Prospective ◊ Career Options

The program in Counseling Psychology is dedicated to preparing counseling psychologists who facilitate culturally relevant and psychologically appropriate normal and optimal development across the lifespan of individuals, groups, and organizations/institutions.  Our students are taught to use strategies of prevention, intervention, and remediation to assist others in developing effective coping skills and responses to their environment.

At the end of their program, students in the Program are expected to have achieved the following objectives:

Objective 1: To prepare counseling psychologists who are capable of engaging in culturally-relevant and psychologically appropriate psychotherapeutic interventions.
 
Objective 2: To prepare counseling psychologists who are able to effectively integrate theory, research, and practice.

Objective 3: To prepare counseling psychologists who possess the requisite foundations in core areas of professional psychology.

Objective 4: To prepare counseling psychologists who are ethical scientist-practitioners.
 
Objective 5: To prepare counseling psychologists who demonstrate sensitivity and responsiveness to cultural diversity in research and practice and who demonstrate an understanding of persons in their environmental contexts, including cultural, social, educational, occupational, and institutional contexts.
 
Objective 6: To prepare counseling psychologists who are socialized into the profession and who hold attitudes relevant to lifelong learning, scholarly inquiry, and professional problem-solving in the context of an evolving body of professional knowledge.
 
Objective 7: To prepare counseling psychologists to work in a variety of professional practice settings.