CMHC Capstone Seminar

Catalog description

The Antioch University Clinical Mental Health Counseling program’s Capstone Project is a culmination and synthesis of the student’s knowledge, experience, skills, and growth during the three year educational and clinical process and serves as a transition from the role of student to that of professional. Within a community of practice model, students will select a topic relevant to their current and anticipated clinical area of practice. The student will focus on Clinical Practice, Research, or Advocacy, with seminar leaders dedicated to each of these areas. Over the course of the semester, students will work under the mentorship of program faculty to develop a capstone focus, engage in a scholarly review of the current literature, apply the knowledge through an individualized application project (integrating the content and clinical expertise through a lens of social justice), and develop a portfolio demonstrating competency in an integration of content, experience, and their personal counselor identity. The seminar- style course will provide students with the faculty guidance and peer support to develop an individualized project fusing their course-based and clinical learning, academic research, and field experience into a finished portfolio work that they will present in a formal symposium prior to program graduation.