We are committed to cultivating immersive learning experiences provide students with the knowledge, skills and competence necessary to become effective, research-informed counselors and counselor educators who will positively impact the clients, students, communities, and systems locally and globally.
Objectives
Students will be able to:
Demonstrate knowledge within the eight core curriculum areas and a specialty area.
Demonstrate developmentally appropriate counseling skills in a minimum of four semesters.
Demonstrate personal growth throughout the program in relationships with peers, clients, supervisors, and faculty.
Demonstrate professional behavior including self-aware, ethical, responsible, life-long learner, self-efficacious, clinically competent, receptive to feedback, affirming of all individuals, committed to client welfare, collaborative, leader, and advocate.
Demonstrate leadership and advocacy for professional counseling through engagement in professional organizations specific to their population of interest.
Students will be able to:
Demonstrate developmentally appropriate counseling skills that sustain the cultural values, assets, and strengths of all individuals and people that seek mental health services.
Demonstrate effectiveness as a classroom teacher through organization of teaching activities, presentation of content, and interaction with students.
Demonstrate developmentally appropriate supervision skills through interactions with master’s students that reflect relevant application of supervision models, interventions, skills, and culturally responsive and ethical practices in individual/triadic and group modalities, as well as supervisee assessment and effective formal evaluations.
Demonstrate facility as researchers and scholars through development of research question(s) and appropriate application of qualitative and quantitative research designs and procedures.
Demonstrate self-awareness in relationships with peers, clients, supervisees, and faculty through openness to feedback, respect for other perspectives, and ownership of attitudes and areas of growth.
Demonstrate professional behavior including self-aware, ethical, responsible, life-long learner, self-efficacious, clinically competent, receptive to feedback, affirming of all individuals, committed to client welfare, collaborative, leader, and advocate.
Demonstrate knowledge of and capacity for leadership and advocacy in counseling through evaluation of leadership potential, knowledge of models and research, and application to leadership/advocacy practice.
department OF COUNSELING AND EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (CED)
