Welcome to the Department of Counseling and Human Services

Departmental News:

The Department of Counseling and Human Services has just been awarded a two-year $284,000.00 grant by the Texas Resources for Iraq-Afghanistan Deployment (TRIAD) Fund of the San  Antonio Area Foundation. The grant will fund two outreach  and referral assistantships and 26 paid internships to work in one of four sites. Click here to apply for the outreach and referral assistantships and click here to apply for an internship position.

For more information for the opportunities this grant affords our community and our students click here, or contact Dr. Dan Ratliff at 210-436-3226 or at dratliff@stmarytx.edu for more information.

Dr. Dana Comstock, Department Chair with Dr. Dan Ratliff, Grant Coordinator

St. Mary's University is gearing up to host the IV Interamericana Congress on Counseling which will be held in Managua, Nicaragua April 14th -18th, 2008. For a full conference brochure click here.

General Departmental Information:

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Welcome to the homepage for the Department of Counseling and Human Services! Our homepage is designed to meet the needs of current and prospective students and faculty members. 

We encourage all current students to regularly visit our "Announcements" page for up to date information on current departmental functions, employment opportunities, internship sites, and professional activities.

Click here to view or download the Counseling and Human Services Calendar of Events for Summer 2008.

We offer accredited master's degrees in Community Counseling, Mental Health Counseling, and Marriage and Family Therapy and doctoral degrees in Counselor Education and Supervision and Marriage and Family Therapy. Students in our progressive doctoral programs may choose a concentration in any of the following areas:

• Marriage and Family Therapy
  
• Neurofeedback
  
• Play Therapy
  
• Rehabilitation Counseling
  
• Relational-Cultural Theory and Social Justice
  

Please note that the Graduate Catalog for the 2006-2007 academic year does not reflect the latest revisions to our doctoral programs. For up-to-date information on our 68-hour doctoral degrees in Counselor Education and Supervision and Marriage and Family Therapy review "Program Information" under our Doctoral Degrees link.

For additional information, click on the following links to download brochures for our doctoral programs:

• Counselor Education and Supervision (pdf)
• Marriage and Family Therapy (pdf)
• To view a list of dissertations that have been completed over the past 9 years click here.

Accreditations

Our department has dual accreditation by both the CAOMFTE and CACREP.

The Master of Arts and Doctorate of Philosophy in Marriage and Family Therapy are accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE).

Our master's degrees in Community Counseling and Mental Health Counseling and our doctoral degree in Counselor Education and Supervision programs are accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP).

Doctoral Level Assistantships and Financial Assistance

Our Department has several types of assistantships that are available to full-time doctoral students. These positions are filled once a year in spring or early summer. The availability of positions and application instructions are posted on our Announcements Page. For information on the various types of assistantships click on the following:

• Research Assistantships
• Administrative Assistantships
• Recruitment Assistant

All faculty have a research assistant, we have one recruiter position and beginning fall of 2007 we will have two Administrative Positions. Each administrative position involves a 35 hour work week over nine months with a salary of $25,000.00.

In addition to these positions, our Department offers academic scholarships to doctoral applicants with outstanding academic indexes (see our Graduate School Catalog for admission criteria). These awards are in the amount of $10,000.00. Students may apply these to their tuition or take a cash award. It is possible to get an academic scholarship and to be hired for one of our many student positions. We encourage all interested doctoral applicants to seriously consider our Departmental financial support when making the decision about where to obtain your degree. 

Location

The Department of Counseling and Human Services is located on the third floor of Chaminade Tower on the St. Mary's University campus. For campus maps and driving directions please click here.