{"id":2010,"date":"2012-01-11T16:32:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T21:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-staging.bumc.bu.edu\/mhbm-bfenster\/?page_id=2010"},"modified":"2020-08-07T15:44:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T19:44:50","slug":"professional-organizations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/mhcbm\/current-students\/professional-organizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional Organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gms\/files\/2012\/01\/MED_2228a-copy-1-636x225.jpg\" alt=\"student presenting research\" width=\"899\" height=\"318\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-54411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/files\/2012\/01\/MED_2228a-copy-1-636x225.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/files\/2012\/01\/MED_2228a-copy-1-768x272.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/files\/2012\/01\/MED_2228a-copy-1-1024x362.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/files\/2012\/01\/MED_2228a-copy-1.jpg 1130w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 899px) 100vw, 899px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition to Program requirements, students are encouraged begin their professional careers by joining professional organizations and participating in local, regional and national meetings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>American Mental Health Counselors Association<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amhca.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Mental Health Counselors Association<\/a> serves the needs of mental health counselors and plays a significant role in any legislation affecting provider recognition in the mental health field.\u00a0 For example, AMHCA\u2018s influence helped Licensed Professional Counselors become eligible as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcc.org\/GovtAffairs\/MilitaryHealth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Army Substance Abuse Practitioners<\/a>.\u00a0 AMHCA has a superb annual conference where members\u00a0\u00a0network along with expanding their professional knowledge.\u00a0 Locally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mamhca.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MAMHCA<\/a> offers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a yearly job fair<\/li>\n<li>license preparation<\/li>\n<li>supervision workshops<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>American Counseling Association<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counseling.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Counseling Association<\/a> is another organization that students join.\u00a0 Their mission is to build a more diverse and inclusive counseling community.\u00a0 They have an extensive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counseling.org\/careers\/aca-career-central\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">job listing<\/a> and provide many opportunities for students to make presentations or provide poster sessions at regional or national meetings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>American Association of State Counseling Boards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The program and its faculty are active members of AASCB (American Association of State Counseling Boards).\u00a0 This provides the faculty the opportunity to interact with those Board members who license our graduates. Any issues or potential problems can be discussed and often resolved.\u00a0 This Board is trying to address the very difficult challenges of license reciprocity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to Program requirements, students are encouraged begin their professional careers by joining professional organizations and participating in local, regional and national meetings. American Mental Health Counselors Association The American Mental Health Counselors Association serves the needs of mental health counselors and plays a significant role in any legislation affecting provider recognition in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2496,"featured_media":0,"parent":1566,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74198,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2010\/revisions\/74198"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}