Student Benefits

Students: Build a strong future as a Mental Health Counselor

AMHCA membership offers unparalleled benefits at a low student rate of $60 per year!

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As you complete your education and begin your career, there are a few resources you shouldn't go without. One of the very best decisions you can make in the early stages of your professional life is to join the American Mental Health Counselors Association (AMHCA).

Why do students join AMHCA?

1. You are the future of the profession. The leaders and most successful mental health counselors belong to AMHCA and use it to form strong professional relationship.
2. We are your lifelong career partner. Think back to when you first become a mental health counselor, and all the things you have learned and done since then.
3. It is the right thing to do for yourself.
   What can you gain by being a member of AMHCA?

• Gain access to our affordable malpractice insurance coverage. Protect yourself against malpractice for only $25 per year with AMHCA's exclusive professional liability protection plan.
• Keep public policy supporting you, your profession and your future clients with AMHCA's powerful advocacy initiatives!
• Professional development
• Search for positions using our Job Board at www.amhca.org.
• Be connected with Graduate Student Committee
• Read recent articles submitted by your peers, Graduate Students in the counseling field. Click here to access the online The Advocate Student Corner.
• A nationwide network of students and practicing professionals and unique opportunities to meet and interact with peers.
• Save money with discounted registration with to AMHCA's annual conference
• Low "members-only" discounts on all products and publications.
• Online and print resources: research, clinical studies, critical guidance for counseling practice Click here to learn more about Donald Mattson Award/Scholarship.
• Publications: e-News from Washington, the Advocate newsletter. Access here the online Journal of Mental Health Counseling.

Take the right first step in your career as a mental health counselor. At AMHCA, we exist to help you address all of your professional challenges. One way to prepare for "the real world" is to join AMHCA!

Donald Mattson Award/Scholarship
Are you an outstanding graduate student, or do you know someone who is?

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Want to write for The Advocate? Here's how! The Student Corner feature is a 500-word department 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, contact Jason Stout, 2007-08 chair of the Graduate Student Committee, at jstout6@radford.edu.

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