, examine and reflect on the methodology and grounds for knowledge in counselling psychology, especially with respect to its validity, applicability, and limits.
As a professional program with a mandate to educate counsellors, it emphasizes both training in techniques (skills) and knowledge for specific purposes determined by time and place, rather than knowledge for it’s own sake.
PROPOSED SCHEDULE
Schedule TBD
The UBC MEd in Counselling Psychology consists of 48 credits of course work, typically completed in three years. The proposed schedule is:
Courses and schedule are subject to change.
| START DATE |
COURSE TITLE |
COURSE CODE |
| July 2021 | Introduction to Research in Education | EDUC 500 |
| Sept. 2021 | Individual and Family Counselling Theories and Intervention | CNPS 578C |
| Jan. 2022 | Counselling Adolescents | CNPS 504/514 |
| May 2022 | Ethics | CNPS 586 |
| July 2022 | Group Counselling | CNPS 564 |
| Sept. 2022 – Apr. 2023 |
Small Group Clinic | CNPS 588 |
| Sept. 2022 | Career | CNPS 574 |
| Jan. 2023 | (May be a practicum) | CNPS 598 |
| May 2023 | Assessment | CNPS 532 |
| July 2023 | Family Counselling | CNPS 545 |
| Sept. 2023 – Apr. 2024 |
Practicum (individual schools) | CNPS 598 |
| Jan. 2024 | Program Development & Evaluation | CNPS 584 |
All students must meet the requirements for this program, which include:
- Acceptance by the UBC Faculty of Graduate Studies.
- A completed four-year undergraduate degree with a minimum average of 76% on all senior-level credits.
- Three academic letters of reference, one of which must be from a professor, that speaks to your ability to undertake graduate work and your appropriateness for this program.
- A letter of intent stating your career goals, your background, and your reasons for seeking an advanced degree.
- A minimum of three years of experience working in a helping capacity with children, adolescents, or adults. Preference will be given to applicants with sustained, relevant work experience.
In addition, you must meet the prerequisites:
- CNPS 362 - Basic Interviewing Skills
- CNPS 363 - Career Counselling
- CNPS 365 - Introduction to Theories of Counselling
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- Completion of a 3-credit course in Learning and a 3-credit course in Abnormal Psychology. Equivalency information is available here.
(NOTE: Most teachers have already completed the equivalent of Learning and Abnormal Psychology courses).
Please fill out the Supplementary Form, and submit it with your application.
Application Status: Pending
Application deadline: TBD
Details on how to apply will be posted once the cohort is approved and applications open.
Tuition
Refer to the UBC Calendar "Master of Education (Counselling Psychology) (program off-campus)" for confirmed and up-to-date fees.
Tuition fees are in Canadian dollars, are reviewed annually by the UBC Board of Governors, and are subject to change (typically 2% in May of each year).
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This program is offered by the Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education. Learn more about ECPS programs. |
