Our School and Youth Concentration Master’s programs will prepare you to lead social change by providing therapeutic services to youth in underserved communities.
You’ll gain real-world experience helping these children, adolescents and their families overcome systemic inequalities and hardships to live better, more meaningful lives.
Program Highlights
- Gain real-world experience in the heart of Vancouver
- Graduate in 2 years of full-time study
- Faculty mentors are active practitioners and experienced advocates for better mental health
- Smaller school offering a more intimate experience
- Aligns with the requirements of the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors and the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association
Choose Your Program
Master of Counselling Psychology: School & Youth Concentration
This two-year, 55-credit master’s is a non-thesis, practitioner-based program. It features a social justice-centric approach with a distinct program concentration compared to other degrees in the market, offering a rare set of skills and insight into the minds of children and adolescents. It also serves as a uniquely designed alternative for teachers considering a Master of Education.
Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology: School & Youth Concentration
This two-year, 59-credit, thesis-based program is designed primarily for those who wish to pursue a doctoral degree program sometime in the future. Drawing from a curriculum that features adolescent and child development, as well as play therapy, students practice with adolescents as part of a community-based pre-practicum skills lab.
Program Experience
Our curriculum immerses you in dynamic professional settings, including two intensive practicum experiences. The first is a non-clinical social justice practicum during which you work with our robust network of community partners. And the second is a hands-on counselling and clinical practicum.
Graduates from this program will be ready to counsel children and adolescents by focusing on equality, inclusion and a socially responsible practice by providing counselling within schools, correctional programs, youth outreach programs and other clinical contexts.
Coursework:
Courses for the Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology: School & Youth Concentration include:
- Biopsychosocial Bases of Health
- School Counselling and Consultation
- Multicultural Counselling for Diverse Populations
- Structural and Sociocultural Bases of Health & Dysfunction
- Child Development and Counselling
- Trauma Theory and Practice
Courses for the Master of Counselling Psychology: School & Youth Concentration include:
- School Counselling and Consultation
- Adolescent Development and Counselling
- Effective Couple and Family Counselling
- Research in Counselling Psychology
- Pre-practicum Counselling Skills Community-based Lab
- Social Justice Practicum I and II
Get a complete list of courses and a more detailed degree plan: CONTACT ADMISSIONS