Michigan names its approved counseling exams in the state’s administrative code. Rule 338.1773 adopts the National Clinical Mental Health Counseling Examination (NCMHCE), the NCE and the rehabilitation counselor exam (CRC), with the NCMHCE passing score set by NBCC. Supervised experience, 3,000 hours for master’s graduates, starts only once you hold a limited licence and runs until the full LPC is issued.
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Yes. Michigan’s counseling rules approve and adopt three exams — the NCE, the Certified Rehabilitation Counselor Examination and the NCMHCE — and an applicant must show a passing score on one of them. For the NCMHCE, the passing score is the one NBCC establishes.
How many supervised hours does Michigan require?
With a master’s degree, at least 3,000 hours over no less than two years, including at least 100 hours of regularly scheduled supervision, given in person or by two-way real-time audiovisual technology. The rules do not state a separate direct-client-hours figure.
Is the requirement different with a doctorate?
Yes. An applicant with a doctoral degree needs at least 1,500 hours over no less than one year, with at least 50 hours of regularly scheduled supervision.
When does the supervised experience start?
When the limited licence is issued. The rules state that supervision begins on issuance of the limited license and continues until the licensed professional counselor license is issued, so hours gained before then do not count toward the requirement.
What degree does Michigan require?
A CACREP-accredited program, or otherwise a graduate counseling program of at least 60 semester hours (90 quarter hours) for students who entered on or after July 1, 2023. Students who entered on or before June 30, 2023 need at least 48 semester hours (72 quarter hours).
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Question 1
Weighing everything Nikhil has described, which provisional diagnosis is best supported, and on what grounds?
▸ Why C is the answer
The core picture meets obsessive-compulsive disorder cleanly. He has obsessions, recurrent unwanted intrusive images, and compulsions, the cancelling phrase, checking, and avoidance he uses to neutralize them. They are time-consuming at three to four hours a day and cause marked distress and impairment, and he recognizes them as senseless. That is the diagnosis the whole presentation is built around.
Question 2
The images involve his infant, and you must address risk responsibly. Given how Nikhil describes these thoughts, how do you best assess risk here?
▸ Why D is the answer
Sound risk assessment means actually asking, not assuming. You question him directly about any intent, urge, or wish to act, how the thoughts feel to him, and what he does when they come. Unwanted, ego-dystonic images that he resists and is horrified by point strongly away from intent, and asking plainly usually relieves rather than inflames. This gathers the real risk picture while treating the thoughts as what they are.
Question 3
Nikhil asks, 'What if you have to report me?' Regarding confidentiality and its limits, what is most important for him to understand?
▸ Why A is the answer
He deserves an accurate account of exactly where the limits fall. Mandated reporting turns on actual abuse or neglect, and a duty to protect turns on a serious, imminent threat with intent. Unwanted obsessional thoughts, with no act and no intent, are neither. Saying this plainly both tells him the truth and frees him to disclose what he has been terrified to say.
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