Graduate Programs
Mission
The mission of the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Counseling Program is to develop responsive counselors through education, research, and service.
- Through education, the program prepares highly competent and skilled counseling professionals to work in agencies, schools, and communities.
- Through research, the program creates, applies, and disseminates innovative knowledge to improve the well-being of children, adolescents, adults, seniors, agencies, schools, and communities.
- Through service, the program provides leadership in professional and community organizations, training to professionals, and services to individuals, schools, and agencies in the community.
Vision
The Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»D Counseling Program seeks local, state, regional, national, and international prominence as a collaborative and transformative community engaged in exemplary research, education, and service that benefit the profession of counseling, the public it serves, and humanity at large.
Objectives
Through a curriculum grounded in social justice and service learning, graduates will gain exposure to diverse field-based experiences that assist them to develop foundational knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary for success in clinical mental health and school counseling settings. Specifically, graduates will:
- Demonstrate mastery of core counseling knowledge and skills necessary for licensure and certification as indicated by 80% of students earning a passing Total score on their Comprehensive Professional Counselor Exam (CPCE).
- Engage in a process of personal and professional reflection that allows them to identify a guiding theory of counseling that will serve as a foundation for counseling as indicated by 80% of students earning an 80% or better on their COUN 5690 Practicum Case Presentation theory section.
- Develop and maintain effective, culturally responsive counseling relationships as indicated by 80% of students earning an 80% or better on their COUN 5721 Case Conceptualization diversity section.
- Cultivate ethical and legal disposition to counseling practice as indicated by 80% of students earning an 80% or better on their COUN 5720 Case Conceptualization ethics section.
- Demonstrate social justice advocacy and leadership skills in counseling practice as indicated by 80% of students earning an 80% or better on their COUN 5100 Group Professional Advocacy project.
- Develop, manage, and evaluate counseling services and programs as indicated by 80% of CMHC students earning an 80% or better on their COUN 5300 Organizational Leadership and Advanced Clinical Mental Health Program Agency Case Study Presentation and 80% of School Counseling students earning an 80% or better on their COUN 5341 Advanced School Counseling Accountability Project.