Students will understand all aspects of functioning as a professional counselor including history, roles, organizational structures, ethics, standards, and credentials. The gains each student makes in the eight program common core areas are a function of the degree the student is pursuing. Students enrolled in the doctoral degree programs are expected to have a greater understanding of the issues in each of the program common core areas than candidates for the Masters degree. The understanding students have gained will be assessed by faculty in the classroom through course assignments and examinations and through the comprehensive, qualifying, and preliminary examination processes. Each of the emphasis areas within the Counselor Education program has objectives students are expected to achieve in addition to those in the eight core areas.
Students apply the principles of psychosocial rehabilitation and family counseling.
Students understand school, family, and other environmental factors affecting the development of the K-12 student. Students display specialized organizational and administrative skills related to school counseling. Students acquire counseling, coordination, and consultation knowledge and skills that may be effectively applied in the school. Objectives a. Students function effectively as certified rehabilitation counselors. Students understand the medical, psychological, and vocational effects of chronic disability as well as accommodations that may be made in the work place and community that promote integration of people with disabilities.