Student Benefits

Students: Build a strong future as a Clinical Mental Health Counselor

AMHCA membership offers unparalleled benefits at a low student rate of $79 per year!

As you begin your career, you’ll find that your work is challenging and places many demands on you. One of the best ways to prepare yourself for your career is to join the American Mental Health Counselors Association (AMHCA). Supplement your curriculum with real-world, applied learning opportunities courtesy of your professional organization.

AMHCA exists to help you address all of your professional challenges. You need the benefits designed exclusively for you and offered only by AMHCA, the one association dedicated exclusively to the needs of clinical mental health counselors.

For answers to questions about the Graduate Student Committee and student activities, please contact a committee member.

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Why do students join AMHCA?

1. You are the future of the profession. The leaders and most successful clinical mental health counselors belong to AMHCA and use it to form strong professional relationships.
2. We are your lifelong career partner. Think back to when you first began your education as a clinical mental health counselor and all the things you have learned and done since then. AMHCA helps you transition into the next phase of your career.
3. It is the right thing to do for yourself – here’s why:

• Protect yourself: high-quality professional liability coverage is included with your AMHCA Student Membership.
• Keep public policy supporting you, your profession and your future clients with AMHCA's powerful advocacy initiatives.
• Continue your learning and growth with AMHCA’s continuing education choices—in print, online, and in person.
• Search for positions using our Job Board.
• Connect with your peers nationwide though the Graduate Student Committee and learn about student programs
• Build your professional network of students and practicing professionals and expand your knowledge at AMHCA’s Annual Conference – at reduced student rates.
• Reduce expenses with special member discounts on all AMHCA products and publications.

Get the news, information and knowledge you need to succeed with professional publications from AMHCA—included with your membership!

• Stay current with association and chapter news, legislative bulletins, licensure updates, practice advances, and research highlights in the Advocate—your exclusive monthly newsletter.
• Take away practical knowledge and illuminating background from in-depth research on clinical studies and counseling practice in the Journal of Mental Health Counseling—your exclusive quarterly journal delivered by mail and available online.
  

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Donald Mattson Award/Scholarship

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Want to write for the Advocate? Here's how!

The Student Corner is a 500-word feature that appears regularly in the Advocate. The chair and co-chair of the Graduate Student Committee write or assign the Student Corner article for each issue. If you have an idea you'd like to write about, or a topic you would like to see covered in Student Corner, please contact Kathleen McCarthy, Advocate editor.