The PhD program in Human Services

Learn more about the PhD in Human Services and what it can do for your career...

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Teachers educate our youth, farmers grow the food we need to nourish ourselves daily, city construction workers build roads so that we can travel where we need to go during the day.

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However, as these individuals are those we think about when contemplating these necessities of our society, we often fail to understand the leagues of highly educated groups of individuals in the shadows. We often forget about the extremely important individuals who are providing educators with curriculum that provide students with the information they need to succeed later in life, the individuals who are showing farmers a better, more efficient way of producing food for the world, and those who plan the development of roadways to reduce traffic and effectively provide infrastructure to local economies.

The human services industry is no different. PhD programs in Human services provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to be able to help become professional academics, researchers and teachers of theory that is necessary for the progress of counseling and human services fields.

What you will learn...

Specifically, a PhD program in Human Services will provide you with knowledge in the following areas:

PhD in Human Services Concepts

  • Contemporary & emerging issues in counseling
  • Human sexuality
  • Grief and bereavement counseling
  • Child and adolescent counseling
  • Geriatric mental health issues
  • Compulsive and addictive behavior
  • Psychopathology
  • Assessment & treatment
  • Theories of psychotherapy
  • Family dynamics
  • Group counseling
  • Mental health and aging
  • Research methodology
  • Intervention strategies
  • Administrative procedures
  • Social policy evaluation & development

PhD in Human Services Programs ...

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