Master of Science in Psychology with an Emphasis in Life Coaching
Overview
The Psychology of Personal Growth and Development
Grand Canyon University's Master of Science in Psychology with an Emphasis in Life Coaching degree helps you use your background knowledge in psychology, sociology and counseling to help others achieve their goals and maximize their own potential in life. This emerging College of Humanities and Social Science program is ideal for anyone interested in a new career through an advanced degree, or who desires additional, focused education beyond a master's in psychology, sociology, counseling or communications.
Techniques and methods learned can immediately help others maximize their time, talents and interests through mentoring and coaching. Strong emphases are placed on cognition, motivation, psychology, leadership theory, communication, data analysis and responses to psychology and sociology.
Degree Outcomes
Help Peers Reach their Vast Potential
The life coaching degree program encourages you to explore advanced cognitive theory, observe individuals inside or outside organizations, formulate recommendations based on feedback and ultimately implement efficient, ethical coaching strategies. Applying both individual and organizational improvement tactics can enhance your own understanding of others' needs and motivations. It also offers a more objective perspective in recommending changes to others’ goals, patterns and cognitive processes.
A capstone project concludes the master's in psychology with an emphasis in life coaching program to help you put together your learned concepts and strategies. Exploring issues, trends and people's experiences and successes in their respective fields can help your project topic of choice in assessing strengths and weakness, and making subsequent recommendations for improvement.
What You Will Learn
Enhance Cognition and Motivation
As part of this program, you study:
- Comparisons between coaching, psychology, cognition and counseling
- Coaching techniques and skills for individuals and organizations
- Creating and interpreting assessments
- Ethics
- Research and statistics
Career Outcomes
Entrepreneurial and Organizational Careers
Diverse populations of individuals, groups and professional organizations solicit the growing field of life coaching for themselves and employees. With a life coaching degree, you can work as an entrepreneur within a private, government or educational organization. Or, expose yourself to a variety of peer occupations that need your services: entrepreneurs interested in building a business, individuals contemplating changing careers and people or whole organizations in search of better life balance.
Course List
Program Core Courses
Course Description
This course is designed to prepare students for the graduate learning experience at Grand Canyon University. Students have opportunities to develop and strengthen the skills necessary to succeed as graduate students in the liberal arts. Emphasis is placed on utilizing the tools for graduate success.
Course Description
This course serves as the foundation for advanced graduate study in the field of psychology. Professional skill development, such as critical thinking, scholarly writing, and literature reviewing are covered, as well as contemporary ethical issues in the field of psychology, including issues in research, writing, psychotherapy, forensic psychology, and animal research.
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This course is a study of social, group, and multicultural factors affecting individual behavior. Attention is given to the development of attitudes, leadership roles, group thinking, sources of conflict, altruism, attraction, effects of competition and cooperation, analysis and evaluation of propaganda techniques, and the influence of mass communication on social awareness and control.
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This course covers the differences and similarities between coaching and other social services fields, such as counseling, psychology, or social work. Students learn the principle theories influencing the field of coaching as well as fundamental coaching skill.
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This course provides a deeper look into coaching for individuals. It covers skills, models, and techniques specific to working with individuals and competencies of coaching. Students learn the basics of developing a professional coaching plan and niche development.
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This course provides a study of theories of probability, descriptive and inferential analyses of data, and testing of statistical hypotheses. Practical experience is provided in the application of statistical methods.
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This course emphasizes both the theoretical and applied aspects of experimental design and research methodology at the graduate level, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed designs.
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This course provides an overview of executive coaching provided within the business/organization as well as the ethical considerations specific to this field.
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This course provides an overview of assessments commonly used in the coaching field. Students will develop an understanding of administration and interpretation of assessments as well as how to provide professional feedback relevant for real life application.
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This course prepares students to enter their prospective career and/or continue their education in psychology. Students will explore occupations and leaders in the various psychological fields, formulate and compile their experiences and achievements, and construct a roadmap for success. Original research ideas will be solidified and presented.
Program Locations
Online
Evening
* The Department of Education defines how an institution must calculate a program's On-Time Completion rate for federal disclosure purposes. The On-Time Completion rate is based on a program’s published required number of months to complete all degree requirements as provided in the institution’s catalog. Completion statistics are updated every January and are based on the cohort of students who graduated between 7/1 – 6/30 of the preceding year. The On-Time Completion rate is determined by the number of students in the cohort who completed the program within the published program length divided by the number of students in the cohort who graduated.
Online and Evening program disclosures (20 month program)* Please refer to the Academic Catalog for more information. Program subject to change.