Nkumba University Master of Mental Health Counseling Psychology

Nkumba University Master of Mental Health Counseling Psychology

This programme embodies diverse community and institutional counselling as well as suicidiology.  Students who wish to work with families or with issues of substance abuse may take electives specific to those concerns. This is a two years programme and its structure is categorised into cores and electives as follows.

Core Course Units

Year 1 Semester I

Code Course Name LH PH CH CU

NUMAC51101 Theories of Counselling 45 00 45 03

NUMAC51102 Counselling Relationships and Skills 45 00 45 03

NUMAC51103 Student Affairs Practice 45 00 45 03

NUMAC51104 Tests and Measurements for Counsellors 45 00 45 03

Semester II

Code Course Name LH PH CH CU

NUMAC51201 Counselling Practicum 45 00 45 03

NUMAC51202 Professional Orientation in Counselling 45 00 45 03

NUMAC51203 Suicidology 45 00 45 03

NUMAC51204 Computer use in Counselling 45 00 45 03

Year 2 Semester I

Code Course Name LH PH CH CU

NUMAC51301 Consultation procedures in counselling 45 00 45 03

NUMAC51352 Internship: School 00 90 45 03

NUMAC51303 Internship: Community 00 90 45 03

NUMAC51304 Internship: Student Affairs 00 90 45 03

Semester II

Code Course Name LH PH CH CU

NUMAC52101 Cultural Contexts for Counselling 45 00 45 03

NUMAC52102 Research Methods 45 00 45 03

NUMAC52103 Dissertation Seminar 00 90 45 03

Electives

Code Course Name LH PH CH CU

NUMAC51211 Guidance for the classroom Teacher 45 00 45 03

NUMAC51212 Life Span Development 45 00 45 03

NUMAC51233 Career Guidance Information 45 00 45 03

NUMAC51214 The Counsellor in the Schools 45 00 45 03

NUMAC51205 Group Counselling 45 00 45 03

NUMAC51206 Substance Abuse Prevention 45 00 45 03

NUMAC51207 Substance Abuse Counselling 45 00 45 03

NUMAC51208 Tertiary/University students and Environments 45 00 45 03

NUMAC51209 Introduction to Family Therapy 45 00 45 03

NUMAC51311 Practicum in Marriage and Family Counselling 00 90 45 03

NUMAC51302 Special Topics in Counselling 45 00 45 03

NUMAC51313 Career Development Counselling 45 00 45 03

NUMAC51314 Pre-marital Counselling 45 00 45 03

NUMAC51305 Environmental Awareness Counselling 45 00 45 03

NUMAC51306 Facilitation of Students Development 45 00 45 03

NUMAC51307 Counselling Children and Adolescents 45 00 45 03

NUMAC51308 Gender related issues in Counselling 45 00 45 03

NUMAC51309 Community Counselling 45 00 45 03

NUMAC51210 Counselling Special Population: HIV/AIDS Clients 45 00 45 03

NUMAC51222 Special (Topic/s in Counselling: HIV/AIDS) 45 00 45 03

NUMAC51223 Psychology and Mental Health Counselling 45 00 45 03

NUMAC51204 Counselling Research and Evaluation Practicum 00 00 45 03