Learning Outcomes

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Program Learning Outcomes

Professional Orientation & Ethics 

• Demonstrate knowledge of multiculturally-competent ethical and legal considerations of professional counseling practices. 
• Engage in multiculturally-competent personal and professional self-evaluation practices aligned with ethical and legal standards of the counseling profession. 

Multicultural Counseling

• Demonstrate knowledge of multicultural counseling competencies.
• Demonstrate multicultural counseling competencies when working with diverse clients. 

Human Development Across The Lifespan 

• Demonstrate knowledge of biological, neurological, and physiological factors that affect human development, functioning, and behavior of diverse clients.   
• Apply ethical and multiculturally sensitive strategies for promoting resilience, optimal development, and wellness of diverse clients across the lifespan.   

Career Development

• Demonstrate knowledge of theories and models of career development, counseling, and decision-making.
• Apply ethical and multiculturally sensitive strategies for addressing career development with diverse clients.   

Helping Relationships

• Demonstrate knowledge of ethical and multiculturally sensitive theories and models of counseling that promote establishment and maintenance of helping relationships with diverse clients.   
• Apply ethical and multiculturally sensitive counseling theories and techniques to establish and maintain helping relationships with diverse clients.   

Group Counseling

• Demonstrate knowledge of group counseling theories, as well as ethical and multiculturally sensitive strategies for designing and facilitating counseling groups.
• Apply ethical and multiculturally sensitive strategies for designing and facilitating counseling groups.

Assessment & Appraisal

• Demonstrate knowledge of assessments appropriate for use in diagnostic and intervention planning with diverse clients.
• Apply ethical and multiculturally sensitive strategies for selecting, administering, and/or interpreting assessment and test results. 

Research Methods & Program Evaluation 

• Identify ethical and multiculturally sensitive research strategies for utilization in counseling practice and/or program evaluation.   
• Apply ethical and multiculturally sensitive strategies for conducting, interpreting, and/or reporting the results of research and/or program evaluation. 

 

Specialization-Specific Learning Outcomes

Clinical Mental Health Learning Outcomes 

• Identify ethical and multiculturally sensitive interventions for a broad range of mental health issues to meet the needs of diverse client populations. 
• Apply ethical and multiculturally sensitive interventions for a broad range of mental health issues to meet the needs of diverse client populations.  

School Counseling Learning Outcomes 

• Demonstrate knowledge of comprehensive school counseling program models that meet the needs of diverse student populations through delivery of ethical and multiculturally sensitive school counseling services.
• Provide ethical and multiculturally sensitive school counseling services according to comprehensive school counseling program models to meet the needs of diverse student populations. 

Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling Learning Outcomes 

• Identify roles, skills, and activities performed by rehabilitation counselors in a wide variety of circumstances within the clinical rehabilitation counseling context.
• Apply ethical and multiculturally sensitive strategies for rehabilitation counseling services and rehabilitation service delivery systems including case management.