Overview:
This online NCE exam prep CE course is a 4-day training series. With two hours for each session, for a total of eight hours, this boot camp will prepare mental health professionals to pass the National Counselor Examination (NCE). The duration of this exam is 4 hours in which you’re required to answer 200 multiple choice questions (MCQs).
Studying for this lengthy test can be quite overwhelming, especially with the overload of knowledge available. This is where our team comes in. At eCare Behavioral Institute, we provide comprehensive NCE exam prep to help prospective counselors pass the exam. Each day there will be a practice test that Janelle Bettis-Cox will go through and help you analyze the questions and choose the right answer. It also includes inspirational elements, a review of study skills, and support to assist participants to have successful results!
The NCE Bootcamp will cover the eight CACREP domains on which the examination questions are based. The following is the schedule and content that will be covered. Please note key concepts from the domain will be covered to keep within the timeframe.
FIVE WORKING BEHAVIORAL AREAS
- Assessment
- Fundamental Counseling Issues
- Diagnostic and Assessment Services
- Professional Practice
- Professional Development Supervision and Consultation
Outline:
Session One:
- Professional Counseling Orientation and Ethical Practice — Professional functioning (history, roles, organizational structures, ethics, standards, and credentialing).
- Social and Cultural Diversity — Issues and trends in a multicultural and diverse society.
Session Two:
- Counseling and Helping Relationships — Understanding of counseling and consultation processes.
- Career Counseling — Career development.
- Fundamental Counseling Issues.
- Diagnostic and Assessment Services.
Session Three:
- Human Growth and Development — Nature and needs of individuals across the lifespan.
- Assessment and Testing — Individual and group approaches to assessment and evaluation.
- Professional Development Supervision and Consultation.
Session Four:
- Group Counseling and Group Workgroup — Development, dynamics, counseling theories, group counseling methods and skills, and other group work approaches.
- Research and Program Evaluation — Types of research methods, basic statistics, and ethical and legal considerations in research.
Objectives:
- Assess study skills and plan for improvement.
- Practice time-management techniques for successful studying.
- Improve test performance.
- Enable individual clinicians to develop knowledge and competence in the field of mental health.
Course materials are only available to enrolled students.
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Dr. Janelle Cox, LCPC, ACS, NCC
Dr. Janelle Bettis is an Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator in the Mental Health Counseling Program at Bowie State University. She is also a Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC), Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS), Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC), and Board Approved Clinical Supervisor in the State of Maryland. Dr. Bettis obtained her Masters of Arts in Community Counseling and Doctorate of Education in Counselor Education and Supervision from Argosy University, Northern Virginia. Dr. Bettis has experience working with children, adolescents and adults with a myriad of diagnoses such as bipolar, depression, anxiety, ODD, ADHD. Dr. Bettis has worked in a variety of settings such as school, in home, clinic and within the community. Research interests include home-based counseling, social justice/advocacy, clinical supervision, public policy/legislation, counselors-in-training, community mental health, African American women’s issues, qualitative research methods. Dr. Bettis currently serves as Co-Chair of the Emerging Leaders Program and Webinar Committee for Southern Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (SACES), and Committee Member of the ACA Public Policy Committee.
National Approvals
eCare BHI, as the accredited and approved sponsor, maintains responsibility for all the programs and must abide by each board’s continuing education guidelines.

Professional Counselors — The National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)
E Care Behavioral Health Institute has been approved by NBCC as an approved Continuing Education Provider. ACEP No. 6703. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC are clearly identified. E care Behavioral Health Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Addiction Professionals — NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals (NAADAC)
E Care Behavioral Health Institute is officially on file with NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals (NAADAC) as an Approved Education Provider. They are formally known as NAADAC Provider #139138. Please note that E care Behavioral Health Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.

Social Workers — Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
E Care Behavioral Health Institute, #1706, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. E Care Behavioral Health Institute maintains responsibility for this course.  ACE provider approval period: 06-03-2020 – 06-03-2026.Â

CE Broker
CE Broker is a continuing education tracking system in which licensees track their compliance and report their completed CE hours credit (CE Broker Tracking #50-33336)
State Approvals
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- Nevada CPC’s and MFT’s accept ASWB-approved training
- North Dakota Board Of Counselor Examiners LAPC and LAPCS accept ASWB approved training
- Rhode Island Board of Mental Health Counselors and Marriage & Family Therapists MHC’s accept ASWB approved training
- Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council LPC and LPCS accept ASWB approved training
- Utah Division of Professional Licensing – CMHC’s accept ASWB approved training
- Washington State Department of Mental Health MHC’s accept ASWB approved training
- Wisconsin Council on Mental Health LPCS accepts ASWB-approved training
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