Communication Disorders and Counseling, School, and Educational Psychology
Counseling Area
Counseling Area Mission Statement
Scholarship in Action: Spanning Boundaries
MISSION STATEMENT
Develop counseling professionals to promote well-being, educate, and serve others.
VISION STATEMENT
The counseling area is a supportive and welcoming learning community committed to the preparation of competent entry and advanced level practitioners. Critical aspects of our programs are outreach and engagement within the broader community and experiential learning in a variety of contexts which include agencies, schools, and other settings where counselors provide professional services.
VALUES
- We value excellence in practice.
Responsive Actions:
- Recruit highly qualify individuals
- Facilitate experiential learning within a multitude of settings
- Emphasize academic rigor to include both coursework and field experiences
- Promote creative, critical and independent thinking
- Synthesize theory, research, and practice
- We value diversity.
Responsive Actions:
- Affirm the diversity of individuals, ideas, and expressions
- Promote authentic practice with diverse populations
- Demonstrate culturally competent practice
- We value professionalism.
Responsive Actions:
- Endorse and model a culture of professional behavior
- Embrace identity as complete professionals
- Demonstrate moral, ethical, and legal behavior