Outcomes
KPI1 Counseling: Knowledge and skills for effective, evidence-based, culturally competent counseling.
Take responsibility for embodying and practicing professional and ethical standards at the degree of mastery by effectively demonstrating counseling skills including the ability to apply counseling theories and evidence-based methods, evaluate client progress, and demonstrate ethical and culturally competent counseling practice. Evidence of mastery requires a score of at least 2 on the measures identified in the accompanying grid.
KPI2 Supervision: Knowledge and skills for effective clinical supervision.
Take responsibility for developing a personal, ethical, research-based and culturally relevant identity as a supervisor by demonstrating knowledge of theories and models of clinical supervision and the skills necessary to provide effective clinical supervision.
KPI3 Teaching: Knowledge and skills relevant to effective teaching.
Take responsibility for training as counselor educators with expertise in the theory, research and practice of counseling as evidenced by demonstrating a knowledge of pedagogy and skills relevant to teaching including instructional development, implementation, and evaluation methods in counselor education.
KPI4 Research & Scholarship: Knowledge and skills necessary for effective research and scholarship.
We encourage students to support one another professionally in the task of becoming leaders who advance the counseling profession through research and innovation as evidenced by demonstrating the knowledge and skills necessary to engage in research and scholarship, including quantitative and qualitative research, that advanced the field of counseling, counselor education, and supervision.
KPI5 Leadership & Advocacy: Knowledge and skills for effective leadership and advocacy.
We encourage students to support one another as professionals in the task of becoming leaders who advance the counseling profession through service, innovation, and advocacy as evidenced by demonstration of sufficient knowledge and skills to be effective in advocacy and leadership in the counseling profession.
KPI 6 Crisis & Disaster Response: Knowledge and skills for effective crisis, emergency and disaster response.
We encourage students to embrace training as advanced practitioners with expertise in the theory, research and practice of counseling as it relates to crisis, emergency and disaster response as evidenced by demonstration of sufficient knowledge and skills of the impact of crisis and disaster on clients as well as knowledge and skill in responding to crisis and disasters clinically and systemically.
KPI 7 Key Professional Competencies and Dispositions:
Progress reviews include faculty evaluations of students’ Professional and Ethical Behavior and Academic Behavior. The specific domains are informed by counseling dispositions identified by our accrediting body and current research that define appropriate attitudes and capabilities that students bring to their counselor training.
