Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 30 - Professions and Occupations › Part 2201 - Licensed Professional Counselors, Board of Examiners of › Chapter 4 - Licensure Requirements › Rule 30-2201-4.2 - Requirements to Become a Provisional-Licensed Professional Counselor (P-LPC)

Current through June 25, 2024
A. A P-LPC license
				will be issued once all of the following are completed and approved by the
				Board: Application, general requirements, Official Transcript(s), Background
				check, Verification of a passing score on the Jurisprudence Exam, Online
				Supervision agreement, Supervision Contract, and Declaration of
				Practices.
B.
Education
				Requirements:
The following is a list of education requirements that all
				  Applicants must meet in order to be licensed:
Either sixty (60) semester hours or ninety (90) quarter hours
				  of graduate study.
For degrees conferred after January 1, 2017, the Board will
				  only accept sixty (60) semester hours or ninety (90) quarter-hour master's
				  degree programs. Those programs shall be either
1. CACREP degree programs or degree programs
				with the word counseling in its title and meet the structure of CACREP as it
				specifically pertains to the twelve (12) courses specified, as part of sixty
				(60) semester hours or ninety (90) quarter hours that are required for
				completion of the degree or
2. An
				earned doctoral or educational specialist degree primarily in a counseling,
				guidance, or related field, which meets similar standards as specified
				above.
Please note that all references to hours of college credit
				  are for semester hours. Quarter hours may be converted to semester hours using
				  the standard formula (Number of quarter hours X .67 = Semester hour
				  equivalent). Semester hours must total sixty (60) hours.
A graduate program related to counselor education is defined
				  as one that contains course work in all of the following areas. Each Applicant
				  must have completed a three (3) hour semester course or its equivalent in each
				  of the following areas:
1. Human
				Growth and Development - Course work includes studies that provide a broad
				understanding of the nature and needs of individuals at all levels of
				development, normal and abnormal human behavior, personality theory, life-span
				theory, and learning theory within cultural contexts. Emphasis is placed on
				psychological approaches used to explain, predict, and modify human
				behavior.
2. Social and Cultural
				Foundations - Course work includes studies that provide a broad understanding
				of societal changes and trends in human roles, societal subgroups, social
				mores, interaction patterns, and multicultural and pluralistic trends in
				differing lifestyles, and major societal concerns including stress, person
				abuse, substance abuse, discrimination, and methods for alleviating these
				concerns.
3. Counseling and
				Psychotherapy Skills - Course work includes studies that provide a broad
				understanding of philosophic bases of helping processes, counseling theories
				and their applications, basic and advanced helping skills, consultation
				theories and their application, client and helper self-understanding and
				self-development, and facilitation of client or consultee change.
4. Group Counseling - Course work includes
				studies that provide a broad understanding of group development, dynamics, and
				counseling theories; group leadership styles; basic and advanced group
				counseling methods and skills; and other group approaches.
5. Lifestyle and Career Development - Course
				work includes studies that provide a broad understanding of career development
				theories; occupational and educational information sources and systems; career
				and leisure counseling guidance and education; lifestyle and career
				decision-making; career development program planning resources and
				effectiveness evaluation.
6.
				Testing and Appraisal - Course work includes studies that provide a broad
				understanding of group and individual educational and psychometric theories and
				approaches to appraisal, data, and information gathering methods, validity and
				reliability, psychometric statistics, factors, influencing appraisals, and use
				of appraisal results in helping process. Additionally, the specific ability to
				administer and interpret tests and inventories to assess interests and
				abilities and to identify career options is important.
7. Research and Evaluation - Course work
				includes studies that provide a broad understanding of different types of
				research, basic statistics, research-report development, research
				implementation, program evaluation needs assessment, publication of research
				information, and legal considerations.
8. Professional Orientation to Counseling or
				Ethics - Course work includes studies that provide a broad understanding of
				professional roles and functions of counselors, professional goals and
				objectives, professional counseling organizations and associations,
				professional history and trends, ethical and legal standards, professional
				standards, and professional credentialing.
9. Theories of Counseling Psychotherapy and
				Personality - Course work includes studies in basic theories, principles and
				techniques of counseling, and their application to professional counseling
				settings.
10. Marriage and/or
				Family Counseling/Therapy - Course work includes studies that provide a broad
				understanding of marriage and family theories and approaches to counseling with
				families and couples. This includes appraisal of family and couples systems and
				the application of these to counseling families and/or couples in premarriage,
				marriage and/or divorce situations.
11. Abnormal Psychology and Psychopathology -
				Course work includes studies that provide a broad understanding of individuals'
				current mental/emotional states consistent with accepted classifications such
				as those provided in the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical
				Manual of Mental Disorders, as published by the American Psychiatric
				Association; and the most recent edition of the ICD and the development of
				planned, diagnostic - relevant interventions, including the goals of
				counseling, methods of treatment, and means of monitoring progress.
12. Internship - Supervised, planned,
				practical, advanced experience obtained in a clinical setting observing and
				applying principles, methods, and techniques learned in training and/or
				educational settings.