The program provides students with generic counseling skills which will qualify them as beginning professional counselors. Graduates are trained to assess problems, select appropriate intervention strategies, counsel clients, and consult with other professionals and administrators. All students complete a common core of courses plus additional courses specific to their chosen program. Included are courses in counseling theory, research, practicum, and internship.
Graduates gain generic counseling skills plus specialized knowledge about school counseling.
The program is designed to produce educationally oriented counselors with broadly based, multi-disciplinary backgrounds. Graduates are trained to counsel students, to consult with parents, teachers, and other school personnel and to coordinate the resources of the family, school, and the community to meet the developmental needs of students. This program is relatively broad in scope and focuses on the development of generic counseling skills that can be used with a wide range of clients in diverse settings. The program is designed to meet the basic requirements for licensure as a Mental Health Counselor in Florida.