Master in Ehe- und Familienberatung

The Marriage and Family Counseling Program's mission is to help students acquire core competencies and specialized knowledge and skills necessary to perform marriage and family counseling effectively. Completing the program will assist graduates in making an application for licensure as a professional counselor (LPC) and National Counseling Certification. The program wishes to recruit students from diverse backgrounds who demonstrate character, maturity, scholarship, leadership, church/community involvement, and interest in the counseling profession. Students participating in the Marriage and Family Counseling Program receive training in the theories, models, and techniques of professional counseling with specialized preparation in work with couples and families, and other members of the behavioral healthcare and ministry teams in church, agency, hospital, and other marriage and family treatment settings. Students are expected to complete supervised clinical training in approved sites.

Nationally accredited since the middle of the last century, the Mississippi College School of Education has long been recognized for the quality of the graduates and the contributions they have made in Mississippi, the South, and throughout the United States.

The Mission of the School of Education is to provide a caring Christian environment that facilitates the acquisition of knowledge in the behavioral sciences, teaching and learning, and health and human sciences.